The UAE kicks off a project to double the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank
The UAE has begun supporting a project to double the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
This project came after the UAE’s started to import products from Israeli settlements established in violation of international law in the Palestinian territories.
The first shipment of products from settlements built on the West Bank, which includes olive oil, honey and wine, arrived in the UAE.
According to the 7th Hebrew Channel, the first shipment was sent to the Emirates by the settlement Tora Winery in the “Psagot” settlement, built on Palestinian lands near Ramallah, and which works in the fields of oil, olives, honey and wine.
Settlement support
The channel indicated that marketing wine began early for businessmen and others from foreign countries residing in Dubai.
The head of the West Bank Settlements Council, Yossi Dagan, participated in the shipment boxes’ packaging process, who recently took the initiative to sign agreements to export settlement products to the UAE.
Dagan described what happened as a “historic day” for the settlements, expressing his hope “to transfer similar products to other Arab countries soon.”
He called for increasing settlement construction and pushing for one million Israelis to settle in those settlements to keep them as an economic power.
Palestinian condemnation
The Emirati move to import Israeli settlement products was met with strong Palestinian condemnation.
The Palestinian Ministry of Economic said that the attempt to market Israeli settlements in the UAE is a flagrant violation of international laws and conventions that criminalize settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and dealing with the effort to legitimize it.
The ministry called on the UAE companies to back off and stop this illegal step.
That would enhance the settlement activity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
It added that it circumvents the Palestinian people’s rights to invest in their resources and their land, which is being piracy, with the encouragement of the Donald Trump administration.
The ministry called on the Arab League to take the measures taken to ban the entry of settlement products into the Arab and Islamic markets.
“According to the decisions of the Arab summits, which affirmed that boycotting the Israeli occupation and its colonial regime is one of the effective and legitimate means of resisting it, ending it, saving the two-state solution and the peace process, and confronting Israeli plans seeking to annex Palestinian lands.”
It recalled Security Council Resolution No. 2334, which affirmed that “Israeli” settlements constitute a flagrant violation of international law, and considers the settlements illegal entities.
