Foreign Ministry condemns killing of Palestinian man at hands of Israeli colonist near Nablus

RAMALLAH: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the killing of a 43-year-old Palestinian man in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus by live bullets fired by Israeli colonists. The Ministry said in a statement that the killing of Fakher Jaber is an act of incitement by extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, who brags about distributing weapons to the colonists and protecting them. It said, in a statement, that this crime is an official Israeli disregard for the lives of Palestinian people and the sanctions imposed by a number of countries on Israeli colonists. The Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the full responsibility for this "heinous crime." The Ministry called for the urgent need for placing armed colonialist organizations on countries' terrorist lists and exerting real international and American pressure on the Israeli government to force it to stop colonization. It also called for the need to stop fun ding the colonists, especially since they continue to commit more violations and war crimes against the Palestinian people and their properties. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA