Israeli Knesset’s Approval of a New Law to Deduct Palestinian Clearance Revenues Is a Colonial Measure of Financial Piracy and Organized Robbery Targeting Palestinian Rights

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemns the approval by the Israeli Knesset, in its second and third readings, of a new law expanding the organized robbery of Palestinian clearance revenues.

The Ministry rejects this measure in its entirety and considers it a colonial action that falls within a systematic policy of financial piracy and the continued robbery of Palestinian funds. It constitutes a blatant violation of signed agreements and international law, and a dangerous escalation in Israel’s ongoing war against the Palestinian people, their national rights, and their legitimate institutions.

The Ministry stresses that the continued withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues and the unlawful deductions imposed on them undermine prospects for stability and threaten the economic, financial, and humanitarian conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. These measures are part of Israel’s ongoing efforts to weaken the resilience of the Palestinian people, target their national institutions, and undermine their existence and role.

The Ministry calls on international community, the United Nations, international justice institutions, and all states to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and take effective action to stop these violations. It urges immediate measures to compel Israel, the occupying Power, to release all withheld Palestinian funds, end its policy of financial piracy and unlawful deductions, and hold Israeli officials, including members of the Knesset, accountable for measures that amount to collective punishment and the systematic robbery of the Palestinian people’s financial rights and resources.