Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that there will be no Palestinian state, Agence France-Presse reported, citing his remarks made at a signing ceremony for a major project in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
"We will keep our promise: there will be no Palestinian state, this place belongs to us," Netanyahu said at an event organized in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located just east of Jerusalem.
"We will preserve our heritage, our land and our security. "We will double the population of the city," he added during the ceremony, which was broadcast live on television.
Last month, Israel approved a key project to build 3,400 homes in the West Bank, which was condemned by the United Nations and international leaders because the project, known as E1, would divide that Palestinian territory in two, compromising the territorial integrity of a possible Palestinian state.