Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
A coalition of aid agencies on Friday implored the international community to take concrete, punitive action against the Israel i government and settlers after the number of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank since October 7 surpassed 1,000.
said. 'Reports indicate that some illegal outpost farms operated by sanctioned settlers—many of whom have been reported to be at the center of multiple violent incidents—have received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of material support from the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Settlements, the Settlement Administration in the Ministry of Defense, and through local and regional settlement councils.
urged the international community to 'adopt new restrictive measures which go beyond individual settlers to target identified organizations and state entities who promote violence and/or take part in attacks on Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructure.
's statement came days after the Israeli government announced the seizure of nearly five square miles of land in the West Bank—Israel's largest land grab in the occupied Palestinian territory in more than three decades. Sally Abi Khalil, Middle East and North Africa director for Oxfam International—an
member—said Friday that settler attacks in the West Bank have reached a 'disturbing milestone.' 'In a context where outpost legalization is being fast-tracked, and Israel is stealing more and more land,' said Khalil, 'foreign governments must act now to stop this illegal appropriation by taking meaningful measures to hold the Israeli government and perpetrators of these attacks to account.
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