Ammon News - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in the strongest terms the approval of the settlement plan in the E1 area by extremist Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich and his extremist racist statements about preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The Ministry considered this a flagrant violation of international law and an assault on the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent, sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 lines, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital. , stressing that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Ministry's official spokesperson, Ambassador Sufyan Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom's absolute rejection and condemnation of this settlement plan and the illegal Israeli measures that constitute a flagrant violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334, which condemns all Israeli measures aimed at changing the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.

Qudah warned that the Israeli government's extremist expansionist policy in the occupied West Bank is continuing, which encourages the continuation of cycles of violence and conflict in the region.