Palestinian Foreign Ministry: the occupation continues its plans to annex the West Bank and further entrench the apartheid regime

Occupied Al-Quds (ST) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the Israeli occupation continues to implement its plans to annex the occupied West Bank and deepen the apartheid regime. It noted that the Palestinian people are not only a victim of the occupation, but also a victim of the international double standards and of the failure of the international community and the UN in implementing international law.

In a statement reported by Wafa News Agency, the Ministry stated that it continues its work to expose the crimes of the occupation and its settlers, as a gross violation of the international law and disregard of international legitimacy. It called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to break their silence and abide the founding charter of the court and the rules and regulations that govern its work away from the policy of double standards, in addition to expedite issuing arrest warrants and summoning all Israeli officials involved in crimes, foremost of which is the settlement.

The Ministry indicated that the return of settlers to the (Homesh) settlement in the northern West Bank and its expansion at the expense of the Palestinian lands and the establishment of a new settlement outpost in the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus, means spreading more bases of terrorism in the West Bank in conjunction with the escalation in the attacks of settler gangs against the Palestinians, their land, property and sanctities.

These attacks call for serious international action to oblige the occupation to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy.

In another development, the Israeli occupation forces invaded the eastern outskirts of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Palestinian media reported that 9 military vehicles of the occupation and 14 bulldozers penetrated east of Jabalia and east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and swept away swaths of land.

Yesterday, the occupation forces moved east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, and fired poison gas bombs at Palestinian farmers, forcing them to leave their lands.

K.Q. , Najla Khoury