Ayhan Simsek<\/p>\n
19 August 2026\u2022Update: 19 August 2026<\/p>\n
Germany has condemned Israel\u2019s tender for over 1,000 West Bank settlement homes and urged it to drop the plan, saying it harms hopes for a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n
Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Giese said Wednesday the expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territories breaches international law and endangers the prospects for a two-state solution<\/p>\n
\u201cWe condemn the tender published yesterday for over 1,000 housing units for the Israeli E1 settlement project,\u201d he told a press conference in Berlin. \u201cThis hinders the path\u2014demanded by the international community and the International Court of Justice\u2014towards ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, thereby jeopardizing the prospect of a negotiated two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giese said implementing the E1 project would effectively divide the West Bank in two and sever it from East Jerusalem, rendering a two-state solution unviable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe therefore once again call upon the Israeli government to halt plans for the E1 settlement and to cease settlement construction in the West Bank,\u201d he said. Germany, he added, will not recognize any changes to the 1967 borders that have not been agreed by the parties to the conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany clearly rejects any plans by the Israeli government for annexation,\u201d Giese stressed. \u201cThe German government will continue to work with its European and international partners to establish the conditions necessary for a sustainable peace and a negotiated two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayhan Simsek 19 August 2026\u2022Update: 19 August 2026 Germany has condemned Israel\u2019s tender for over 1,000 West Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-589445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589445","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=589445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}