RAMALALH, Monday, December 16, 2019 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry today called on world governments to place Jewish settlers involved in attacking and terrorizing the Palestinian civilian population in the occupied territories on their terrorist lists and ban them entry into their countries.

It said in a statement that settlers’ attacks against Palestinian civilians and property in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have multiplied in recent years, describing the groups that carry them and identified as Price Tag and Youth of the Hills as “organized Jewish terrorism.”

It said the attacks include cutting and torching trees, seizure of land by force, slashing car tires, violent attacks of homes with the intent to hurt their occupants, vandalism of structures and equipment, destroying water networks and roads, hurling stones at cars driving on West Bank roads near the settlements, shooting at people, particularly at checkpoints under feeble excuses, and many other attacks.

Israeli reports documented 256 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied territories since the start of this year while many other attacks remain undocumented, explained the statement.

“The Ministry condemns in the strongest terms Jewish terrorism in all its forms and holds the Israeli government and its various arms fully and directly responsible for this dangerous escalation in the attacks by settler organizations and their armed terrorist militias, especially since the occupation forces support, train and protect them as they carry out violent attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property, and even attack and repress the Palestinians to prevent them from defending themselves and confronting settler attacks,” it said, adding, “but not only that, the occupier’s military and judicial agencies provide impunity for the settlers involved in committing these crimes. Rarely are settler terrorists that are well known to the occupation army get arrested, especially in Yitzhar settlement outpost, and if they are arrested, they will soon be released under various pretexts, or face bogus trials, which also end with their release and acquittal in order to continue their sabotage operations.”

M.K.