Cabinet Order to Annex Entire West Bank, Palestinian National Initiative Says
by Palestinian National Initiative
June 28, 2024
Ramallah
Dr.
Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative
(PNI) said that the recent decisions of the Israeli cabinet are a
declaration of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which is the most
dangerous challenge facing the Palestinian people since the Nakba.
Israeli cabinet decisions approve an
unprecedented expansion of illegal settlements and practical measures to
Judaise the entire West Bank. The decisions include the complete seizure of the civilian
powers of the Palestinian Authority in the so-called "B" areas and their
subordination with “C” areas (82% of the West Bank in total) to the
control of the settlers led by the Israeli finance minister and the de
facto governor of the West Bank Smotrich.
The
security authority of the PA in the so-called areas (A) were already
cancelled by Israel , and this is an affirmation of Israel's termination
of all the remains of the problematic Oslo Agreement.
The most dangerous aspect of the cabinet’s decisions is that
they legalise and change the nature of the West Bank from being an
occupied Palestinian territory with foreign illegal settlement bodies in
it, to an annexed Israeli territory in which settlements and their
roads are besieging Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps and
turning them into isolated and persecuted ghettos.
Barghouti
pointed out that the cabinet's decisions include not only the
construction of more illegal settlements , but also the extensive
demolition of Palestinian homes and facilities in most of the West Bank.
Barghouti
stressed that the fascist decisions of the racist Israeli government
and the war of genocide it is waging in Gaza are the most dangerous
challenge the Palestinian people have faced since the Nakba in 1948.
He
said that given the risks presented by the decision of the Israeli
cabinet, the duty of Palestinian forces, factions and authority is to
put aside their differences and conflicts and to accelerate the
achievement of national unity and unified national leadership to
addresses these unprecedented challenges.
He
said the Israeli government will not be deterred from the dangerous
path they are taking without the wide and serious sanctions from the
International community and Arab countries.
Any
one who claims to support the right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination and the establishment of an independent sovereign
Palestinian state will be accused of hypocrisy unless they: call for the
immediate end of Israeli occupation of West Bank and Gaza and the
removal of Israeli illegal settlements; and participate in the
imposition of sanctions on the Israeli government to force the
retraction of their recent decisions.
