News - Middle East: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the international community to take on its responsibilities, and stop the Israeli regime’s criminal acts as well as continued acts of vandalism and violence by settlers, known as price tag attacks, across the occupied territories.

“These crimes are an integral part of the bloody and systematic Israeli escalation against our people with the aim of breaking their resilience and adherence to their just and legitimate national rights and land,” the ministry said in a statement released on Monday.

The statement added that the Tel Aviv regime is making attempts “to force our people to surrender, coexist with occupation and [illegal] settlements, and accept them as a fait accompli that is difficult to change.”

It described the organized attacks by armed settlers on Palestinian civilians and their land and property as tantamount to the actions of Israeli military forces, stressing that they are Israel's official denial of the just and legitimate rights of Palestinians which have been officially endorsed by the United Nations.

The Palestinian foreign ministry then held the Israeli regime responsible for the escalating tensions across the occupied territories, stating that the current situation threatens an explosion that would plunge the entire Middle East region into a spiral of violence.