The international community is raising voices against Israel as it recently decided to officially register the land in the West Bank belonging to the Palestinian territory as its “state property”.

The foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar issued a joint statement to assert that Israel has no qualifications to have sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory.

Denouncing Israel’s measure as a blatant violation of international law that endangers the two states solution, they called on the international community to fulfil its legal and moral responsibilities to stop Israel’s dangerous moves to expand the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

The Jordanian King warned that Israel’s measure related to land registration is obstructing the detente process in the region and might deteriorate the Palestine-Israel dispute.

Foreign ministries of Jordan, Pakistan and other countries issued statements to brand Israel’s act as a clear violation of international law and relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly sessions and asserted that to establish an independent state of Palestine is the only way to ensure regional security and stability and achieve just and comprehensive peace.

As to the recent decision of the Israeli cabinet on tightening control of the West Bank, a spokesman for the European Commission dubbed it a wrong step.

In its advisory opinion made public as to the legal results of Israel’s policy and practices in the Palestinian territory, the International Court of Justice judged as illegal the act of changing the legal, historical and demographic status of an occupied territory, holding a territory by force of arms or forcing the new composition of population.

Israel’s measure of land registration is a product of its persistent wild ambition for territorial expansion and establishment of the great Israeli empire in the Middle East.

It began to build Jewish settlements soon after occupying the West Bank and East al-Quds through the Middle East War it started in June 1967. The Israelis indiscriminately arrested, expelled and killed those who protested against it and demolished their living bases by mobilizing bulldozers and tanks.

At present, over 700 000 Jews accounting for 10 percent of the Israeli population are living in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds. Not content with that, Israel is now running wild to seize all the land of the Palestinians.

The acts of Israel running amok for territorial expansion in defiance of international law and the denunciation from the international community are the main factor worsening the regional situation.