The Palestinian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced repeated statements by senior Israeli officials endorsing the killing of Palestinians without valid justifications. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the ministry specifically highlighted the "inflammatory and racist" remarks made by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The ministry accused Ben-Gvir of supporting the shooting of any Palestinian, even when soldiers' lives are not in danger. They criticized his attempts to label all Palestinians as terrorists, endorsing extrajudicial executions and the massacres carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Expressing alarm over the situation in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the West Bank, the ministry described the Israeli military raids as a "brutal repetition of total destruction and attacks on civilians, including children, women, ambulances, medical teams, and medical centers." They drew parallels with the Israeli aggression against Gaza, citing new massacres, destruction of residential neighborhoods, torture of civilians, displacement, and increased collective punishments.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after the infiltration of the Palestinian movement Hamas fighters into Israel on October 7 last year, a move Hamas justified as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel responded with a complete blockade of Gaza and retaliatory strikes on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, with ongoing clashes in the West Bank.
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