The document, signed by 25 foreign ministries, criticizes “the colonization plan announced by the civil administration” that, “to be applied, would divide the Palestinian state into twoconstituting a flagrant violation of international law and severely compromising the solution of two states. “
Twenty-five countries, including Portugal, required the end of the and opposed any territorial or demographic change in the region.
The document, signed by 25 foreign ministries, criticizes “the colonization plan announced by the civil administration” that, “to be applied, would divide the Palestinian state into twoconstituting a flagrant violation of international law and severely compromising the solution of two states. “
“The construction of colonates throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, accelerated, while the violence of the settlers against the Palestinians has shot. This situation has to end,” add the signatories.
A criticizes the Israeli government’s help distribution modelqualifying it as dangerous for “feeding instability and depriving the inhabitants of Gaza of Human Dignity.”
“We condemned the distribution drop the drop of help and inhuman death of civilians, including children, who seek to meet their most basic water and food needs. It is horrible that more than 800 Palestinians have been killed when they sought help,” the statement said.
According to the countries, “the refusal of the Israeli government to provide humanitarian assistance Essential to the civilian population is unacceptable, “stressing that” Israel has to fulfill its obligations under the International Humanitarian Law. “
“We appeal to the Israelite government so that immediately raise restrictions on help flow and to urgently allow the UN and the NGO [organizações não-governamentais] Humanitarian do their work of saving lives safely and effectively, “they add.
Signatory countries appeal to that all parties protect civilians and consider “unacceptable” the “proposals to remove the Palestinian population for a humanitarian city “.
“Permanent forced travel is a violation of international humanitarian law,” says the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Neth’s Norway, Norway, Norway Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The document, also signed by the European Commissioner for Equality, Preparation and Management of Crisis, Hadja Lahbib, underlines the opposition by the signatories to any measures aimed at a “Territorial or demographic change in occupied Palestinian territories”.
The signatories also reinforce that the hostages “cruelly kept in captivity by Hamas since October 7, 2023 suffer terribly“and condemn the continuation of detention.
Countries appeal to the international community that unites around a ceasefire “immediate, unconditional and permanent”and reinforce the support “to the efforts of the United States, Qatar and Egypt to achieve this goal.”
