We call on the international community and especially the White House to express “the rejection to the settlements into practical actions and steps to force the occupying power” to put an end to this policy, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated in a communique.

The Ministry condemned the Israeli authorities’ decision to establish a new settlement in central West Bank.

The construction of that settlement “is part of a racist colonial expansionist scheme”, the text denounced.

Those centers, as well as the expansion of the network of roads and tunnels for Israeli use and the confiscation of land, are aimed at breaking up the West Bank and transforming “the Palestinian territories into mere besieged, isolated islands, suffocated by settlements, checkpoints and military towers,” it said.

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