Foreign Ministry and Expatriates: Urges the International Community and Countries to Assume Their Responsibilities in Stopping the Implementation of the E1 Colonial Project

SadaNews - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates warned of the dangers arising from any Israeli steps to resume work on the settlement project known as E1, as announced by the so-called "Higher Planning Council and Civil Administration." This includes the construction of more than 3000 new housing units east of Jerusalem, which would mean permanently entrenching the separation of parts of the West Bank from one another and deepening the separation of Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings on all sides, linking it with Israeli territory.

The ministry asserted that the implementation of this project poses a serious and grave threat to the opportunity to apply the two-state solution principle and to the possibility of achieving peace between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. 

The ministry stated that it is following this serious issue with components of the international community and all countries, urging the United Nations, especially the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities in pressing the occupying state to cease its implementation immediately. It also calls on all countries to take responsibility in this regard, especially those that claim to uphold the two-state solution and to achieve peace.