By Wallace Mawire/Zimbabwe/Harare
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine has strongly condemned the calculated and organized attacks carried out yesterday by settler militias across various cities, villages, and towns in the occupied West Bank. These assaults reflect a dangerous escalation in systematic and widespread settler terrorism, supported and coordinated by the Israeli occupation authorities and army.
The Ministry noted that settlers’ assaults on villages; including the burning of homes and property, terrorizing and killing of civilians, and the targeting of vital roads, junctions, and main streets during Eid al-Fitr, alongside decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities to continue their genocidal war against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as the ongoing closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, constitute a coordinated strategy across the occupation’s apparatus. These measures are part of deliberate tactics aimed at deepening the genocidal war through the settler colonial regime, all of which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Ministry expressed its appreciation for the positions of countries that have condemned these crimes and called on the international community to take concrete measures rather than limiting itself to statements. It urged the fulfillment of international responsibilities and obligations in implementing UN resolutions, disarming settlers, and holding them accountable for acts of terrorism, including insisting them on international terrorism lists, imposing travel bans, freezing their funds and assets, and targeting the financial networks and goods associated with settlements.
The Ministry affirmed its continued diplomatic efforts to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, activate international mechanisms endorsed by the international system, and hold the Israeli colonial regime as a whole, along with all those responsible, accountable in order to deter the commission of such crimes. It added that this comes amid what it described as Israel’s exploitation of international preoccupation with the ongoing Israeli-American-Iranian conflict.
