Ekmeleddin Ihsan oglu, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, expressed strong condemnation of the Israeli authorities' decision to approve construction of 3000 settlement units in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
Ihsan oglu considered such resolution as defiance to the will of the international community that has rejected the occupation and its policies by voting in favor of the state of Palestine in the General Assembly of the United Nations.
He also said in a press statement on Sunday that the continuation of expanding and building settlements on Palestinian territories requires the intervention of the concerned international bodies, particularly the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, to shoulder their responsibilities towards what is happening in Palestine, including the Israeli violations and attacks, considered as war crimes.
The Israeli government had approved a plan to build three thousand new settlement units in the West Bank and the occupied city of Jerusalem, less than 24 hours after the UN decision to grant Palestine the status of "a non-member observer state", which Tel Aviv considered contrary to the agreements it signed with the Palestinian Authority.
