RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 9, 2023 (WAFA) - The release of the settlers who murdered Qusai Maatan in Burqa village, near Ramallah, on Friday confirms to the world the nature of the Israeli occupation and its organized system of terrorism, killing and destruction, today said Chief Sharia Justice and Advisor to the President for Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Habbash.

He said in a press statement that “the occupying state, with its political and security organs, and the so-called judicial system, are all involved in all the crimes of killing, arson and destruction against the Palestinian people and their sanctities,” adding that “this system is based on a terrorist occupation, a government of terror and terrorist courts, and all of them must be treated, according to international conventions and treaties, as war criminals and murderers.”

Habbash called on the international community to show responsibility and defend international justice by punishing this organized criminal system and prosecuting it before the international courts as a system that not only sponsors terrorism but rather practices it openly before the eyes of the whole world.”

He said that “it is not possible or acceptable for these terrorist killers to escape justice and punishment,” stressing that “the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves, their land and their sanctities, and to respond to aggression.”

The Israeli District Court today ordered the release of the two terrorist settlers who killed Maatan despite calls to keep them in detention until further investigation. At the same time, the Israeli army detained a Palestinian from Burqa who was injured by the settlers' bullets and three of his sons claiming they threw rocks at the settlers who attacked them in their homes and lands.

M.K.