(14 Aug 2025)
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Ramallah, West Bank – 14 August 2025
1. Wide of Ahmed al Deek, a political adviser to the Palestinian foreign minister
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al Deek, adviser to the Palestinian foreign minister:
"This decision is a colonial, expansionist, and racist move — a direct threat that could ignite the entire conflict. For us, this is an old-new project that was frozen more than twenty years ago. It falls within the framework of the extremist Israeli government’s plans to undermine any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state on the ground, to fragment the West Bank, and to separate its southern part from the center and the north.”
3. Close of al Deek’s hands
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al Deek, adviser to the Palestinian foreign minister:
"We view this decision with utmost seriousness and consider it a dangerous alarm bell that threatens the two-state solution. For us, it marks the beginning of a political and diplomatic campaign to warn the world about the dangers of this project in the E1 area. We call on the international community and all states to take responsibility by pressuring the Israeli government to immediately halt its implementation in order to safeguard the two-state solution."
5. Flags of different countries inside the building of the Palestinian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al Deek, adviser to the Palestinian foreign minister:
"The Israeli government has clearly taken a decision to attempt to eliminate the Palestinian cause and push it off the international agenda. Part of what this government is doing is a direct response to the wave of international recognitions of the State of Palestine and to the global solidarity marches demanding that governments take action to stop the crimes of genocide, forced displacement, and annexation. These movements are also calling for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for enabling the Palestinian people to realize their state on the ground."
7. Various of Palestinian Ministry for Foreign Affairs building
STORYLINE:
Israel’s far-right finance minister announced a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday which Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts.
Ahmed al Deek, a political adviser to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, on Thursday called on the international community and all states to take responsibility by pressuring the Israeli government to immediately halt its implementation in order to safeguard the two-state solution.
"This decision is a colonial, expansionist, and racist move — a direct threat that could ignite the entire conflict," he said. "For us, this is an old-new project that was frozen more than twenty years ago."
The announcement comes as many countries said they would recognize a Palestinian state in September.
“This reality finally buries the idea of a Palestinian state, because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a ceremony on Thursday.
“Anyone in the world who tries today to recognize a Palestinian state – will receive an answer from us on the ground,” he said.
Development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.
AP Video by Imad Isseid and production by Jalal Bwaitel
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