June 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, criticized this Tuesday during a new session of the Security Council the policies of the Israeli Government in the West Bank, asking it to act against the “significant uptick” in attacks committed by settlers against citizens. Palestinians.
“The eyes of the world are, rightly, on Gaza, but we cannot ignore the situation in the West Bank,” warned Thomas-Greenfield, who noted that this “significant uptick in deadly violence” has made 2023 the most deadly in that Palestinian territory since the UN began collecting data.
Thomas-Greenfield has noted that Israeli government policies facilitating the expansion of settlements in the West Bank – illegal under international law – only serve to “weaken security” in the region.
“The advance of Israeli settlements in the West Bank is an obstacle to achieving a two-state solution – the final state we all want to see, as we seek to end the fighting in Gaza,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
In contrast, he has highlighted the role of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in its efforts to maintain stability and has criticized Israel for blocking tax revenues that correspond to the Government of the West Bank, but not before pointing out that reforms are necessary in this entity. to combat corruption.
These criticisms had already been expressed throughout this day, after the United Nations special coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, warned of the expansion of settlements and that the Israeli economic bloc “threatens with sinking the Palestinian fiscal situation.
For several months, the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, has been applying retaliatory measures against the Palestinian Authority for supporting the actions of international Justice against Israel, withholding a large part of the Palestinian tax revenues that Israel is obliged to transfer to the West Bank.
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