The Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounced the occupation’s “continuous violations and crimes against Palestinian citizens, their land, property, homes and holy places, the most recent of which was the demolition of a laundry under the pretense of licensing and the demolition of land in occupied Jerusalem.”

A Foreign Ministry statement stated that “the ongoing series of mass arbitrary arrests of Palestinian citizens throughout the occupied West Bank following barbaric incursions into their cities, villages and camps in the late hours of the night and intimidation of safe citizens in their homes, including children, the elderly and women, firing at them with bullets, gas bombs and stun bombs, in an official Israeli expropriation of the entire occupied West Bank under false pretenses and pretexts.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also expressed its condemnation of “the ongoing bulldozing, confiscation and demolition of houses and structures on the lands and homes of Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the most recent of which was the racist demolitions near the central vegetable market in the Old City Hebron in order to expand and deepen the Jewish settlement.” single it out for settlement on the one hand, and in an attempt to force the Palestinian citizens to coexist with the occupation and its schemes and surrender to it as an imposed reality that they have no way to resist or change on the other hand.

She stressed that “the continued violations and crimes of the occupation against the eyes and ears of the world undermine any opportunity to revive the peace process and sabotage any efforts to build confidence between the two sides in preparation for the start of real negotiations to end the conflict.” based on resolutions of international legitimacy and the principle of a two-state solution, and also reflects official Israeli insistence on the annexation of the West Bank.” occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.