Arab states condemn Israeli bills for West Bank annexation as ‘flagrant violation of international law’

Arab countries decried the Israeli Knesset’s preliminary passage of two bills on Wednesday to annex the occupied West Bank and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc in East Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation of international law,” Anadolu reports. The Knesset approved the two bills in a preliminary reading on Wednesday. Both drafts still must pass three additional readings to become law. In a statement, Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Fouad al-Majali called the move “a flagrant violation of international law and a blow to the two-state solution, as well as to the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and to establish their independent, sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 lines, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital.” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry denounced the […]