We – France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom – strongly condemn the large enhance of settler violence in opposition to Palestinian civilians and name for stability within the West Bank. Destabilising exercise dangers undermining the success of the 20 Point Plan for Gaza and prospects for long-term peace and safety.
The variety of assaults has reached new heights, with 264 assaults in October in keeping with OCHA, the most important variety of settlers’ assaults in a single month for the reason that United Nations started recording such incidents in 2006.
These assaults should cease. They sow terror amongst civilians, they’re dangerous to the continued peace efforts and for the lasting safety of the State of Israel itself.
We, ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, name on the Government of Israel to abide by its obligations beneath worldwide legislation and defend the Palestinian inhabitants of the occupied territories. The condemnation of violence by President Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and different senior political and navy figures should be translated into motion. We due to this fact urge the Government of Israel to carry these accountable who’re accountable for these crimes and to forestall additional violence by addressing the foundation causes of this behaviour.
We welcome President Trump’s clear opposition to annexation, and reiterate our opposition to any type of annexation – whether or not partial, whole or de facto – and settlement insurance policies violating worldwide legislation.
After the official approval of the E1 settlement in August 2025, that will fragment the West Bank, greater than 3000 home models’ tasks have been authorised during the last three weeks, mounting to twenty-eight 000 new housing models authorised since January, an all-time excessive. We name upon the Government of Israel to reverse its coverage
The Government of Israel’s continued denial of tax revenues which belong to the Palestinian Authority is unjustifiable. The Government of Israel should launch the tax-revenues, prolong the correspondent banking system between Israeli and Palestinian banks and permit elevated Shekel transfers. These steps are important for the Palestinian residents and the PA’s skill to offer public providers. Weakening the PA undermines its skill to ship its reform agenda and to tackle accountability in Gaza, as envisioned in UN Security Council Resolution 2803. A monetary collapse of the PA would solely hurt regional stability and the safety of Israel itself.
We reaffirm our dedication to a simply and complete decision of the Israeli-Palestinian battle, based mostly on the two-state answer, with the State of Israel and an impartial, democratic, contiguous, sovereign, and viable State of Palestine, dwelling facet by facet in peace and safety and mutual recognition. We reaffirm that there isn’t any different to a negotiated two-state answer.
