Israel reacts to ‘systematic process of land seizures’ by Israel

The United States is irked by Israel over reports that regime is planning to build hundreds of new illegal settlement units in Palestine.

The US State Department said on Tuesday that if more settlements are to be built in the West Bank and East al-Quds (East Jerusalem), they will serve as an obstacle to the so-called “two-state solution.”

State Department spokesman John Kirby said US officials were aware of the reports in regard to Tel Aviv’s expansionist policy.

“If true, this report would be the latest step in what seems to be a systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalizations of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution,” Kirby said at a news briefing in Washington, DC.

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