Palestinian Foreign ministry condemns Israeli settlers’ escalating crimes against the Palestinian people

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in a statement on Friday the escalation of the Israeli settlers’ crimes against the Palestinian people, stressing that the silence of the international community and its disability to stop these crimes encourage the occupation and the settlers go further in their criminality and violations of the International Humanitarian Law.

The ministry noted the crime of killing of a Palestinian youth identified as “Alaa Qaysiyeh” on Friday at the hands of armed terrorist-organized settler gangs, protected by the occupation forces, in the town of Ad-Dhahiriya to the south of the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).

The ministry further denounced the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinian residents, their land, properties and crops yesterday in an area located between the villages of al-Mughayyir and Turmus Ayya to the east of Ramallah, which resulted in the injury of several farmers and the burning of five vehicles and agricultural crops.

The attack was carried out under the protection and support of the Israeli soldiers, who did nothing to stop the settlers but rather joined in on the attack, according to WAFA News Agency.

The ministry also condemned the closure imposed by the occupation forces on the entrances of al-Mughayyir village for the 14th consecutive day.

It held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for the crimes of settlers and the provocative attacks carried out by armed and organized groups who receive training and arms from the occupation forces that practice the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people, their land, properties, and holy sites.

The ministry expressed its astonishment over the international community’s silence over these crimes and the disregard shown by western countries toward the life of the Palestinian citizen, stating that the world must realize that our people are nearly losing their trust in the ability of the United Nations and its organizations to provide protection to them against the brutality of the occupation and armed settler gangs.

Hamda Mustafa