{"id":71586,"date":"2016-02-29T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71586"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:29:28","slug":"palestinians-urge-for-intl-action-against-israeli-settlement-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/palestinians-urge-for-intl-action-against-israeli-settlement-in-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians urge for int&#8217;l action against Israeli settlement in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RAMALLAH\u2014The Palestinians on Sunday called for a binding international resolution to stop the Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and to save the two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said that Israel&#8217;s policies on the settlement undermine the two-state solution through unilateral measures that target the existence of Palestinians on those lands.<\/p>\n<p>According to the interim Oslo Accords signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel in 1993, the West Bank is divided into three zones: A, B and C, with Area A under Palestinian control, B under Israeli security and Palestinian administrative control, and C under full Israeli control.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry stressed that Israel must be held accountable for its violations and should retract its unilateral measures, most significantly the settlement activity, in order to save the two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Israel is trying to take over natural resources for the benefit of Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the EU Commission in Jerusalem told Xinhua that the EU demanded Israel to stop its policy of demolishing the EU-sponsored projects for Palestinians in Area C, which were carried out for humanitarian and development purposes.<\/p>\n<p>World powers, including the United States, have condemned the Israeli settlement polity which is considered one of the main disputes between the Palestinians and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The US-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been stalled since April 2014. They lasted for nine months with no tangible results achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH\u2014The Palestinians on Sunday called for a binding international resolution to stop the Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-original","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}