Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Israeli settler terrorism requires immediate international protection for the Palestinians

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the attacks by armed settler gangs on Palestinians during the olive harvest season and their theft in many areas of the West Bank, and their burning and cutting down of hundreds of olive trees, constitute organized state terrorism that comes within the framework of the war of extermination and displacement waged by the occupation forces to undermine any opportunity to establish the Palestinian state on the ground.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs added in a statement today, reported by the WAFA news agency: “The occupation seeks, through its invasion of the occupied West Bank, the seizure of Palestinian lands, and the deepening of the crimes of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian presence, the consolidation of its annexation of the West Bank and the entrenchment of the hateful apartheid system.  This issue necessitates activating the international protection system in the service of the Palestinian people and immediately implementing the UN General Assembly resolution adopting the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice to end the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine within 12 months, and imposing deterrent international sanctions on the occupation to force it to stop the war of extermination and the crimes of the settlers against the Palestinians”.

The ministry explained that the international failure to stop the war of extermination and displacement has become a cover for the occupation and the settler gangs to continue their attacks on the Palestinian people’s just and legitimate national rights to return, freedom and independence.

Souha Suleiman