The Palestinian presidency, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and Jordan condemned Tel Aviv’s publication of alleged maps of “historic Israel” that include parts of the occupied Palestinian territories in addition to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said that publishing official accounts affiliated with the occupation authorities, maps of the region that include the Palestinian and Arab territories, and publishing racist statements calling for the annexation of the West Bank and the establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip, are calls that are condemned and rejected.
Abu Rudeina stressed that this behavior constitutes a flagrant violation of all resolutions of international legitimacy and international law.
He added that these extremist Israeli policies are what ignited the region and led to the wars we are currently witnessing. Therefore, the priority now is an immediate ceasefire in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution No. 2735, the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, and the State of Palestine assuming its full responsibilities in the Strip.
Abu Rudeina called on the incoming US administration to work to stop all Israeli policies, actions and procedures that do not serve security and peace in the region.
He continued, “These provocations – which are accompanied by settler attacks, the ongoing incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the ongoing incitement against the Palestinian people and their leadership – require an urgent international stance to stop the war, destruction, and killing that the Palestinian people are exposed to, resulting in tens of thousands of victims.”
For its part, the Hamas movement said that “the call by official Zionist accounts and the statements of the occupation leaders to annex Palestinian and Arab lands is confirmation of its expansionist ambitions.”
The movement added that the hostile statements against the occupation require strong positions from Arab and Islamic governments to confront its ambitions and stop its crimes.
Jordan condemns
Earlier today, Tuesday, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said – in a statement – that it condemns “in the strongest terms what Israeli official accounts published on social media platforms of maps of the region that they claim are historic for Israel, including parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.”
The Ministry’s official spokesman, Sufyan Al-Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom’s absolute rejection of these inflammatory policies and statements that aim to deny the right of the Palestinians to establish their independent, sovereign state along the lines of June 4, 1967, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital.
The judges said that these actions do not harm Jordan and do not detract from the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, calling for a clear international position on these statements and condemning them, and warning of their dire consequences for the security and stability of the region.
The judges called on the Israeli government to immediately stop these inflammatory actions by Israeli officials, which have no place except in the minds of extremists, contribute to fueling conflicts and are a threat to international peace and security, according to the ministry’s statement.
“Year of Israeli Sovereignty”
Last November 11, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – the leader of religious Zionism – said that he had issued instructions to the Settlement Administration and the Civil Administration (affiliated with the Ministry of Defense) to begin professional and comprehensive basic work to prepare the infrastructure necessary to apply sovereignty over the West Bank.
Smotrich pledged that 2025 would be the year of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
One day later, the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to include the issue of annexing the West Bank on his government’s agenda, after US President Donald Trump takes office on January 20.
Looking at the map of the West Bank, Israel appears to control most of its territory, and divides the Palestinian areas into ghettos through settlement blocs, gates, and barriers, which the Palestinian Foreign Ministry considered an attempt to undermine any opportunity to materialize the Palestinian state on the ground and liquidate the Palestinian cause.
This comes as Israel continues its war of extermination in Gaza since October 7, 2023, in parallel with the escalation of the Israeli army and settlers’ attacks in the West Bank, which resulted in the death of 843 Palestinians and the injury of about 6,700 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
While the Israeli genocide in Gaza left more than 155,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
