Riyaz Patel
A draft United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution has condemned American/Israeli plans to annex settlements in the West Bank in a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump’s pro-Israel peace proposal.
The draft text, circulated to council members by Tunisia and Indonesia Tuesday, would most likely face a US veto, but highlighted some members’ dim view of the plan that Trump trumpeted last week with great fanfare.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to speak to the council next week about the plan, possibly coinciding with a vote on the draft resolution.
The resolution “stresses the illegality of the annexation of any part” of occupied Palestinian territories and “condemns recent statements calling for annexation by Israel” of these territories, Reuters reported.
“The Trump plan is just a cover for Israel’s final land grab,” said Jonathan Cook, a British journalist based in Nazareth since 2001 and the the author of
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