Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to form an international committee to monitor and investigate what he referred to as “crimes by Israeli settlers.” The WAFA news agency reported that, during a meeting with UN Special Coordinator to the Middle East Robert Serry in Ramallah, Abbas gave Serry an urgent letter to deliver to Ban. “15-year-old Mohammed Abu Khder was burnt alive, 16 Palestinians, including children and women were killed during the past two weeks, aside from the ongoing kidnapping attempts and assaults against children,” Abbas charged, according to the news agency. “We all saw through the media the face of Tariq Abu Khder distorted with injuries by criminal settlers’ groups that must be considered illegal and illegitimate organizations,” he continued. “I have requested an international protection for the Palestinian people, giving the Israeli authorities refusal to prosecute these settler’s groups, stressing the rise in settlers’ attacks against Palestinians, which have increased by 41% since the first half of 2014,” Abbas said, according to WAFA. He said that these so-called “settler groups” must be treated and deemed as terrorist groups if the Israeli government actually wants peace. “We are preparing for a set of steps to deter the Israeli aggression and curb settlers’ crimes and the ongoing attacks against our people in the besieged Gaza strip,” stressed Abbas. “There are actions that we must take and we will take in the very near future as it is our duty to provide protection to our people,” he added. “We say to those who fear courts that you must refrain from committing crimes; if you do not want to be prosecuted, you should not commit crimes that could drag you to all types of courts,” he threatened.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:33:20 +0000
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