EU Condemns Israeli Settlement Expansion Plans

2023-02-25 01:20:41

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (KUNA) -- The European Union (EU) has condemned Thursdayآ's approval by Israel of plans for advancing more than 7,000 housing units in illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank.
'This exceeds the total number advanced during all of 2022, which was a record year in terms of illegal settlement expansion,' said EU spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, Nabila Massrali, in a statement late Friday.
The EU reiterated its position that settlements are illegal under international law.
The 27-member European bloc renewed its call on Israel to halt settlement construction and to reverse these latest decisions as a matter of urgency. (end)
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