{"id":193360,"date":"2016-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193360"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:35:52","slug":"auto-insert-193360","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193360\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Concerned about Israel&#8217;s Decision to Endorse Additional Housing Units and Retroactively Approve Existing Units &#8211; EEAS Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27313%27%20height%3D%27174%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20313%20174%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27313%27%20height%3D%27174%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/83c96222b994379b85258026005260ea_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"174px\" width=\"313px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#104160;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>New settlements units in the occupied West Bank<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Brussels, 01\/09\/2016 &#8211; 22:59 &#8211; UNIQUE ID: 160901_6<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Statement by the Spokesperson on the approval of new settlements units in the occupied West Bank<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Israeli decision yesterday to endorse an additional 463 housing units in the occupied West Bank and to retroactively approve 179 existing units is a serious concern. Since January 2016, Israeli authorities have promoted or retroactively legalised 2,706 units in West Bank settlements.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/F1675AA83BC132BB85257FF7006BC523.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Quartet report<\/a><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;published last July identified such action as undermining the prospects for peace and steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution and recommended that any expansion of settlements be frozen. The EU reiterates its strong opposition to Israel&#39;s settlement policy and all actions taken in this context.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>FOR FURTHER DETAILS:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Maja Kocijancic +32 (0)498 984 425 &#8211; +32 (0)2 298 65 70 &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:Maja.Kocijancic@ec.europa.eu\" style=\"color:#004080;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Maja.Kocijancic@ec.europa.eu<\/a><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;@MajaEUspox<br \/>\nNabila Massrali +32 (0)460 75 41 75 &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;+32 (0)2 29 69218 &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:Nabila.Massrali@ec.europa.eu\" style=\"color:#004080;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Nabila.Massrali@ec.europa.eu<\/a><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;&#8211; @NabilaEUspox<br \/>\nLauranne Devill&#233;&nbsp;&nbsp;+32 (0)460 758 775&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; +32 (0)2 29 80833 &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:lauranne.deville@ec.europa.eu\" style=\"color:#004080;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">lauranne.deville@ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/headquarters\/headquarters-homepage\/9195\/new-settlements-units-in-the-occupied-west-bank_en\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">http:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/headquarters\/headquarters-homepage\/9195\/new-settlements-units-in-the-occupied-west-bank_en<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New settlements units in the occupied West Bank Brussels, 01\/09\/2016 &#8211; 22:59 &#8211; UNIQUE ID: 160901_6 Statement by the Spokesperson on the approval of new settlements units in the occupied West Bank The Israeli decision yesterday to endorse an additional 463 housing units in the occupied West Bank and to retroactively approve 179 existing units <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193360\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1741,1805,2137],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-193360","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-occupation","document-subject-settlements","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=193360"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=193360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}