Zionist Regime Facing Isolation over Settlements
"Israel now is facing isolation from all its friends not only those who do not support Israel and Israeli policies," Abdallah Abdallah said in an interview on Friday.
The remarks came one day after the Israeli Housing Ministry published tenders for the construction of some 1,500 settler units in the West Bank and the occupied East al-Quds.
Abdallah emphasized that the Tel Aviv regime has decided to build more settlements in the occupied territories in response to the formation of a Palestinian unity government.
Earlier in April, the two main Palestinian political factions of Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement to end years of rivalry and form a unity government. The new cabinet of the Palestinian unity government was sworn in before the president of the national unity government Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on June 2.
The PLO official noted that Palestinians will resist and reject Israel’s settlement activities, until they "force Israel to feel the isolation it deserves and then abandon its occupation voluntarily.”
“We have to be together and to make sure that Israel does not make any gain, does not use any excuse that comes from our side to help Israel out of this crisis,” he concluded.
Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law. However, Tel Aviv is expanding projects on the occupied Palestinian territories, in defiance of international calls to halt the construction.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
Source: Press TV
