Ramallah, June 25 (Pressa Latina) The Palestinian government today blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the increase in attacks by settlers in the occupied territories and for inciting several members of his cabinet to commit these crimes.
These violations confirm “the policies pursued by Netanyahu’s far-right executive branch and are also a direct reflection of campaigns to incite the assassination of Palestinians, particularly by racist extremists,” the State Department denounced in a statement.
The Israeli ruling coalition is systematically undermining all regional and international efforts to resume dialogue to resolve the conflict, he said.
The Foreign Ministry also criticized the statements made by far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
In another statement yesterday, the portfolio called outlandish and genocidal remarks by National Security Chief Ben Gvir, who called for the launch of a full-scale military operation in the West Bank to “kill thousands of terrorists.”
Ben Gvir made these statements during a visit to a West Bank colonial outpost.
By being there, the extremist politician provided renewed support and encouraged Israeli settlers to commit more war crimes and confiscate more Palestinian land through settlement expansion, the text said.
The State Department said that “these comments reflect Israel’s deep contempt for Palestinian life and the pervasive culture of impunity for Palestinian life and rights.”
This impunity and criminal trend is fueled and fueled by the international community’s failure to hold this country accountable for its systematic and widespread violations of international law, he stressed.
Ben Gvir has been charged more than 50 times and convicted eight times of rioting, vandalism and incitement to racism. He is known for for years keeping in his living room a photo of Baruch Goldstein murdering 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994. .
The minister was a student of the assassinated ultra-nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was questioned for his radical and extremist ideas and even rejected by other right-wing Israeli politicians.
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