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Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hanan Ashrawi, affirmed that the US declaration on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories shows that the US administration poses a threat to international peace and security.
"The United States has no right to rewrite international law and distort the existing international system based on its distorted ideological tendencies," Ashrawi said in a statement carried by Wafa.
"Israeli settlements constitute a serious violation of international law, including international humanitarian law, and are a war crime under the Rome Statute. These are facts and assumptions that the Trump administration cannot change or erase," Ashrawi said.
Ashrawi pointed out that this declaration reaffirms that the Trump administration is a threat to international peace and security and that it is a partner in the crimes of the Israeli occupation and provides political cover for its escalating violations, stressing the need for the international community to take a unified position that amounts to the danger posed by the administration's policy towards the international system.