Ramallah: Chairman of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), Rawhi Fattouh, stated that the Israeli occupation government is advancing a dangerous and systematic plan aimed at annexing Palestinian lands and expanding the control of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem at the expense of West Bank territories, a precedent not seen since 1967.

According to Qatar News Agency, Fattouh emphasized in a statement on Monday that the colonial plan targeting the expansion of Neve Yaakov settlement and its linkage to Adam settlement, through the construction of new bypass roads alongside the Separation Wall, falls within a substitutional colonial policy designed to impose geographic and demographic realities by force, isolate Palestinian villages and towns, and sever their residents from their natural territorial continuity.

He stressed that the so-called "Land Annexation and Property Transfer Law," along with subsequent decisions issued by the occupation cabinet and approved by the Israeli occupation government, constitutes a legal cover for the appropriation of Palestinian land through re-registration and the annulment of existing laws, allowing settlers to seize it. This represents a direct violation of relevant international resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of the occupying power's population into occupied territories or the seizure of property belonging to the local population.

Fattouh described these policies as a serious escalation aimed at eliminating any hope for the establishment of a Palestinian state and the two-state solution, while imposing an apartheid system. He called on the international community to adopt practical and serious positions and to assume its legal and moral responsibilities.