The plan is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and several UN Security Council resolutions on the subject, stressed the institution’s president, Rawhi Fattouh.

The idea is to create geographic contiguity between the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and the Mishor Adumim industrial zone at the expense of Palestinian lands, he denounced.

Fattouh stated that the proposal would also lead to the isolation of East Jerusalem and the dismemberment of the West Bank, turning it into scattered islands and isolated cantons.

Such a project is part of an expansionist policy that seeks to impose facts on the ground and eliminate any possibility of establishing an independent, sovereign, and geographically contiguous Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, he warned.

He also criticized the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, as well as the international silence regarding these crimes.

The head of the Palestinian Commission for Resistance to the Wall and Settlements, Mu’ayyad Shaaban, also questioned the Israeli plan, divided into three initiatives that provide for the construction of a total of 3,165 housing units.

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