A PNC Statement stressed that Israel has recently announced the so-called “prior approval” for the illegal construction of more than 3000 settlement units, and a building plan in “Givat Hamatos” settlement, on the lands of Beit Safafa, South of occupied Jerusalem, and the completion of the area known as E1, in oder to cut the geographical connection between the north and south of the West Bank, as well as the plan to build 9000 settlement units at the occupied Jerusalem / Qalandiya airport.

The Statement said the Israeli violations included also:

-Continuation of systematic attacks on the blessed Al- Aqsa Mosque by extremist settler groups sponsored by the occupation government.

- Beginning implementation of the “land settlement” project, to take full control of real estate and thousands of dunams in occupied Jerusalem, and to displace thousands of Palestinians from it, based on the so-called “Absentees’ Property Law”.

-Refusal of occupation authorities to release seven Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons despite their entering a critical stage.

-Decision of Israeli Minister of war to slanderly classify 6 Palestinian human rights organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories as “terrorist” organizations, in an attempt to silence their voices.

25 October 2021