Responding to a report in Zman Yisrael that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking US backing for an Israeli move to extend its sovereignty over settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman says any such process would be “illegitimate.”
Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language site, reported on Sunday that Netanyahu was attempting to obtain public approval from US President Donald Trump for Israeli moves to effectively annex parts of the West Bank ahead of national elections on September 17.
A view of houses in the Etzion bloc settlement of Efrat on November 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
“Any move that infringes on Palestinian rights or international law is unjust and illegitimate,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh is quoted in PA news outlet Wafa saying in response to the Zman report.
“Such a move will have dangerous consequences after Trump’s declaration about Jerusalem being Israel’s capital, the continued incursions of settlers and extremists into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the American position on refugees and the salaries of prisoners and martyrs,” the Wafa report adds.
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