The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry has condemned the Israeli government’s plan to build hundreds of new settlements in occupied territory.

The plan includes 800 new units in Givat Salit in the West Bank and 256 in Nofei Prat to the east of Jerusalem. The decision to build more settlements was taken at a meeting of various Israeli officials, including Police Commander Avi Bitton, Vice President of the Knesset Moshe Veglin, the Likud Rabbi Yehuda Glick, and representatives from the Office of Homeland Security.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry slammed the plan as an attempt to further colonize Palestinian territory and said it laid bare the false claims of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had frozen settlement projects in the West Bank.

The ministry called on the international community, and the Quartet comprising the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia, to censure Israel. It said that such decisions are bound to destroy all attempts at negotiating a two-state solution.

The ministry called on the Islamic and Arab world to support the Palestinian people in defending the holy sites in the region, particularly the Al-Aqsa mosque.

The ministry also denounced the request of Miri Regev, the chairperson of the Knesset interior committee, for the Israeli police to provide protection for dozens of Jewish extremists who planned to be at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the Hanukkah celebrations, which started on Thursday, Nov. 28.

It appealed to regional and international organizations to document and monitor Israel’s breaches of international laws and various Geneva conventions, and to prosecute the criminals in international courts.