The Government of Spain has “strongly” condemned the announcement by Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich in regards to the new confiscation of land within the Palestinian territories mentioning that Israeli settlements are an “obstacle to peace.”
This was said by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in a assertion wherein it said that this announcement was “flagrantly opposite to worldwide regulation, exacerbates regional pressure and complicates worldwide efforts to transfer towards a ceasefire.”
Likewise, Spain considers that Israeli settlements within the occupied territories represent a “violation of worldwide regulation and an obstacle to peace”.
The European Union has additionally denounced this Sunday that Israel has carried out this previous Friday the most important appropriation of occupied territory recognized because the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, a resolution that the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrellhas “firmly” condemned the direct contravention of worldwide humanitarian regulation.
The announcement was made by the Israeli Finance Minister, who declaredor “state lands” 800 hectares in occupied West Bank territory, particularly within the north of the Jordan Valley, with the intention of annexing them to the close by Jewish settlement of Yafit.
