Palestine says Colombia’s opening of embassy in West Jerusalem violates international law

Palestine said Wednesday that Colombia’s opening of an embassy in West Jerusalem violates international law and UN resolutions, Anadolu reports. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the opening constituted “a flagrant violation of international law and relevant UN resolutions, and an assault on the Palestinian people and their just and legitimate national rights.” It stressed that all measures and decisions to change the legal and historical status of Jerusalem are “null and void and have no legal effect.” It said that “opening an embassy to Israel in occupied Jerusalem violates international legitimacy resolutions, particularly UN Security Council Resolutions 476 and 478.” The two resolutions that were adopted in 1980 affirm the illegality and invalidity of Israeli measures intended to alter the […]