{"id":270040,"date":"2022-01-19T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=270040"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:13:26","slug":"statement-by-the-eu-spokesperson-on-developments-in-occupied-east-jerusalem-non-un-document","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-by-the-eu-spokesperson-on-developments-in-occupied-east-jerusalem-non-un-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the EU Spokesperson on Developments in Occupied East Jerusalem (Non-UN Document)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a non-United Nations document. The United Nations provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brussels, 19\/01\/2022 – 22:37, UNIQUE ID: 220119_14<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Wednesday, 19 January, Israeli authorities demolished a family home in the Sheikh\u00a0Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.\u00a0The\u00a0possibility of further evictions of Palestinian\u00a0families from homes they have lived in for decades\u00a0in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem poses the risk of fuelling tensions on the ground and contributes to the worrying trend of increasing numbers of demolitions and evictions in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 17 January the Jerusalem District Committee for Planning and Building decided to advance a plan for the construction of more than 1,450 settlement-housing units between Har Homa and Givat Hamatos for the \u201cLower Aqueduct Plan\u201d, which includes lands in occupied East Jerusalem.\u00a0 The EU urges Israel not to proceed with this plan that would further undermine the possibility of Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both States and to halt all settlement activities.<\/p>\n

Settlement expansion, demolitions and evictions are illegal under international law. They exacerbate tensions, threaten the viability of the two-state solution and diminish prospects for a lasting peace. The EU stands ready to give the parties full support in opening the path towards the relaunch of the peace process as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a non-United Nations document. The United Nations provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the United Nations. Brussels, 19\/01\/2022 – 22:37, UNIQUE ID: 220119_14 On\u00a0Wednesday, 19 January, Israeli authorities demolished a family home in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2209,2029,1741,1961,2185,2137],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-270040","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-expulsions-and-deportations","document-subject-house-demolitions","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-settlements","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/270040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/270040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=270040"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=270040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}