Hamas condemns Israeli construction of new settler outpost in al-Quds
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s decision to construct a new settler outpost in the occupied al-Quds, calling it a “violation of international law.”
In remarks on Sunday, Hamas’s political bureau Abdul-Jabbar Sa’eid said that the building of such an illegal settlement in as-Sawahira area would mean more Judaization of the holy city.
The Hamas official further accused Israeli forces of attacking peaceful demonstrators who protest against their forced displacement and expulsion from their homes in the East -al-Quds’ al-Bustan and other neighborhoods.
The Israeli regime was resorting to aggressive means and depriving the local residents of their legitimate right to protest and demonstration, the spokesman said.
In recent months, Israeli authorities have approved plans for the construction of hundreds of new settler units in the West Bank, irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land grab policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Emboldened by former US President Donald Trump’s all-out support, Israel stepped up its illegal settlement construction activities in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounced settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds “a flagrant violation under international law.”
Much of the international community regards the Israeli settler units in the occupied lands as illegal.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent state with East al-Quds as its capital.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Sa’eid warned that extremist settlers were seeking to fuel a religious war by staging the so-called "flag march" near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the coming days.
He urged the massive presence of Palestinians at the holy site to nullify the march by Israeli settlers.
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