Ministry of Foreign Affairs Condemns Massacre in Tal, Calls for Immediate International Action to End Settler Terrorism
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemns in the strongest terms the massacre perpetrated by Israeli settler militias, in partnership with the Israeli occupation forces, against Palestinian civilians in the village of Tal, west of Nablus, on Friday.
The attack resulted in the killing of at least five Palestinians, including brothers, and the injury of several others, some critically, after settlers stormed the village, assaulted residents, and opened live fire. The Ministry also condemns the killing of two Palestinian young men by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, on Thursday, while continuing to withhold their bodies.
This massacre is yet another manifestation of the ongoing Nakba inflicted upon the Palestinian people and exposes the full partnership between the Israeli occupation authorities, their military forces, and settler militias in carrying out systematic crimes against Palestinians. These attacks are an integral part of Israel’s official policy of expanding its colonial settlement enterprise through violence, terror, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.
The Ministry stresses that the escalation of settler terrorism is a direct consequence of the protection, political backing, and complete impunity granted by the Israeli government and occupation forces. Official Israeli incitement continues to fuel and encourage these crimes, creating an environment in which settler violence flourishes without accountability.
The Ministry calls on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and to take immediate, concrete, and effective measures to end Israeli settler terrorism and ensure international protection for the Palestinian people. It urges states to impose sanctions on Israel’s illegal settlement regime and those responsible for it, cut all financial and institutional support for settlement activities, prohibit the import of settlement products, boycott companies and institutions that sustain the settlement enterprise, and activate universal jurisdiction to hold all perpetrators, as well as those who enable and direct these crimes, fully accountable.