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EU's Kallas says Israeli settlement plan breaches international law
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Posted on August 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
EU's Kaja Kallas criticizes Israel's settlement plan for violating international law, urging a halt to construction to protect the two-state solution.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that an Israeli settlement plan is not in line with international law, and she called on Israeli authorities not to move ahead with it.
Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has announced that work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem.
"The decision of Israeli authorities to advance the E1 settlement plan further undermines the two-state solution while being a breach of international law," Kallas said in a statement. "The EU reiterates its call on Israel to halt settlement construction," she added.
(Reporting by Lili Bayer; Editing by Leslie Adler)
The two-state solution refers to a proposed resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocating for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
In international law, a settlement refers to a community established by a country in territory it occupies, which can raise legal and ethical concerns regarding sovereignty and rights of local populations.
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