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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Wednesday said that the “dangerous and suspicious” calls made by a far-right Israeli minister to deepen settlement and annex the occupied West Bank confirm the occupation’s approach of destabilizing security and stability in the region
GCC Secretary General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said in a statement that such calls reflect the Israeli occupation’s “insistence on undermining peace opportunities and its blatant defiance of international conventions, as well as its continued violation of all laws and norms.”
The Israeli minister in question was not named in the statement, but the GCC statement came after Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich, a settler leader, has long called for annexation of the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which is among territories the Palestinians seek for a future independent state.
Albudaiwi called on “the international community to take immediate and deterrent measures to stop these” such statements.