European Union deplores building more Israeli settlements in the West bank

European Union has denounced the Israeli announcement of its intense to build 600 settlement units in the occupied West Bank and to build the racial separation wall in the same region in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a statement to SANA's correspondent in Brussels Yesterday, Speaker of the European Commissioner for the Foreign Affairs, Emma Edwin stressed that the Israeli practices hinder the realization of peace in the region referring to the European Union states Foreign Ministers' call on Israel to stop its policy of settlement and to freeze building the racial separation wall.