Kerry says Area C mostly off-limits to Palestinians

28 December 2016, 6:50 pm

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Kerry says that in terms of geography, it isn’t just how many settlements there are, but how they are spread out.

“The more outposts that are built, the more the settlements expand, the less possibility to build a contiguous state,” he says.

“The problem obviously goes well beyond settlements,” he says. Kerry says Area C, which he says was supposed to be transferred to Palestinians under Oslo Accords, “much of it [is] effectively off-limits to Palestinian development.”

“Almost no private Palestinian building is approved in Area C at all,” he says, with the exception of one unit. He says more Palestinians have been displaced in Area C in 2016 than any previous year.

Kerry quotes Bennett saying “the era of the two-state solution” is over.