Occupied Jerusalem-Sana
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the escalation of Israeli settlers attacks as a direct result of the announcement of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the settlements, renewing its call on the United Nations to provide international protection for the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement today that the escalation of settlers' terrorist acts against the Palestinians, especially after the Pompeo Declaration on the settlements, falls within the framework of an expansionist colonial plan to be implemented under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, especially in areas southwest and southeast of the city of Nablus in the West Bank. A huge separation of the northern and central parts of the West Bank would lead to any chance of establishing an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry pointed out that groups of settlers stormed today the towns and villages of Majdal Bani Fadel, Qabalan, Burqa, Kafr Al-Deek and others in Nablus city, assaulting Palestinian properties and burning a number of vehicles in an attempt to expand the theft of land and the displacement of Palestinians.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated the United States' blatant bias towards the Israeli occupation entity, declaring that the US administration does not consider Israeli settlements to be contrary to international law, ignoring all international resolutions, especially Security Council resolution 2334 of 2016, which calls for an immediate end to all settlement activity. On the occupied Palestinian territory.