Palestine Calls on World to Include Firms Tied to Israeli Settlements on ‘Terror Lists’

The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry has called on all countries to put individuals tied to settler terrorist organizations or companies investing in illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories on their terror lists.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates urged states to prosecute such entities or individuals and to prevent them from entering their lands.

In addition, the ongoing human rights abuses by Israel are a reflection of the incitement campaign led by extremist ministers in the Israeli regime, such as Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the ministry added.  

“The Israeli regime is desperately attempting to hide and legitimize the crimes of the occupying forces and seeks to give the impression to the international community that the conflict over the occupied West Bank is between Palestinians and Israelis,” the statement read.

This comes as the Israeli regime has been pressing ahead with its illegal settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories despite international outcry. The policy has seen the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist cabinet.

The anti-settlement organization Peace Now earlier this month said that the far-right cabinet of Netanyahu had advanced a record number of illegal units in settlements in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of the current year.

The Israeli human rights group said in a statement that the Tel Aviv regime had advanced 12,855 settler housing units across the West Bank since January, and the number is the highest figure that it has recorded since it started tracking such activity in 2012.

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