UAE, Islamic world condemn Israel's vote on West Bank annexation bills

The UAE and several Arab and Muslim nations strongly condemned the Israeli parliament's vote in favour of examining two annexation bills.

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In a joint statement on Thursday, more than a dozen Arab and Muslim countries have warned that annexation of the West Bank is a red line.

'ONE VOICE:' The UAE, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Egypt, Nigeria, the League of Arab States, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemn in the strongest terms the approval by the Israeli Knesset of two draft laws seeking to impose so-called "Israeli sovereignty" over the occupied West Bank and illegal Israeli colonial settlements.

These measures represent a flagrant violation of international law and of United Nations Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334, which rejects all Israeli measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character, and status of the occupied Palestinian territory since 1967, including East Jerusalem.

These actions also contravene the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which affirmed the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and the invalidity of settlement construction and annexation measures in the occupied West Bank.