West Bank,(The Palestine Information Centre)According to an Israeli military official, Israel has given the go-ahead to extremist Jewish settlers to continue their acts of violence against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.
“What we have seen in recent weeks are dozens of terrorist operations [by settlers] against Palestinian villages, without resulting in arrests,” Reserve Colonel Kobi Merom said.
He added that these attacks are “greenlit” and supported by hawkish ministers, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“Smotrich allows the establishment of illegal outposts. Amid the state of collapse that we are spiraling down toward … I am not surprised by the armed incident that took place in [in the village of] Burqa,” Merom noted.
He was making a reference to the killing of a 19-year-old Palestinian, Qosai Jammal Mi’tan, who was shot dead by extremist settlers east of Ramallah on August 4.
Earlier that same day, Israeli soldiers shot dead another young Palestinian, 18-year-old Mahmoud Abu Sa’an. He was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers at point-blank range as they stormed the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that local witnesses said an Israeli soldier got out of one of the military vehicles and shot Abu Sa’an in the head while he was lying on the ground.
“If the prime minister … does not stop this matter and put his foot down at the cabinet table, we are heading toward complete chaos on the ground,” the Israeli colonel warned.
