Iran: Israeli Regime’s Attack on Palestinians Tantamount to State-Run Terrorism
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kana'ani deplored the Israeli regime's criminal acts in Nablus and Jenin during recent weeks, and said what Tel Aviv has done is a blatant instance of structural and state-run terrorism.
Kana’ani categorically condemned brutal attacks by the Israeli regime’s settlers on the defenseless Palestinians in Hawara town and the suburbs of Nablus in the West Bank and setting fire on Palestinians’ houses and assets.
He described the criminal acts by the Tel Aviv regime the continuation of cold blood massacre of Palestinians in Nablus and Jenin during recent weeks and as a blatant example of structural and state-run terrorism, calling on the international community to react in effective and deterrent ways to halt the terrorism by the Apartheid regime.
“The extremist and criminal behavior of the fake Zionist regime and their incompliance with any agreement and commitment showed that the legitimate resistance in the face of the Zionist occupiers and their aggressive acts is the only option to be chosen by the Palestinian people and the resistance groups,” the spokesman noted.
The Israeli military sent hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank on Monday, a day after a Palestinian man shot and killed Israeli brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv from the illegal settlement of Har Bracha in a shooting ambush in the Palestinian town of Hawara in the northern West Bank. The gunman fled the scene.
Following the shooting, groups of settlers rampaged through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers have carried out at least 300 attacks, including shootings and arson, in the rampage.
A 37-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Samih al-Aqtash, was shot in the stomach on Sunday night by settlers protected by the Israeli army in the village of Zaatara south of Nablus. He died of his injuries.
At least 390 Palestinians were injured in the settler rampage across the villages of Huwara, Zaatara, Burin and Asira al-Qibliya, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.
It added that the majority were wounded from tear gas fired by the Israeli army as well as smoke inhalation from widespread fires set by extremist settlers.
Israeli settlers and troops have escalated attacks on Palestinians since late December 2022, when Benjamin Netanyahu staged a comeback as the regime’s prime minister at the head of a cabinet of far-right and extremist parties.
