Mansi: Continued building in settlements a crime
Minister of housing and public works in the Palestinian government in Gaza Dr. Yousef Mansi on Tuesday denounced the Israeli occupation government’s decision to build 112 housing units in Beitar Ilit settlement in the West Bank despite an alleged construction freeze in those settlements.
Mansi, in a press release, said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was breaking all international treaties and agreements as evident in its daily confiscation of more Palestinian lands.
Describing the building in West Bank settlements as a crime against the Palestinian land, the minister said that the IOA is expanding its settlement activity with American cover and continuing to besiege Gaza and prevent the reconstruction of thousands of buildings destroyed by its war machine, the minister elaborated.
He asked the world community and its institutions to pressure the IOA to halt building on Palestinian land, and appealed to the Arab League to put the settlement building in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank at the top of the forthcoming Arab summit’s agenda.
