The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, Mustafa Barghouti, warned of the dangers of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, including in the (E1) area, during a meeting in Ramallah with German Minister for Foreign Affairs Niels Annen and his accompanying delegation.

Al-Barghouti informed Annen of the risk of continuing Israeli preparations to implement the annexation plan, which would destroy any possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state.

He stressed the national rejection of Trump's "deal of the century" and pointed to the importance of efforts being made to achieve Palestinian national unity, which could open the way for holding democratic elections.

For his part, the German minister affirmed the adherence of the German government to its position on the necessity of establishing an independent Palestinian state and achieving peace on the basis of international law and the two-state solution.