3/7/2025–|Last update: 13:04 (Mecca time)
The Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry, Nir Barakat, called on Thursday to dismantle Palestinian AuthorityAt a time when other ministers are demanding annexation West Bank And the imposition of Israeli sovereignty on it.
The Israeli minister considered that the Palestinian Authority and a model Oslo agreement They do not deserve to stay.
While the Palestinian National Council considered calls to include the occupied West Bank of Israeli sovereignty, “a direction of aggression and a blatant violation of international law.”
This came, according to the President of the Council, Fattouh, in a statement, commenting on the call of ministers from the Likud party to include the West Bank.
Fattouh said that the invitations issued by a number of ministers and members of the occupation church to implement Israeli sovereignty on the West Bank are part of the goals of the colonial right government, and represented a very dangerous development and aggression.
He pointed out that this trend is an open attempt to escalate the conflict, export the internal political crises faced by the occupation government, through the policy of escaping forward and imposing facts by force.
Fattouh stressed that these policies will not succeed in canceling the Palestinian presence or blurring its national identity.
The international community called – including the Security Council, the European Union and the Arab League – to take clear positions and deterrent measures towards this dangerous Israeli trend, which not only targets the Palestinian land, but also blows any possibility to revive a political process.
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On Wednesday, 14 ministers and head of the Israeli Knesset, Amir Ohna, signed a message, and sent it to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Likud leader.
In their mission, the signatories demanded the application of sovereignty and Israeli law on the West Bank immediately.
Since 2023, Israel has accelerated and expanded a pace Settlement In the occupied West Bank, settlers’ attacks on the Palestinians escalated.
According to Palestinian reports, the number of settlers in the West Bank reached the end of 2024 about 770,000, distributed over 180 settlements and 257 settlement foci, of which 138 are classified as pastoral and agricultural.
Israel also launched a military operation in the northern West Bank, which began in the refugee camps, then expanded to include other areas, and resulted in the largest wave of Palestinian displacement in the West Bank since 1967, as it had been displaced 40,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The United Nations confirms that settlement in the occupied territories is illegal, and warns that it undermines the possibility of addressing the conflict in accordance with the principle of the two -state solution, and Israel has been calling for decades to stop it without success.