Brazil has strongly condemned Israel’s expansionist “E1” illegal colonial project, warning that it poses a grave geopolitical threat to the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state by severing occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
In an official statement, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the plan as a colonial maneuver that would further fragment Palestinian land and undermine its territorial integrity.
“This colonial scheme risks splitting the West Bank into northern and southern enclaves, while isolating East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied territory,” the statement read. “Brazil views this Israeli action as a geopolitical escalation that endangers the existence of the State of Palestine and constitutes a clear violation of international law.”
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The ministry emphasized that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has affirmed the illegality of Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territories. It reiterated that Israel is obligated to immediately halt all colonial expansion.
“Brazil reaffirms the Palestinian people’s right to an independent and sovereign state,” the statement added, urging Israel to refrain from unilateral measures that jeopardize the two-state solution and threaten prospects for a just and lasting peace in the region.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
