The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Amin Madani, expressed his strong condemnation of the decision taken by the Israeli occupation authorities to approve the construction of 1400 colonial settlement units in the West Bank including the occupied City of Holy Quds, stressing that the Israeli colonial settlement activities are illegal, in blatant violation of the resolutions of international legitimacy, and susceptible to undermine all chances of progress in the peace process and the two-state solution. In a press statement, the OIC Secretary General called on the international community to assume its responsibility and take a firm stand to put an end to the Israeli colonial settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories including the City of Holy Quds, reminding the major states of the publicly announced official stands against the Israeli settlement projects, and inviting them to affirm their real political will and give concrete meaning to their stands, politically and economically, vis-à-vis Israel. The Secretary General also called on civil society organizations to take an effective mass-level stand towards the racist Israeli colonial settlement practices.
