The president of the American room Mike Johnson visits the Israeli colony of the West Bank | News Israel-Palestine Conflict

Mike Johnson, the best legislator in the American Congress, visited an illegal settlement in the occupation West Bankattracting the condemnation of the Palestinians.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on Monday the trip by the president of the American House of Representatives a “blatant violation of international law”.

Johnson, who is the following online for the American presidency after the president and vice-president, is the highest American official to visit an Israeli colony of the West Bank.

His journey comes in the middle of climbing the violence of the settlers against the Palestinian communities who killed two American citizens in July.

The Israeli army has also intensified its murderous raids, its home demolitions and its travel campaigns in the West Bank while it makes its brutal assault and blockade is Gaza.

Johnson’s visit contradicts the Arab and American efforts to “end the cycle of violence” as well as Washington’s public position against the “attacks” of the colonists, said the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The ministry affirms that any regulation activity is not valid and illegal and undermines the possibility of implementing the solution to two states and of achieving peace,” he added.

According to Israeli media, Johnson visited Ariel’s colony on Monday, north of Ramallah.

“Judea and Samaria are the front lines of the State of Israel and must remain an integral part,” said Johnson, quoted by the Journal of Jerusalem Post, using a biblical name for the West Bank.

“Even if the world thinks the opposite, we stand with you.”

The comments of the Chamber’s speaker seem to be in reference to recent measures by certain Western countries – including allies close to the United States and Israel – to recognize a Palestinian state.

“Illegal under international law”

The Israeli colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. The International Court of Justice, the first United Nations court, reaffirmed this position Last year, claiming that the presence of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and had to end “as quickly as possible”.

Asked about Johnson’s visit, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told journalists on Monday: “Our point of view on the colonies, as you know, is that they are illegal by virtue of international law.”

Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed the entire holy city in 1980.

Successive Israeli governments have built Jewish colonies only in the landland on land that would be the house of a Palestinian state if a two -state solution should materialize.

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers now live in occupied West Bank.

The Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, prohibits power occupying from transferring “certain parts of its own civilian population in the territory it occupies”.

While the Oslo agreements have granted municipal authorities to the Palestinian authority on certain parts of the West Bank, the whole region remains under the control of Israeli security.

Israel also controls the airspace and the entrance ports in the territory.

The Israeli settlers in the West Bank have complete citizenship rights, while the Palestinians live under the Israeli military regime, where they can be indefinitely detainee at no cost.

The main rights groups have accused Israel of imposing a Apartheid system On the Palestinians.

‘It is a question of faith for us’

For decades, the United States has publicly rejected the West Bank’s regulations and called for a solution to two states despite Israel’s billions of military aid.

However, US President Donald Trump adopted an American policy Israel’s favorRefusing to criticize the expansion of the regulation or to undertake to support a Palestinian state.

Many Republicans, for their part, have long expressed support in Israel from a theological point of view, arguing that it is a Christian religious duty to support the American ally.

“Our prayer is that America will always be held with Israel. We pray for the preservation and peace of Jerusalem. This is what writing tells us. It is a question of faith for us,” said Johnson on Sunday during a visit to the Western wall.

In an article on social networks, Marc Zell, president of the American Republicans abroad Israel, cited Johnson as well as the mountains of the West Bank are “the legitimate property of the Jewish people”.