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AMMAN — Palestinian Authority Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh has denounced the “organised terrorism” by Israeli extremists against villages and towns in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement, carried by the Palestine News Agency, WAFA, Abu Rudeineh said that the “the organized terrorism carried out by colonist gangs against Palestinian villages and towns in Jenin, Nablus, Jerusalem, and Hebron in the occupied West Bank is a dangerous escalation of violence.”
Abu Rudeineh said the attacks have included assaults on homes and residents, the burning of agricultural land, the uprooting and destruction of olive trees, damage to private property, and the seizure of water sources.
He said that the escalation, carried out with the direct protection and support of the Israeli army, “which continues its daily policy of killing in the Gaza Strip, requires immediate international intervention to provide international protection for the Palestinian people before the situation spirals out of control.”
“We call upon the international community, particularly the US administration, to take concrete steps to compel the occupying power to abide by international law and UN resolutions, and to cease its ongoing crimes, whether committed by the occupation army or by terrorist colonists.”
Abu Rudeineh held the Israeli government responsible for the deteriorating situation, saying that the “settler attacks are inseparable from what he described as the ongoing war of genocide and forced displacement in Gaza, aimed at undermining the Palestinian national project and imposing a colonial reality in violation of international law and UN Security Council Resolution 2334.”
He also warned against worsening regional situation as a result of the “continuation of wars and chaos resulting from the occupation's policies and its failure to adhere to Arab, international, and legal legitimacy, will remain on the brink of disaster.”
A United Nations inquiry has reported that Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian villages and agricultural land had surged since 2023 by 130 per cent.
Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has risen sharply since the October 7, 2023 attack.
According to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry figures, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,050 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war.
