International criticism of Israel after announcing the establishment of 22 settlements news

I criticize United Nations Britain and Jordan declared Israel to establish 22 settlements in the West Bank, and it promised it a step that hinders the two -state solution and an obstacle to achieving peace in the region.

The United Nations Secretary -General Stephen Dujarric confirmed today, Thursday, that the announcement of Israel establishing new settlements in the occupied West Bank “takes us in the wrong direction regarding The two -state solution“.

“We oppose any expansion of settlement activity,” Dujarric said, recalling the demand of the Secretary -General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres Repeated to Israel by “stopping all illegal settlement activities” in the Palestinian territories, which “constitutes an obstacle to peace.”

Israel announced Thursday that it would establish 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A statement issued by the Likud party, the ruling in Israel, said that the decision includes the establishment of 4 new settlements along the eastern border with Jordan, in the context of strengthening the Israeli position on the eastern front, national security, and strategic control of the region.

He revealed that the Minister of Defense Israel Katz The Minister of Finance in Salail Smotrich are the ones who led this decision.

Katz said that this step will change the face of the region, and draw the future of settlement for years, while Smotrich described the decision as a great day for settlement, and an important day for Israel.

He added that Israel succeeded in making a deep strategic change, and returning to the construction path, considering that the next step is to impose sovereignty.

Before this announcement, the UN envoy to the Middle East, Sigrid Kag, expressed concern about the future of the two -state solution.

She said during a meeting For the UN Security Council “The West Bank is on a dangerous path. Developments can be described as an acceleration of a de facto process, by expanding settlements, confiscating lands and practicing settlers of violence.”

She warned that not changing this situation would make the two -state solution “impossible on Earth.”

Britain condemns

In the same context, the British Minister of State for Middle East, Hamish Walconer, considered that Israel’s approval to build 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank constitute a “deliberate obstacle in the way of establishing a Palestinian state.”

On the “X” platform that his country “condemns these moves, the settlements are illegal under international law, and the two -state solution is subjected to the danger in an additional way and does not protect Israel.”

Jordan also condemned the announcement of the Israeli extremist Minister of Finance Smotrich Establishing 22 new settlements in West Bank The occupied, stressing that “there is no sovereignty for Israel on the occupied Palestinian soil” and that its decisions are “illegal.”

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in a statement “in the” strongest terms “, Smotrich’s announcement, considering that it was” a clear promise to infringe on the unusual right of the Palestinian people in the embodiment of their sovereign independent state on June 4, 1967 and its capital occupied Jerusalem. “

“All Israeli measures and decisions in the West Bank are illegal and illegal, and that there is no sovereignty for Israel on the occupied Palestinian soil,” the ministry’s spokesman, Sufyan Al -Qudah, said.

The judges urged the international community to “obligate Israel, the existing force of the occupation, to stop its aggression against Gaza and its dangerous escalation in the occupied West Bank.”

It was East Jerusalem Also, all the cities of the West Bank are subject to the Jordanian administration before Israel occupied it in 1967.

Smootic wrote on X platform “We made a historic decision to develop Settlement: 22 new settlement gatherings in Judea and Samaria (the biblical name of the West Bank), intensifying settlement in northern Samaria and strengthening the eastern axis of the State of Israel. “

He pointed out that the next step will be the imposition of Israeli “sovereignty” on the West Bank occupied by Israel in 1967.

This declaration would hold the tense relations already between Israel And the international community Who does not recognize illegal settlements under International law.

The international community affirms that the settlements represent the most prominent obstacles to achieving a permanent peaceful solution between Israel and the Palestinians, as it undermines the possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state in the future.