Palestine’s Foreign Ministry condemned on Sunday the violations and crimes committed by Israeli settler militias and their armed elements against innocent Palestinians in villages, towns, camps, and cities across the occupied West Bank, including shooting at civilians, burning their homes and cars, and severing the West Bank’s territories.
In its statement, Palestine’s ministry noted that organized settler terrorism has reached unprecedented levels under the protection of the occupation army.
It emphasized that these terrorist militias derive encouragement, support, and backing for their terrorism from various levels of the political establishment in the occupying state, benefiting from the protection and immunity provided by the occupation apparatus and its various arms, to deepen the ongoing gradual annexation crimes of the West Bank, undermine efforts to resolve the conflict through political means, and undermine the opportunity to realize the Palestinian state on the ground, according to the Palestinian news agency “WAFA.”
The Palestinian foreign ministry held the occupation government and the extremist right-wing coalition fully and directly responsible for these inciting calls, considering them an extension of the occupation’s supremacist and racist mentality that denies the existence of the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination in their homeland.
The ministry called on the international community to urgently intervene to compel the occupation government to halt all its colonial activities, dismantle armed settler organizations and militias, withdraw their weapons, halt their funding, and hold accountable those who support and protect them.
It also urged the imposition of mandatory international sanctions on the entire settlement system as illegal and illegitimate.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry also called on the International Criminal Court to swiftly issue arrest warrants against settler extremists and their backers who commit crimes against Palestinians and to bring them to international justice.
