The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned what was reported by Israeli media regarding a settlement plan aimed at increasing the number of settlers in the occupied West Bank, to reach one million settlers, in light of an Israeli agreement between several Israeli ministries, especially transportation, and the so-called “heads of settlement councils.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement today, Friday, that the plan is being implemented through a wide network of settlement roads that devour more of the lands of Palestinian citizens, in conjunction with the legalization of dozens of random settlement outposts, and in light of inflammatory incentives and propaganda, to encourage more Israelis to become residents Inside the settlements in the West Bank.

She added that a number of extremist Israeli occupation government ministers brag about their adoption and public support for settlement, and their allocation of hundreds of millions of shekels to finance, strengthen and expand it, at the expense of the land of the State of Palestine. They also brag about their agreement to undermine any opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Ministry warned of the danger of the result of the escalation in settlements in all its forms, considering it an Israeli race against time, to complete the episodes of gradual, declared and undeclared annexation of the West Bank, and impose Israeli law on it.

It stressed that the intensification of settlement in light of international and American calls to stop it, and in light of international demands to stop Israel’s unilateral measures, reveals the lack of seriousness of these positions, in terms of their remaining within the framework of media consumption, and their lack of connection to any practical actions and measures that pressure the occupation authorities to force them to stop settlement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that these positions are a reflection of double standards that violate international law and thwart its binding applications on the situation in occupied Palestine. This enables the occupation authorities to coexist with this low ceiling of international reactions, encourages them to implement more expansionist colonial plans, and pushes them to deepen episodes of apartheid as a direct result of this protracted occupation, giving it sufficient time to settle more settlers in the land of the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem.