Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi has denounced Israel’s plan to build 800 new settlement units in Occupied Jerusalem.
Safadi said in statements on Twitter that the new move blatantly violates international law.
The Israeli authorities have recently put forward tenders for the construction of over 800 housing units in East Jerusalem.
Safadi described the plan as “illegitimate” and said that it would “undermine efforts to achieve peace based on the two-state solution”.
He called on the international community to act immediately toward putting an end to the Israeli violations.
In April Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed during an interview with a local media platform that he had informed the US president Donald Trump about his intention to annex the West Bank settlements to Israel.
Netanyahu explained that the annexation will be carried out gradually and in coordination with the US.
Israel since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967 has built 250 settlements and currently over 400000 settlers are living there.
