7-12-05,8:26am

PALESTINE, July12,2005 (IPC+Agencies)--- The Prime Minister Ahamd Qurei announced that the Palestinian National Authorities will formally request the UN general assembly and Security Council to press on Israel to stop the Apartheid Wall.

Qurei acted furiously to the Israeli cabinet decision on the Jerusalem wall, calling it 'theft in daylight' of land Palestinians seek for the capital of their future state.

The Israeli continuation of the apartheid wall is a gross violation and a blow in the face of the entire world and a message from Israeli to the world that it never complies to the international legitimacy, 'Qure said. He also made clear that the PNA will call upon the Arab foreign ministers and the foreign minister of organization of Islamic conferences to convene a meeting on the issue.

Qurei responded harshly to the Israeli cabinet decision on the Jerusalem wall, calling it 'theft in broad daylight' of land Palestinians seek for the capital of their future state.

Solana, who came to the region to meet with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, expressed the EU's opposition to the Jerusalem section of the wall because it cuts through the West Bank, which is the same reason the EU has objected to the wall as a whole.

'We think that Israel has the right to defend itself, but we think that the fence, which will stand outside the territory of Israel, is not legally proper, and it creates also humanitarian problems,' Solana told reporters in Jerusalem.

In the same course, Minister Haim Ramon, the minister in charge of the wall portfolio said Monday that the Jerusalem route is meant to ensure a Jewish majority in the Jerusalem as well as to keep out terrorists.

The Israeli cabinet approval on the completion the wall in early September synchronizes with the Israeli announcement of completing the withdrawal from Gaza Strip , requesting the

United State to further funds about $ 2.2 million to cover the disengagement expenditures and sent out a delegation to Washington on such regard.

On his part, the foreign Affair Minister Nasser al Kidwa stressed that Israel must stop immediately the construction works of the apartheid wall and dismantle existing sections and null all the laws and regulations pertaining the wall .

Al kidawa's remarks came out in the a meeting held by the foreign affair ministry Monday in Rammallah on the occasion of the first anniversary of The ICJ ruling at Hague , over 'the legal impacts of the apartheid wall '

He heeded the attention that the countries must not recognize the illegal status resulted in the construction of the apartheid wall and should ensure the Israeli compliance with the international humanitarian law in the letter of the Geneva Convention and the United Nation in particular the general assembly and Security Council to look in the required needs to halt the illegal status resulted in the construction of the Wall.

Al kidawa also demanded the Quartet to take a clear position based on the legal advisory opinion of the international court of Justice.