RAMALLAH: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that it views with great concern the crime of forced displacement committed against the Bedouin communities throughout the occupied Palestinian Territory by Israeli colonial gangs, especially in Masafer Yatta and the Jordan Valley.
The Ministry, in a statement, expressed profound concern over colonists’ attacks against Palestinian Bedouin communities, which are carried out with the support and protection of the occupation army and the direct supervision of the extremist Ministers in the Israeli government, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.
The Foreign Ministry said that the number of Bedouin communities forcibly expelled as a result of the attacks and crimes of the colonial militias exceeds 40 communities, the latest of which was the forced expulsion of the last Palestinian Bedouin families in Umm al-Jamal community in the northern Jordan Valley.
The Ministry said such Israeli colonists’ acts rise to the level of ethnic cleansing and come a
s part of the ongoing gradual annexation of the occupied West Bank. Israel wants to empty the area of its Palestinian residents in order to use it for its illegal settlement enterprise, with the aim of undermining any chance for the embodiment of the Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Ministry stressed that all decisions or sanctions issued by the international community or states on colonial activities as well as on colonists accused of committing crimes against the Palestinian people did not deter such crimes.
The Ministry called for dissuasive international sanctions; not only on colonists and their armed militias, but also on ministers and officials in the Israeli government who provide protection, support and funding to the likes of Smotrich and Ben Gvir.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA