On Friday, Israel’s security cabinet approved plans to formalize 19 illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank, in a move widely condemned as a violation of international law and aimed at further annexing Palestinian territories. The announcement was made by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, which Palestinian officials denounced as deepening a decades-long project of land theft. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the imposition of colonial facts in the West Bank, stressing that such actions clearly violate United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibiting settlement activity. Hamas urged the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to assume responsibility in defending Palestine against Israel’s colonial behavior.
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