GAZA (Dispatches) – The United
Nations Security Council’s failure to issue a statement condemning Zionist settlers’ “terrorist attack” against Palestinians in Huwara, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, “reinforces the law of the jungle and chaos”, Quds Press quoted a top member with the Hamas resistance movement saying.
“The Israeli army itself describes the settler attacks as terrorism,” Basim Naim said, holding the United States “morally and politically responsible for the lives that will be wasted at the hands of these fascists.”
He stressed that the policies pursued by the United States over the past decades have deprived the region of any opportunity for security and stability.
The UN Security Council failed, in its session held on Tuesday evening, to reach a statement condemning settler attacks against Palestinians and their property in the town of Huwara.
Days after the rampage through the Palestinian villages, torching cars and houses, a large group of marauding settlers hurled stones at passing vehicles in the north of the occupied West Bank late on Thursday.
According to Israeli media reports, the settlers resorted to fresh aggression after being stopped by Zionist troops on their way to the illegal Evyatar outpost.
The aggression came after Zionist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, also the leader of the Religious Zionist Party, said on Wednesday that the village of Hawara “needs to be erased.”
A growing number of rights and advocacy groups are calling for the United States to issue an entry ban on Smotrich over his comment.
In separate statements, a number of groups ranging from organizations focused on human rights in the Middle East to rabbinical groups in the U.S. have called for Washington to deny Smotrich a visa over his comments.
One Palestinian was killed and at least 390 injured in the ferocious attacks on Sunday, with Palestinian media reporting stabbings and attacks with metal rods and rocks.
Furthermore on Thursday, Zionist troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.
Ahmad Enaya, the mayor of the West Bank town of Azzoun, said an Israeli military vehicle drove into town late on Thursday and when teens hurled rocks at the car, the troops responded with live fire.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Muhammad Nidal Salim was “killed by bullets in the back fired at him by the occupation [Zionist] soldiers”.
Two others were wounded, including a child who is in critical condition, the ministry added, without giving their ages.
Also on Thursday, the Zionist regime’s forces also fatally shot a Palestinian teenager and wounded two others in the northern part of the Tel Aviv-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the victim as Mohammad Nedal Saleem, 15, who was shot in the back by the troops in the town of Azzun in the northwestern West Bank on Thursday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
The ministry referred to the wounded as two other teenagers, saying one is in critical condition after being targeted in the chest with a live bullet fired by the troops.
The agency cited witnesses as saying “Israeli occupation forces fired at the three Palestinian teenagers while they were at the entrance to the town.”
Meanwhile, a young Palestinian man succumbed to the wounds he suffered during a raid by Zionist troops on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Ariha.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 22-year-old Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan died of his serious injuries on Wednesday night after being shot by Israeli troops during a raid on Aqabat Jabr camp, located southwest of Ariha in the Jordan valley, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
On Wednesday, Zionist troops stormed the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, following a shooting attack on a highway outside Ariha that left one Zionist trooper dead.