Palestine: Int’l Silence Encourages More Zionist Crimes

Date: 13 April 2021 - 22:19

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Authority has condemned the silence of the international community towards the Zionist regime’s crimes in the occupied territories, saying the inaction encourages the regime to continue crimes against Palestinians.
"Aggression by Israeli settlers and Israel’s occupation army against the Palestinian people and their lands continues overtly before the eyes of the international community,” said the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.
The illegal settlers carry out their violations protected by the regime’s army, the ministry added.
Zionist troops stand and watch as the settlers attack Palestinians and their property, stepping in only when the Palestinians react in self-defense and the settlers come under retaliatory attack.
Recently the home of Sameer Al-Saleebi and his family in Beit Amer came under attack by settlers. The Palestinian family was obliged to leave their farm after their buildings and greenhouses were damaged.
Such attacks, the ministry confirmed, are being carried out on a daily basis across the occupied West Bank and al-Quds.
All settlements are illegal under international law.
In a latest development, the so-called Jewish National Fund has approved a controversial plan that will allow it to buy Palestinian lands in the West Bank for the expansion of illegal settlements, one step away from making official a practice that has been carried out under the table for decades.
The group approved the plan on Sunday by one vote - six in favor and five against - and still needs to pass a final approval from its board of directors on 22 April, Haaretz reported.
The new plan will allow the fund to buy lands in the Palestinian district of Jenin and Nablus, in the northern West Bank, an area surrounded by Zionist settlements.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Emboldened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s all-out support, the regime has stepped up its settlement construction activities in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounced settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds "a flagrant violation under international law.”