The European Union’s envoy to the Middle East peace process, Susana Trustal, confirmed that the Israeli occupation’s bid to build new settlement units between the cities of occupied Jerusalem and Bethlehem is a “very worrying development.”
"I visited the region last month and saw on the ground how any settlement construction in this key site would harm the prospects for a viable two-state solution with Jerusalem as the future capital of both countries, and there is an urgent need for Israel to step back from it," Trustal said in a statement. Her decision. "
