Pakistan, among eight Muslim countries, on Monday warned that Israel’s expansionist policies in the West Bank were aimed at enforcing “a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank”.
In a joint statement on Monday, the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar termed the Israeli illegal acts as “accelerating attempts at its illegal annexation and the displacement of the Palestinian people.” “They reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory,” read the statement issued by the Foreign Office spokesperson.
The statement follows an approval of a series of steps by Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday that would make it easier for settlers in the West Bank to buy land while granting Israeli authorities more enforcement powers over Palestinians.
