20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Israel has affirmed this Monday that the United Nations Security Council’s condemnation of its settlement policy in the West Bank “denies the rights of Jews” to live in their “historical homeland” and ignores the Palestinian “terrorist attacks”.
“It turns a blind eye to the fact that the Palestinian Authority subsidizes terrorism, pays off the families of terrorists and dwarfs the anti-Semitism that led to the murder of millions of Jews,” the prime minister’s office said in reference to the Holocaust. Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu.
In this way, it has indicated that the Council’s statement, which has been published instead of a vote on a condemnation resolution, should not have occurred. “The United States should not have joined it,” he said, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
The declaration of the highest body of the UN, in response to the latest decision of the Government of Israel that recognizes nine more settlements in the West Bank, is merely symbolic and is not binding as a resolution would be, which has been avoided thanks to an agreement reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority mediated by Washington.
Israeli media point out that Israel would have agreed to stop legalizing new settlements in the coming months and reduce the incursions of the Israeli security forces into the Palestinian territories, operations that so far this year have resulted in the death of 48 Palestinians.
Israel also reportedly agreed to commit to postponing planned home demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem, as well as facilitating the collection of taxes from the Palestinian Authority for an increase of up to $60 million annually.
