Official: Palestinian nation not to withdraw from legitimate rights

A senior official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemned the Zionist regime for its attempts to legitimize its illegal settlements on Palestinian lands, and stressed that the Palestinian nation will never give up its legitimate rights. "The occupying regime's decision to legitimize four settlements and the measures taken by the occupiers is a firm reason showing their expansionist and colonial goals and their efforts to render useless every possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Qais Abdulkarim told FNA on Sunday. He said that the Palestinian nation will not accept the imposition of Israel's wills, and stressed that the Palestinian people are seriously seeking to materialize their legitimate rights and will not give up their struggle for forming an independent Palestinian government inside the June 1967 borders with the holy Qods city as its capital. UN Human Rights Council released a report in February in which it called on the Israeli government to evacuate all the settlements set up on Palestinian territories, considering that the presence of those settlements lead to the violation of Palestinians rights. After the report, Hamas movement hailed the report of the UN Human Rights Council which calls for the evacuation of all settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. Sami Abu Zuhri, the movement spokesman, said, "This UN report represents a positive step and is in the right way; but it needs practical steps to force the occupation to comply with it". He called for imposing sanctions to deter the occupation from stealing Palestinian lands and forcibly displacing its people. Abu Zuhri stressed the need to force the occupation authorities to stop the settlement activity and the Judaization policy pursued against the city of Jerusalem. He also asserted that the Palestinian people have the right to confront and resist the settlement building and the occupation crimes by all available means.