RAMALLAH, August 6, 2025 (WAFA) – The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry condemned on Wednesday attacks by Israeli colonists on Russian and Dutch diplomatic vehicles in the occupied West Bank.

The Ministry considered the separate attacks by Israeli colonists on the vehicles belonging to Russia’s Representative Office and the Netherlands’ Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and bearing diplomatic registration plates as a gross violation of international laws and norms, particularly the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

It added that the attacks were indicative not only of Israeli colonist militias’ total disregard to all laws given the total support and protection provided by the occupation authorities to colonists, but also of the daily threats posed and attacks committed by colonist militias against defenseless Palestinian civilians across the occupied West Bank.

It reiterated the call for the international community to take a firmer position, impose deterrent sanctions on Israeli colonists and put genuine pressure on Israel, the occupying state, to hold Israeli colonists accountable for their attacks, dismantle colonist militias, and stop their funding.

K.F.