{"id":300258,"date":"2026-02-20T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:30:07","slug":"un-condemns-continued-israel-annexation-of-west-bank-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300258\/","title":{"rendered":"UN condemns continued Israel annexation of West Bank – JURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN experts condemned<\/a> Israel\u2019s continued attempts to take over the Palestinian West Bank on Wednesday, following approved <\/a>measures that grants Israel power to purchase land in the occupied territory with almost no limitations.<\/p>\n

Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n

These measures are not routine administrative adjustments. They are deliberate, incremental steps toward permanent annexation, advanced piece by piece, in broad daylight, and with total impunity\u2026 [T]hey will only deepen and entrench an occupation that the world\u2019s highest court has determined to be unlawful, further eroding the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The policy, approved February 8, removes barriers for Israelis to settle in the territory and imposes heightened law enforcement powers in the region. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, stated<\/a> that these decisions \u201care intended to remove decades-old barriers, repeal discriminatory Jordanian legislation, and enable accelerated development of settlement on the ground.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Palestinian leaders denounced<\/a> these actions while requesting US and UN Security Council intervention. Hamas<\/a> reacted by calling for increased resistance and continued refusal to disarm. Hamas politician Khaled Meshaal asserted<\/a> that \u201cresistance is a right\u201d and that disarming occupied peoples will make them \u201can easy victim to be eliminated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Albanese warned that continued Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories violates Article 2(4)<\/a> of the UN Charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention<\/a>. She urged nations and member states to \u201ccomply with their legal obligations\u201d to aid in ending the unlawful Israeli occupation, adding:<\/p>\n

The architects of the measures\u2026have openly and repeatedly stated that the objective is to accelerate settlement development for \u2018Jewish self-determination\u2019 only\u2026 This is not neutral governance. It is a criminal policy pursuing ethnic cleansing that must be halted immediately.<\/p>\n

International bodies<\/a> and human rights organizations<\/a>\u00a0have continuously documented<\/a> Israel\u2019s disregard for international law. In its July 2024 advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice\u00a0ruled<\/a> that the nation\u2019s settlement policy is irredeemably illegal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN experts condemned Israel\u2019s continued attempts to take over the Palestinian West Bank on Wednesday, following approved measures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-300258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}