Draft UNSC resolution rebukes Israel annexation plan

A draft United Nations Security Council resolution condemns Zionist regime’s plan to annex the settlements it has built illegally on Occupied Palestinian Territories in a rebuke of a US-devised scheme that endorses such land theft.

The draft, which was reported on by Reuters on Tuesday, has been drawn up by Palestinians and circulated to Council members by Tunisia and Indonesia.

The resolution “stresses the illegality of the annexation of any part” of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and “condemns recent statements calling for annexation by Israel” of these territories.

Last Tuesday, US President Donald Trump unveiled the outlines of his so-called “deal of the century,” which features Israel’s annexation of the apartment blocks that it has propped up across the West Bank since occupying the Palestinian territory during a war in 1967.

More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built on the land since the occupation.

The deal also envisions the recognition of al-Quds as Israel’s “capital” — although Palestinians want the occupied holy city’s eastern part as the capital of their future state.

All previous foreign-mediated agreements between Palestinians and Israelis as well as repeated United Nations’ resolutions have mandated Tel Aviv to withdraw behind the 1967 borders.

All Palestinian factions have unanimously rejected Trump’s plan. Palestine stopped recognizing the US as a mediator in West Asia process when Trump, in December 2017, recognized occupied al-Quds as Israel’s “capital.”

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