RAMALLAH, Nov 29 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned against the Israeli government’s plan, to legalise dozens of “illegal settlement outposts” built in the West Bank.
In an official report sent to the press, the PLO’s National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements noted that, Israel aims to seize and control more lands in the West Bank, referring to the remarks of Israeli Minister of Settlement Affairs, Tzachi Hanegbi.
“Israel tries to use the remaining period in the administration of (U.S. President) Trump, to expand its settlements, to annex larger areas of the West Bank, and to impose facts on the ground,” the report said.
According to the PLO’s report, about 124 Israeli settlement outposts have been built in the West Bank, since the 1990’s without any official Israeli approval.
Palestinian rights groups said, about 700,000 settlers have been living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967.
The Israeli settlements, built on Palestinian territories, are regarded as illegal by the international community. However in 2019, U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced that Washington no longer considered Israeli settlements as inconsistent with international law.
