The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned today the terrorism practiced by Israeli settlers against Palestinian schools. In a statement, the ministry said this terrorism against Palestinian schools falls within the framework of what has become a behavior of settlers and their organized ‘terrorist gangs’. It affirmed that this terrorism is a result of incitement campaigns and positions of the Israeli extremist right led by Ben Ghaffir and Smotrich, which has provided more protection for the settlers and their terrorist elements. The ministry condemned settler militias’ raid into the Ras Al-Tin school, east of Ramallah, which is threatened with demolition by the Israeli occupation authorities. It condemned the attack on the school, including destroying its windows, in addition to storming the Al-Tahadi school in the Wadi Al-Siq, east of Ramallah, and sabotaging its contents, under the protection and support of the occupation forces. The ministry slammed this attack as a serious escalation of settlers’ attacks against Palestinian educational institutions, especially those located in Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule. It also condemned the continuous incursions into the town of Sebastia and its archaeological area in Nablus by the occupation forces and settlers’ militias and their attacks on Palestinian residents with live gunfire and gas bombs in an attempt to seize the archaeological area. These attacks are part of the occupation state’s attempts to Judaize and annex the West Bank and combat all forms of Palestinian national and humanitarian existence in those areas targeted by settlements. The ministry held the Israeli government fully responsible for these attacks and the targeting of Palestinian educational institutions, calling on the US administration, the international community, and the United Nations organizations, especially “UNESCO”, to assume their responsibilities in providing protection for Palestinian educational institutions.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA