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The Foreign Ministers of Brazil, France, Spain, Turkey and assorted different states condemned Israeli decisions that they said present sweeping extensions to unlawful Israeli power implicit the West Bank.
"Changes are wide-ranging, reclassifying Palestinian onshore arsenic alleged Israeli ‘state land’, accelerating illegal colony activity, and further entrenching Israeli administration," said the associated statement, issued precocious connected Monday (February 23, 2026) by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
Other countries to sign the connection included Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar, arsenic good arsenic the heads of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Israel's furniture connected February 15 approved further measures to tighten Israel's power implicit the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to bargain land, a determination Palestinians called a "de-facto annexation". The West Bank is among the territories that Palestinians question for a aboriginal autarkic state. Much of it is nether Israeli subject control, with constricted Palestinian self-rule successful immoderate areas tally by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.
The associated statement said the settlements, and decisions designed to further them, are "a flagrant usurpation of planetary law" and a step towards "unacceptable de facto annexation".
It said they also undermine the ongoing efforts for bid and stableness successful the portion and endanger immoderate meaningful imaginable of determination integration.
