RAMALLAH, November 30, 2014 (WAFA) – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a press statement Sunday, strongly condemned the Jewish settlers's late Saturday night attack on a Jewish-Arab school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa as well as on a Palestinian house near Ramallah.

Settlers, late Saturday night, set fire to a Jewish-Arab school located in Beit Safafa as well sprayed racist anti-Arab  graffiti on its walls such as , 'Kahane was right', and 'death to Arabs.'

The Foreign Ministry also condemned an attack by Jewish extremists from the illegal settlement of Pesagot, adjacent to Ramallah, on a Palestinian house in the nearby city last night; settlers pelted glass bottles at the house and smashed some of the windows.

Recurrent provocative visits by Jewish fanatics to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem were also condemned by the ministry.

Meanwhile, the statement held the “right-wing” government of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for “encouraging and financing settlers and Jewish gangs' crimes,” in what the ministry said was a blatant disregard to wide international criticism and condemnation of such acts.

“The ministry is surprised by the silence of the international community against these crimes,” the statement stressed, adding, “We call upon [the international community] to stop the policy of double standards, as well as called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s permanent members to uphold their responsibility in this regard.

The ministry further urged the UNSC to support the Arab peace initiative aimed at putting an end to the Israeli occupation and settlement construction and expansion based on the two-state solution.

M.N./T.R.