For several days now, residents of a number of Palestinian towns have been facing real terror as dozens of armed settlers have attacked their homes, committing acts of violence and arson under the protection of the occupation’s security forces. The towns of Turmusaya and Urif have witnessed assaults, burning, and destruction, resulting in the martyrdom of one citizen, the burning of over 30 homes, and the destruction of 175 vehicles.
Despite all international condemnations of these criminal acts, the occupation government has announced its intention to establish 1,000 new settlement units in the West Bank, in blatant disregard for its international obligations that explicitly prohibit continued settlement activity, as stipulated in UN Security Council Resolution 446 of 1979 and Resolution 2334 of 2016.
All events in recent years have proven that the occupation government’s permissiveness toward attacks, killings, and destruction carried out by settlers is part of a systematic policy in which the army, settlers, and judiciary all play a role. This is evidenced by the abandonment of more than 90% of investigations into assaults on Palestinians by settlers.
The Arab Trade Union Confederation strongly condemns these criminal attacks and calls on the international community to convert its opposition to settlement activity and the accompanying assaults into effective punitive measures that can protect Palestinian town residents and put a stop to settlement expansion.
The Confederation also calls on all trade union organizations and peace movements around the world to provide all forms of support to the Palestinian people in their just struggle to regain their rights under international legitimacy and to establish their independent state with full sovereignty.
Executive Secretary
Hind Benammar
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