Palestinian foreign ministry condemns settler attacks

The Palestinian foreign ministry has said “settler militias and their terrorist elements”  are increasingly attacking Palestinian citizens and their properties.

In a statement it condemned the surging “aggression of the occupation and its settlers” in the occupied West Bank and called on the international community to intervene.

“The Foreign Ministry views with great concern the colonial projects that fuel this ongoing aggression, and holds the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for its repercussions on the efforts made to establish calm, cease fire, and end the cycle of wars,” it said.

We reported earlier today that settler groups had burned a mosque in a village north of Jericho to the ground.