
Turkey on Wednesday condemned Israel's plan to construct over 2,500 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem,*Anadolu Agency*reports. "We strongly condemn the step that Israel took towards the construction of an additional illegal settlement with a total of 2,572 residences, 2,112 of which are in the West Bank and 460 in East Jerusalem with the tenders [Israel] announced today," said a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement. The statement said Israel, by such actions, intends to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian State with geographical integrity and change the status of Jerusalem. The increase in the number of such actions before each election reflects a mentality of opportunism, it said, and added that these actions block the means […]
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