Ramallah, June 16 (QNA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushed back on any attempt to alter the legal, historical, and political status quo of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry denounced the actions of the occupying authority in abrogating and withdrawing the powers of the Hebron Municipality over parts of the city, including the Ibrahimi Mosque, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger.

It confirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over any part of Hebron or any other Palestinian city, as long as the Palestinian people’s connection to Hebron is grounded in historical and legal rights reaffirmed by international and UN resolutions and the broader corpus of international law.

This is well substantiated by a long-standing presence of Palestinians stretching back thousands of years, which exceeds by far the signed agreements, including the Hebron Protocol concluded in 1997, the ministry noted.

The Ministry recalled that the occupying authorities’ reneging on the signed agreements neither creates a new reality, nor does it establish rights that contradict the rights of the Palestinian people and their sovereignty over their land and resources either.

The statement warned that the persistent use of measures that undermine Palestinian rights over land and resources by occupation authorities, without consequences, would encourage violations to snowball into alarming proportions, push toward the entrenchment of illegal actions, and expose the region to instability while threatening regional security and peace.

The statement called on the international community, its legal institutions, and particularly the United States administration, to urgently spring into action and compel the occupying authorities to reverse all unlawful measures, including those related to the Hebron Protocol, and to rally behind the international effort calling for the enforcement of the two-state solution and the end of the Israeli occupation. (QNA)