The Palestinian Authority has denounced repeated attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds against Palestinians and called on the United Nations Security Council to break its silence in the face of such attacks.
In a statement, the ministry called on the UN Security Council to assume its political, legal and moral responsibilities and put pressure on the Zionist regime to stop such attacks against Palestinians, WAFA news agency reported Sunday.
In its statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry took both the international community and the United Nations to task for their passivity in the face of atrocities committed by the Tel Aviv occupation regime.
Such attacks, the Palestinian ministry said, are taking place in the context of the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against Palestinians, which is supported by the occupation regime and its various organizations to accelerate the annexation of Palestinian territories and expel Palestinians and replace the residents with Israeli settlers.
The statement comes days after the death of a Palestinian who was severely beaten by a group of settlers in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The man, identified as 37-year-old Abdel-Fattah Obeyyat, was found dead Wednesday evening in the settlement of Har Gilo, two kilometers west of Bethlehem.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements established since the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds in 1967. All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.
According to human rights groups, acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property occur daily throughout the West Bank.
In another incident last week, an Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian woman and her child as they crossed the main road in Huwara, south of Nablus.
In early December, two Palestinian workers were killed after being hit by a bus near an Israeli military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city of Bethlehem, about 10 kilometers south of al-Quds (Jerusalem).
by Basit Abbasi