Annexation of West Bank by Israel a slap on worlds face: Sarwar.

LAHORE -- Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has termed annexation of West Bank by Israel slap in face of the international community.

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He was talking to the mediamen at Governor House Lahore on Wednesday.

Governor Punjab said that the Israeli decision of annexation of 30% areas of the West Bank is a blatant violation of UN resolutions. Israel has abrogated OSLO Accord. Such annexation would be 'a most serious violation of international law'.

Under international law, annexation is forcible acquisition of territory by one state at the expense of another state.

He said such an act even if sanctified by Israeli law is illegal under international law and would violate the universally acknowledged principle of the 'inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force'.

He further added, the annexation of occupied territory is a serious violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions, and contrary to the fundamental rule affirmed many times by the UN Security Council and the General Assembly that acquisition of territory war or by force is inadmissible.

He said that 53-year-old Israeli occupation is a source of profound human rights violations of the Palestinian people and said these human right violations would only intensify after annexation.

What would be left of the West Bank would be Palestinian Bantustan, islands of disconnected land completely surrounded by Israel and with no...