Israel to Seize Nearly 1,000 Acres of West Bank Land, UN Secretary General ‘Alarmed’
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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — United Nations Secretary General Bank Ki-moon on Monday said that he was “alarmed” by an announcement that Israel intended to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank “state land.”
Ban suggested that seizing such a large area of land “risks paving the way for further settlement activity, which — as the United Nations has reiterated on many occasions — is illegal under intentional law and runs totally counter to the pursuit of a two-state solution. The land seizure is believed to be the largest in 30 years, BBC News notes.
The land, which Palestinians claim as their own, is expected to be used to expand a small Israeli settlement. The U.S. State Department called the move “unproductive” in regards to the pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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