Since its occupation to Jerusalem, Israel continues imposing unilateral measures aiming at changing the demographic and geographic realities in the city along with taking aggressive measures against the Palestinian citizens remaining there. Israel continues taking these measures unilaterally with total disregard to relevant international legitimacy resolutions and contrary to Israeli verbal declarations on alleged intentions to build mutual trust and confidence as a pre-requisite for making peace.

 The Ministry of Information considers, with deep concern, the current Israeli escalation to violence and unilateral actions in occupied Jerusalem as a blatant violation to all international legitimacy resolutions on occupied Jerusalem and considers that as a direct ethnic cleansing with total disregard to the ongoing US and international efforts to hold a peace conference to end the conflict.

 Building trust and confidence can never be through aggression, house demolition, forced transfer to citizens or secret excavations under holy shrines in the city, nor it can be through changing and constructing close to these shrines as Israel does in Jerusalem, where all international laws prohibit the occupying power from making any of such unilateral actions.

 The US government and international community have to take immediate actions to stop Israel from wasting the budding opportunity for restarting the peace process in the region and encourage Israel, instead, to take concrete actions for building trust and confidence with the occupied Palestinians.

 The Ministry of Information calls on the UN, US government, Quartet and international community to exert all efforts to pressure Israel into adhering to the international laws and to work for building confidence and making peace in the region.

The Ministry of Information