Hamas deplores Zionist regime’s decision to grant city status to W. Bank settlement
The Hamas Movement has condemned the Zionist regime’s occupation government’s decision to grant city status to the illegal Giv’at Ze’ev settlement in northern Al-Quds.
In a statement released on Monday, Hamas called the decision a “dangerous escalation” and a “blatant act of aggression.”
Hamas warned that this move is an attempt by the Zionist regime’s government to establish permanent, illegal colonial faits accomplis in the occupied Palestinian territories to advance annexation and displacement.
Hamas stressed that all Zionist regime’s measures, laws, and decisions regarding settlement expansion and Judaization in the West Bank are null and void and violate international law and the Palestinian people’s historical rights.
Hamas also warned that such decisions are aimed at “liquidating the Palestinian cause by expanding settlements, turning outposts and settlements into major cities, linking them together, fragmenting the West Bank, isolating Al-Quds, and destroying any prospect of establishing a Palestinian state.”
The Movement called on the international community, the UN, and the world’s free people to move beyond statements of condemnation and start taking practical steps to confront Zionist regime’s settlement plans and hold it accountable for its ongoing violations.