"The development of illegal settlements does not give legitimacy to the Israeli regime," the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas said, slamming Israel's plan to build new settlements in the West Bank.

Iran PressMiddle East: In a statement on Sunday, Hamas said it "condemns in the strongest possible terms the frenzied campaign launched by the Zionist occupation authorities to Judaise our Palestinian land as settler-colonial projects that will not grant the Israeli occupation legitimacy over our land."

"Hamas calls on the international community, particularly the United Nations, to take serious, swift action to put an end to these Judaisation projects that will escalate the situation and pose a threat to world peace and security," the Resistance movement indicated in the statement.

It also called for "criminalizing colonial settlement expansion as it blatantly violates international laws and resolutions."

Earlier, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), announced that the Palestinian Authority decided to boycott the meeting of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) with Tel Aviv, which was scheduled to be held on Monday.

It is noteworthy that last week, three Zionist and US officials told Axios that the regime informed President Joe Biden's administration that it intends to announce in late June the building and planning of thousands of new "housing units" in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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