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Palestine calls for placing Israeli settlers on terror lists amid surge in violence

Sunday, 11 August 2024 5:18 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 11 August 2024 7:12 PM ]

In this file picture, extremist Jewish settlers fire at Palestinians while Israeli soldiers stand by in the northern occupied West Bank town of Huwara on October 13, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Palestine has called on the international community to place the Israeli extremist settlers on their terror lists and to immediately intervene to stop the crimes perpetrated by them against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry made the appeal in a statement on Sunday, amid a surge in violent assaults by extremist Jewish settlers across the occupied Palestinian territories.

The ministry went on to say that "extremist settler gangs" continue to commit “crimes and violations” against Palestinians, including burning farmlands and vandalizing Palestinian property.

“We appeal for an urgent international intervention to halt crimes perpetuated by settler gangs,” it said, urging world countries to place the Israeli settler groups on their terror lists and prosecute its members for war crimes.

With all eyes on Gaza, Israel quietly ups its brutal aggression in West Bank

Tension hangs in the air in an occupied West Bank village nestled amid rolling hills and olive groves. Out of nowhere, a deafening roar of helicopter blades resonates there, exacerbating tensions.

The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has seen a surge in violence particularly since the occupying regime launched its brutal war on the Gaza Strip in early October last year.

Nearly 620 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers across the West Bank since October 7 and almost 5,400 others have been injured.

Illegal settlers have carried out 1,530 attacks in the West Bank since the start of this year, according to data from the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.

Back in July, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s presence in the 1967-occupied Palestinian territories is “unlawful” and must end.

The 83-page advisory opinion outlined a wide list of policies that it said violated international law, including the building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east al-Quds.

Israeli settlers continue raids into West Bank, setting homes, cars ablaze

Hundreds of Israeli extremist settlers, protected by the regime’s forces, have raided several towns in the occupied West Bank for the second consecutive day, hurling stones at passing vehicles and setting ablaze homes.

Meanwhile, the President of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh has condemned Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz’s remarks about the Jenin refugee camp, saying they are an attempt to justify ongoing Israeli aggression in the West Bank.

Earlier in the day, Katz claimed that the Jenin refugee camp is “a terrorist hub,” saying the regime “should temporarily evacuate its residents to a secure location and thoroughly dismantle the terrorist infrastructure within the camp, as was done in Gaza.”

Fattouh said that “this is part of the silent war launched by Israel on the West Bank, and it includes everything from land confiscation to home demolitions and destruction of refugee camps”.

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