The notice listed these areas as including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 Middle East War, and the Golan Heights, seized from Syria during the same conflict.
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Israel’s strategic building of the settlements in the West Bank have turned the territory into a Bantustan, divided into three cantons making the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state virtually impossible.
The worldwide community opposes settlement construction, saying their continued growth undermines establishing an independent Palestine alongside Israel.
– In 1972 there were just over 10,000 Israeli settlers, with 1,500 living in the West Bank and the rest in east Jerusalem. In case Israel rejects the recognition of a Palestinian state, the Palestinians will declare the end of the transitional peace period. While Netanyahu has endorsed this “two-state solution”, critics say he has done little to promote it.
Violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank has been climbing, with the number of stabbing attacks on Israelis by Palestinians on the rise.
Shawar said they went to the surgical ward where the suspect was being treated and on their way out, the suspect was in the same wheelchair.
The move attracted particular attention because the Lost in Translation star was also an ambassador for Oxfam, an global NGO that condemns illegal Israeli settlements. Israel’s leaders have reacted with fury, canceling diplomatic meetings and ramping up embattled rhetoric. But the move is highly symbolic.
Few issues have caused more friction between Israel and the European Union than EU plans to impose labeling on goods produced in Jewish settlements on occupied land.
“The growing political vacuum will keep the doors open for more escalation of the current wave of tension with Israel in the Palestinian territories amid a closed political margin and a deteriorating economic situation”, said Jackman. Officials avoided such language Wednesday, but the reactions were swift and angry nonetheless.
The island has been split since a 1974 Turkish invasion; the south is controlled by Cyprus s internationally recognized government and is an European Union member country. The victim was a Palestinian related to a man suspected of being behind an anti-Israeli attack, official Palestinian and Israeli sources said. We always said it has to be negotiated in line with [UN Security Council resolutions] 242 and 338.
The violence has been compounded by continued frustration by Palestinians at a dead peace process and occupation of their lands by settlers in violation of worldwide law.
Senior Israeli diplomat Dore Gold, the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the European Union move held Israel to a different standard than other countries and would threaten Palestinian jobs.
Palestinian dorctors and staff of al-Ahli hospital protest after Israeli undercover agents raided th … “The Israeli economy is strong and will withstand this”.
Numerous Palestinians killed were alleged attackers.
The Psagot settlement in Israel. “This has been and remains our position and it will not change”, the official explained.
While running for re-election early this year, Netanyahu said he would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state on his watch.
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On Tuesday, he raised the possibility of unspecified “unilateral” Israeli steps. He declined to elaborate.
