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Ramallah, June 29 (RHC) The creation of a Palestinian state and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals in the occupied territories are almost impossible tasks due to the Israeli policy of control and domination, the UN condemned on Wednesday.
This strategy “involves serious violations of international law and deprives the Palestinians of their fundamental right to self-determination,” the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) warned in a report.
The organization called for helping the Palestinian people to reduce economic dependence on Israel, improve their resilience and achieve sustainable development.
The agency explained that Tel Aviv’s plan is to fragment the occupied territories in order to retain control over them.
By maintaining military occupation and preventing the establishment of a viable Palestinian state in accordance with international law, these practices and their
The effects patently deny the equality of both peoples, he stressed.
The Escwa stressed that “the administrative, political and physical fragmentation of the Occupied Territories is essential to consolidating Israeli control over Palestinian land and its resources.”
He warned that the neighboring country uses different criteria to confiscate land and natural resources in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
To maintain dominance over the Palestinians, Israel adopts a two-pronged approach: demographic control and suppression of all forms of resistance, including the disproportionate use of force and collective punishment, and excessive and arbitrary arrests and detentions, he noted.
The organization pointed out that as part of its colonial plans, Tel Aviv seeks to keep the Palestinian territories underdeveloped through measures such as the deliberate destruction of the means of production, an imposed customs union, and restrictions on the use of natural resources and the importation of goods. (font: Latin Press).