RAMALLAH, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called today on the international community to deal with the Israeli colonial system as an “apartheid” regime.
In a press statement, the Foreign Ministry said the occupying state is not only perpetuating the occupation, but is also aspiring to annex more areas of the occupied West Bank through a long series of expansionist colonial measures and statements by far-right leaders.
It said the remarks made this morning by Israeli MK Bezalel Smotrich “confirm that the occupying state is continuing to deepen the apartheid regime in occupied Palestine by stripping the Palestinians of their land, and gradually expanding the jurisdiction of Israeli law to the settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
The Foreign Ministry pointed out that the situation on the ground “is likely to worsen further in light of the control of the right and the extreme Israeli right over the corridors of government in the occupying state, especially after the recent Israeli elections.”
The Ministry held Israel fully and directly responsible for its violations and crimes, and for blocking any political horizon since 2009 to resolve the conflict and rather replacing it with military solutions.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency