The move is a war crime, the leftist political party affirmed in a press release and called on the International Criminal Court to try its sponsors.

The continued construction and legalization of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by the occupying power is a strategy aimed at confiscating land and isolating the cities and towns of the West Bank from each other, the Palestinian party denounced.

Faced with such a situation, it called to confront these actions with armed resistance, which “has proven its efficiency and effectiveness.”

Although the United Nations and the world consider all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal, Tel Aviv authorities distinguish between those that are authorized and those that are not.

More than 450,000 Israeli settlers live in 132 settlements and 147 outposts across the West Bank, and 200,000 others in East Jerusalem.

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