News - Middle East: The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has censured the latest escalation of violence by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinian civilians and their holy sites.

In a press statement cited by the official WAFA news agency on Sunday, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the recent attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including their latest against the defenseless Palestinian civilians in the cities of Nablus and Ramallah.
The statement held the extremist cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “fully and directly responsible” for the rising violence and its “dangerous repercussions” on the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The low level and weak international reaction and positions toward settlers’ crimes and attacks and failure to implement the United Nations resolutions related to the Palestinian issue perpetuate the occupation, deepen the apartheid regime, and encourage extremist settler terrorist organizations to commit more crimes against the Palestinian people,” the ministry said.
The statement stressed that the protection provided by certain major countries to the occupation regime secures its persistent impunity deepens the injustice and oppression inflicted upon the Palestinian people and the appropriation of more land for the benefit of settlement expansion.
It also said the pro-Israel protection undermines any chance for the establishment of a Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced in a statement on Tuesday that Israeli forces had arrested more than 5,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year.