That strategy “entails serious violations of the international law and deprives the Palestinians of their basic right to self-determination,” the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) reported.

The Commission called to help the Palestinian people reduce the economic dependence of Israel, improve the resilience and achieve a sustainable development.

It stated that Tel Aviv’s plan is to fragment the occupied areas in order to maintain dominance over them.

By maintaining the military occupation and preventing the establishment of a viable Palestinian state in accordance with the international law, these practices and their repercussions blatantly deny the equal rights of both peoples, it stressed.

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