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Jordan Condemns Israeli Settler Attacks, Says Israel Fully Responsible in West Bank
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Jordan condemns escalating Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank as extremist policies. Attacks burned homes, agricultural land, vehicles, uprooted trees, and assaulted Palestinians.
West Bank violence escalates
Jordan condemned escalating attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, calling the violence an extension of the Israeli government’s extremist policies and holding Israel fully responsible. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said recent attacks on Palestinian villages included the burning of homes, agricultural land and vehicles, as well as the uprooting of numerous trees, and described the incidents as an escalation of “settler terrorism.” The ministry said eight Palestinians were injured Saturday morning in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, and it said Israeli forces also detained at least 70 Palestinians during raids across West Bank cities, villages and towns, particularly in the town of Tell near Nablus.
Jordan said Israeli troops and settlers killed four Palestinians in Nablus on Friday, and it added that arrests, raids and attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have increased since Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip in October 2023. In that period, Türkiye Today said escalating violence by the Israeli military in cooperation with settlers has killed 1,182 Palestinians, injured about 13,000, led to the detention of nearly 24,000 and forcibly displaced 33,000 people.
Condemnations and accountability
Sharjah24 said Kuwait condemned rising extremist settler violence in the West Bank, with its Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying the assaults reflect the Israeli occupation’s tolerance of settler abuses carried out under the protection of its forces. Kuwait’s ministry called on the international community to take immediate action to stop the attacks and hold those responsible accountable, reaffirming Kuwait’s support for the Palestinian people’s right to establish an independent state along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. In a separate statement, Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said the violence was an extension of the Israeli government’s extremist policies and illegal practices in the occupied West Bank, and it said Israel, as the occupying power, was responsible for continuing attacks and crimes against the Palestinian people.
WAFA reported that Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, through its official spokesperson Ambassador Fouad Majali, affirmed the Kingdom’s absolute rejection of such attacks and described them as an extension of the extremist policies of the Israeli government and its illegal actions in the occupied West Bank. WAFA said Majali held Israel, the occupying power, responsible for the attacks and called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and to compel Israel to stop settler attacks.
What is at stake
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said its condemnation of settler terrorism was tied to the broader political stakes of peace efforts, arguing that the actions fueled extremism and violence while undermining opportunities to achieve peace based on a two-state solution. The ministry said Israel must be compelled to stop settler attacks, hold those responsible accountable and ensure they do not escape punishment, and it said a just and comprehensive regional peace depended on fulfilling the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to establish an independent and sovereign state along the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. WAFA similarly framed Majali’s call for action around the same political end-state, saying he called for fulfilling the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to establish their independent and sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Sharjah24 also linked Kuwait’s position to the same 1967-border framework, reaffirming Kuwait’s support for the Palestinian people’s right to establish an independent state along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Across the accounts, the immediate violence described—burning of homes, agricultural land and vehicles, uprooting of numerous trees, and assaults on Palestinians—was presented as the pressure point that governments said must be stopped to protect the path to that political outcome.