Hamas Spokesman Abu Zuhri hails UN call for the evacuation of settlements

The 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.

UN Human Rights Council released a report on Thursday in which it called 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.