Introduction
Within days, the occupied State of Palestine will bid farewell to a year of harsh events that affected it politically, economically and geographically, while it will welcome another year with an unknown fate in light of the escalating and unilateral Israeli settlement activities that had the greatest impact on the entire Palestinian society and was not separate from another crisis that struck the Palestinian society a s a result of the spread of the Covid-19 virus that swept the country on the fifth of March of last year (2020), caused the loss of human lives and caused economic paralysis in the region. 2021 will bring down its curtain on the reality of continuous Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which poses a threat to the Palestinian cause from all sides, reduces the chances of a viable two-state solution in line with United Nations resolutions, international laws and norms and signed agreements, and undermines international and local efforts aimed at resuming the peace process and the right of Palestinians to establish their independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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Prepared by:
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem
