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The European Union’s foreign policy chief and the United Nations secretary-general on Tuesday criticized an Israeli move to legalize thousands of settler homes on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
The EU’s Federica Mogherini said that the law Adidas Ultra Boost Blue Sale , if it was implemented, crossed a new and dangerous threshold.
“Such settlements constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten the viability of a two-state solution,” she said.
“(It) would further entrench a one-state reality of unequal rights, perpetual occupation and conflict Adidas Ultra Boost Triple Black Sale ,” she said, highlighting that the EU sees Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as illegal.
The Israeli parliament passed the legislation two weeks after the inauguration of President Donald Trump as the new U.S. president. Trump has signaled a softer approach to the settlement issue than that of the previous U.S. administration.
It retroactively legalizes about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the action went against international law and would have legal consequences for Israel.
“The Secretary-General insists on the need to avoid any actions that would derail the two-state solution,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement Adidas Ultra Boost Black Sale , referring to longstanding international efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
French President Francois Hollande also added his voice to the condemnation, saying it paved the way for the annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories.
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