Ramallah: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the statements made by extremist far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, particularly his provocative calls to deepen colonialism and annex the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the Ministry stated that these calls pose a continuous and direct threat to the realization of a Palestinian state, based on the two-state solution. It added that Smotrich's statements represent public incitement against the Palestinian National Authority and the rights of Palestinian people in their homeland.
In a statement issued today, the Ministry described these statements as part of a series of provocative calls made by multiple Israeli officials. These calls are considered to fall within the framework of committing further crimes of colonialism, annexation, genocide, and displacement of Palestinian people.
The Ministry highlighted the recent seizure of 455 dunums of land in the Nablus and Qalqilya governorates, a house in Hebron, the old Hebron municipality building, and a school, alongside ongoing demolition activities.
The Ministry affirmed that all illegal unilateral measures and plans by the occupation to alter the historical, political, and legal status quo in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, will not establish a legitimate occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The statement concluded with a call for the international community to impose further sanctions and measures to compel the occupation government to cease its violent oppression of Palestinian people and its crimes, urging it to implement the international will for peace.
