Arab League slams West Bank annexation plans as ‘war crime’

Al-Monitor Staff

Apr 30, 2020

Arab Foreign Ministers take part in their 153rd annual session at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on March 4, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images) — Arab foreign ministers take part in their 153rd annual session at Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on March 4, 2020. — MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images

The Arab League says Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank would amount to a war crime and a serious violation of international law if implemented.

"The implementation of plans to annex any part of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 ... and the lands on which Israeli settlements are standing represents a new war crime added to the Israeli record full of brutal crimes against the Palestinian people,” the pan-Arab organization said in a statement.