Ramallah (UNA/WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called on the international community to take practical steps to force the Israeli occupation to stop its expansionist colonial projects and plans, and to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, in preparation for enabling them to exercise their right to self-determination on their homeland without occupation or colonialism..
The ministry condemned in a statement issued on Tuesday the escalation in the violations and crimes committed by settler militias against citizens, their land and property in the West Bank, under the protection and supervision of the occupation army, which at the same time continues to commit more crimes and systematically destroy infrastructure in the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates and their camps..
She pointed out that she views with great concern the official Israeli statements and positions issued successively by officials in the Israeli government to incite the desecration of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, especially Smotrich’s incitement, in which he boasted about demolishing more Palestinian homes than the Palestinians will build in 2025, in a systematic consecration of the occupation and colonial settlement, and the completion of the gradual annexation of the West Bank..
The ministry said that the international failure to implement the UN resolutions on the Palestinian issue, especially Resolution 2334, has become a cover that the Israeli government is exploiting to give its militias a free hand to seize more land and impose its control over large parts of it, which undermines any opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground, and excludes peaceful political solutions to the conflict, replacing them with an endless cycle of violence, which serves the interests of the Israeli right in satisfying its desires and implementing the colonists’ programs to remain in power..
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