The UN has criticized Israeli plans to establish sovereignty over the Jordan valley
Israel, having established sovereignty over the Jordan valley, violate international law, warned the UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres.
Israel, having established sovereignty over the Jordan valley, violate international law, warned the UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres.
About plans of distribution of Israeli sovereignty on the Jordan valley the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday. First steps Netanyahu wants to undertake immediately after the creation of the new Cabinet after the elections to the Knesset, which will be held on September 17.
As reported in circulation, the official envoy of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarric, Guterres was concerned about plans by Netanyahu establishing Israel's sovereignty over territories in the occupied West Bank.
UN Secretary-General continues to support a settlement between Palestinians and Israelis on the basis of the relevant resolutions of the world organization.
Jewish Settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan river, which Israel called Judea and Samaria, came after Israel's victory in the six day war of 1967. Currently in the West Bank there are about 120 large and small settlement, where hundreds of thousand of Israelis. Settlements are not considered part of Israel, neither from the perspective of international or even domestic law, as opposed to from East Jerusalem or the Golan heights. The UN considers these areas occupied, Israel is more often hear about the fact that the state is obliged to distribute its own sovereignty over these lands.
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