Catherine Ashton calls on Israel to reverse settlement expansion

(B2) It is now a well-established ritual for each new Israeli construction in the occupied territories (Palestine). The European Union has just announced through the voice of Catherine Ashton: deplores the Israeli government's plans to build more than 800 additional housing colonies" She recalls that they " are illegal under international law and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible " and calls on the government to " exercise the highest sense of responsibility by reversing these decisions.”
NB: For the Netanyahu government, this is a kind of "compensation" for a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court on May 7, which ordered the dismantling of five residential buildings built on private Palestinian land in Ulpana, in the Beit El settlement. Currently, more than 340 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank.