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Germany on Monday warned that Israel’s ongoing settlement construction will only “perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the West Bank instead of ending it,” Anadolu reports. “The German government’s position is very clear: settlement construction violates international law. We reject it outright. It also jeopardizes the German government’s goal of a negotiated two-state solution and perpetuates the Israeli occupation of the West Bank instead of ending it, as demanded by the ICJ (International Court of Justice),” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kathrin Deschauer told a press briefing in Berlin. Deschauer’s remarks came after Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total number of new settlements over the past few years to 69, according to far-right […]
