Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel’s plans to build 3,500 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank.
The ministry issued a statement calling the plans unilateral and illegal measures that violate international law and undermine peace efforts and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Israeli settlement-planning authority announced on Wednesday that it had pushed forward permits for the new settlements in Maale Adumim, Kedar and Efrat, which are situated close to Jerusalem.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the new planned settlements will add to a record number already approved this year.
“The enemies try to harm and weaken us, but we will continue to build and be built up in this land,” he wrote on X.
To learn more about Israeli settlers and their history of living on Palestinian land, read this story.
source: AlJazeera