国际英语资讯:Palestinians to launch protests against U.S. declaration over Israeli settlements_时事

国际英语资讯:Palestinians to launch protests against U.S. declaration over Israeli settlements

Aloul said that the Palestinian leadership is mulling ways "to protect the Palestinian cause."

Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat told the official Palestinian radio station, voice of Palestine, that Palestine will raise all outstanding issues to the ICC general commission expected next month.

He said that Palestine will ask the ICC judicial council to open an investigation into the "crimes of the Israeli occupation, and publish the database of companies dealing with products manufactured in the illegal Israeli settlements."

He added that international human rights organizations should "defend human rights and combat war crimes and not be subject to any political blackmail from any country."

Last Week, Pompeo said that the United States considers "the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law," and that the United States was not weighing in on the legality of any individual settlement, leaving that to Israeli courts.

He also said that this should not be read as a statement on the final status of the West Bank, which is "for the Israelis and the Palestinians to negotiate."

Around half a million Israeli settlers live in the West Bank settlements, including East Jerusalem.

Israeli settlement activity is deemed illegal by most world powers and under international law. It is considered one of the issues that hindered the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis, which collapsed in 2017.