Due to the “seriousness” of the law change, Palestine has asked the United States to pressure Israel to withdraw from the initiative and “force the Israeli government to cease its unilateral legal actions.”
Israel’s Council of Ministers approved a law amendment on Sunday procedures are simplified and deadlines shortened for building permit new Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
With these changes, he becomes the finance minister, defense minister and leader of the far-right Religious Zionist party, Bezalel Smotrich, which will now check the two phases necessary for the approval of new constructions. Construction of new houses in the West Bank settlements is expected to be approved next week, which has already sparked protests from the Palestinian Authority.
Just after news of the rule change broke, the new Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority Minister of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, announced that will not attend the meeting with the Israeli government of the Joint Economic Commission scheduled for this Monday.
Palestinian leaders “they will study other measures and decisions applicable in relation to the relationship with Israel”Al Sheikh explained in a post on Twitter. The Joint Economic Commission has not met since 2009.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has also expressed criticism the “seriousness” of the amendment that gives all power to Smotrich and has denounced that it is one more step to facilitate the “silent” approval of new settlements.
So, has asked the United States to put pressure on Israel to reverse the initiative and “force the Israeli government to stop its illegal unilateral actions” because they harm the chances of achieving a two-state solution.
Source: EITB
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