The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in a statement issued this evening the killing of a Palestinian youth earlier today at the hands of armed and terrorist-organized settler militias in the town of Ad-Dhahiriya to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.

The ministry further denounced the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinian residents, their land, properties, and crops today in an area located between the villages of al-Mughayyir and Turmus Ayya to the east of Ramallah, which resulted in the injury of several farmers and burning of five vehicles and agricultural crops.

The attack was carried out under the protection and support of the Israeli soldiers, who did nothing to stop the settlers but rather joined in on the attack.

The ministry also condemned the closure imposed by the occupation forces on the entrances of al-Mughayyir village for the 14th consecutive day.

It held the Israeli government, headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fully and directly responsible for the crimes of settlers and the provocative attacks carried out by armed and organized groups who receive training and arms from the occupation forces that practice the heinous crimes against the Palestinian people, their land, properties, and holy sites.

The ministry said it was deeply puzzled by the international community’s silence on these crimes and the disregard shown by countries toward the life of the Palestinian citizen, stating that the world must realize that our people are nearly losing their trust in the ability of the United Nations and its organizations to provide protection to them against the brutality of the occupation and armed settler militias, which the ministry stressed are considered a battalion in the Israeli army.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA