The Palestinian foreign ministry has said that it sent an urgent memorandum to governments worldwide, calling for “immediate” international action to halt escalating attacks by Israeli illegal settlers and forces in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
The memorandum was delivered through embassies and diplomatic missions accredited to Palestine amid what the ministry described as escalating “occupier terrorism” backed by the Israeli government.
The ministry said on Sunday that Palestinian diplomatic missions were placed on “high alert” as it continued contacts with governments, parliaments and international organisations over daily killings, the burning of mosques, homes and property, and road closures between cities and villages across the occupied West Bank.
It said the attacks were not isolated incidents but part of an “official and systematic Israeli policy” that provides illegal Israeli settlers with political and military protection.
The ministry warned that continued impunity gives Israeli forces and occupiers a “green light” to intensify attacks, expand settlements, forcibly displace Palestinians and pursue plans for annexation and ethnic cleansing.
Since October 2023, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have killed at least 1,182 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, wounded thousands and detained around 24,000, according to official Palestinian figures.
The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said in a report on July 6 that illegal Israeli settlers carried out 3,488 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the first half of this year, including assaults on villages, arson attacks on homes, shootings, land seizures and the establishment of settlement outposts, leaving 17 Palestinians dead.
Israeli ceasefire violations involving air strikes and gunfire have killed 1,191 Palestinians and wounded 3,853 others, the Gaza health ministry said.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 173,000 others, while widespread destruction has affected 90 percent of the enclave’s civilian infrastructure.
