RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday sent letters to a number of leaders of Arab and friendly countries, the EU, the secretary-general of the League of Arab States and the president of the UN Security Council, calling for urgent international action to stop Israeli military aggression and settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
In his letters, Abbas said the occupied Palestinian territory was witnessing a dangerous escalation due to continued attacks by Israeli forces and armed settler groups against Palestinians, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties, the destruction of property, the burning of homes, religious sites, trees and agricultural land, and attacks on Palestinian villages and communities, under the protection and direct support of the Israeli military and government.
The president said the situation has escalated beyond isolated incidents of violence, describing it as a systematic Israeli policy aimed at creating new realities on the ground through settlement expansion and violence, and undermining and weakening the Palestinian National Authority, thereby deliberately jeopardizing the prospects of a two-state solution and threatening regional security and stability.
