The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has reaffirmed that the silence of the international community over the Israeli crime of settlement building is a kind of collusion with the occupation and a form of participation in this crime, stressing that this silence gives Israel the time to complete its crime and form a cover to impose a fait accompli.

In a statement reported by WAFA news agency, the ministry clarified that the Israeli occupation is expanding settlement operations in the West Bank to implement colonial annexation plans and eliminate any opportunity for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned the European Union for imposing sanctions on Iran at a time when Tehran and the signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal are engaged in a diplomatic process in Vienna to save the troubled agreement, Press TV reported.

Speaking after talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javaz Zarif, on Tuesday, Lavrov said the European sanctions could undermine the negotiations in the Austrian capital to revitalize the nuclear deal in the Austrian capital.

    “We expect that it will be possible to preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” said the top Russian diplomat, adding, “As far as we understand, our partners in Tehran have expressed their readiness to immediately move in that direction” if Washington returns to compliance with the deal it abandoned.

  However, he added, the latest EU sanctions gave rise to “a huge amount of questions.”

The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday detained three Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank

WAFA news agency reported that the occupation forces raided the city of Al-Bireh and the town of Al-Tur in occupied Al-Quds as well as Kherbet Al-Fariseyeh area in the Northern Jordan valley and detained three Palestinians.  

On Monday, the occupation forces also detained 28 Palestinians in the West Bank.

Slovak university professor František Shakvranda has stressed that the presence of the US occupation troops in Syria is illegal as it flagrantly violates the international law.

In an article published on Tuesday, the Slovak academic also warned against the destructive role being played by the Turkish occupation in Syria, pointing out that this occupation keeps supporting terrorist organizations in the country and continues, along with the United States, to loot and smuggle Syria’s oil.

He indicated that the American policies towards Syria impede reaching a political solution to the crisis in the country.