Taysir Khalid, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, described the approval of the Secretary of the Israeli Army, Naftali Bennett, to expand the area of the “Efrat” settlement between Bethlehem and Hebron, and start preparations for the construction of 7,000 housing units in the settlement as a very dangerous step and no less dangerous for settlement construction projects in the region called (E1) with the aim of ruining the so-called two-state solution once and for all. He added that the new step came days before the formation of the Netanyahu-Gantz government under direct and urgent directives from Benjamin Netanyahu before Naftali Bennett left the Ministry of the Army to impose his agenda on the work of the emergency government between the Likud party and the Kabul Lavan party and days before the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo In order to appear as a part of the agreed framework between the American administration and the government of Israel, in the context of implementing the annexation plans and imposing sovereignty over the settlements. Khalid praised the effort made by the Israeli “Peace Now” anti-settlement movement and its decision to confront this step on the legal level. He also called for the transfer of the settlement file to the UN Security Council. To check the news, click here