On Sunday, a network of Palestinian NGOs called on the United Nations to provide urgent international protection for Palestinian civilians from the attacks of Israeli settlers, which are being carried out under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.
In a statement, the network - which includes 145 organizations - called for immediate action to provide international protection for the Palestinian people under occupation in light of the escalation of settler attacks, especially in the northern West Bank.
She stressed that the United Nations is required to take urgent measures to provide international protection, and to work with all available means to compel the occupying power to stop its practices that amount to war crimes against the Palestinian people.
The network described these attacks as a racial breakdown of the settlers within an open and systematic war, and they are not individual or separate operations from a continuous context of attacks and ethnic cleansing, which also includes the occupied city of Jerusalem and its surroundings, its holy sites and the rest of the Palestinian territories.
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Violent confrontations continue between young men and the occupation forces in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.# Save_Barqa pic.twitter.com/0aYOAakndA
— Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 25, 2021
The network called for the formation of a broad international front to end the occupation, and to expand campaigns of international solidarity with the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights, as a victory for the values of humanity, justice and rights, and to work on trying and holding the occupying power accountable, according to the statement.
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network was established in September 1993, after the signing of the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel. It is an independent civil democratic grouping that aims to empower Palestinian society in the context of promoting democratic principles, social justice, sustainable development and respect for human rights, according to the network's website.
The mosques of Sebastia town northwest of Nablus call for confronting the settlers at the entrance to the town.
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— Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 25, 2021
continuous attacks
For days, settlers have been attacking Palestinian homes in the northern occupied West Bank, and organizing marches to return to a settlement located on the lands of the towns of "Burqa" and "Siliyat al-Dhahr" - south of Nablus - that have been vacated since 2005.
In the same context, Israeli settlers closed - on Sunday evening - the settlement of "Ma'ale Livona", which is built on the lands of the town of Singel, north of Ramallah, where they closed the entrance to the town, under the protection of the Israeli army and police, according to the Anadolu Agency.
The agency added that the settlers carried the Israeli flag and performed provocative dances in front of the people of Singel town.
She pointed out that a number of the town's youth gathered near the area to confront the settlers in the event of attacks on the adjacent houses, which prompted the army to expel the settlers.
#Burqa_resisting and defending 27,027 square kilometers, its identity, its condition, its dignity, and everything! #SaveBurqa
— JANO ♥️ (@Jana4226) December 26, 2021
Activists support
Meanwhile, Palestinian activists and bloggers continue to support and support them through the cyberspace of the town of Burqa, after a settler attack on it under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, using the hashtags #SaveBurqa and #BurqaResist.
A number of Arab countries have issued the hashtag "#SaveCurve" after the settlers' continuous attacks on the people of the northern governorates, calling for immediate intervention to prevent the continuation of the attacks.
The bloggers called on the people of Palestine to stand by the people of Cyrenaica to confront the settlers and prevent them from achieving their goals.