Head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege Jamal al-Khudari on Saturday said that Israel’s decision to build 20000 new settlement units in Jerusalem is part of the “Deal of the Century” to complete the annexation and Judaization of the holy city.
Al-Khudari in a press statement Saturday said that such settlement projects fall in line with Israel’s attempts to impose new facts on the ground.
Al-Khudari added that the new Israeli settlement moves were encouraged by the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move its embassy in Israel to the holy city.
The Palestinian official warned that Israel’s settlement projects which have the full support of the US come within the framework of a larger plan to kill any hopes for an independent Palestinian state.
He called for a real Palestinian national unity to thwart these plans which blatantly violate the UN resolutions which recognize the Palestinian state and consider Israel’s settlement construction activity illegal.
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality and the so-called Land Authority on Wednesday announced that they had reached an agreement to build 20000 new settlement units in Jerusalem.
