The Palestinian Presidency warned in a statement about the danger of the new plan by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, noting that it violates international law and represents a threat to regional security and stability.

The statement considered the measure a dangerous Israeli escalation against Palestine and constitutes “the termination of the agreements signed” between the two parties.

Furthermore, it stated that it contradicts several UN Security Council resolutions on the matter, particularly Resolution 2334, which considers all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, illegal.

The president of the Palestinian National Council, Rouhi Fattouh, expressed a similar sentiment.

The leader considered the regulation and registration of lands in the West Bank to be an arbitrary measure, a large-scale plundering of Palestinian lands, “a de facto annexation and a direct invasion.”

Fattouh emphasized that this policy neither creates nor eliminates any rights; on the contrary, it openly contradicts international norms, particularly the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, “which prohibits the occupying power from making permanent changes to the occupied territory or confiscating the property of the population.”

He reiterated that the West Bank is an integral part of the Palestinian territory occupied during the 1967 war.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated that the Israeli decision is null and void.

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