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August 21, 2012

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti Condemns Increasing Settlers Violence

The MP, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian
National Initiative Movement, said that what settlers are doing in
regards to crime and aggression are dangerous and unprecedented
 developments.

Barghouti described the event, saying that settlers threw a petrol
bomb and chemicals on a Palestinian car that led to it catching on
fire and burning the bodies of six civilians. To a large extent, it is
a terrorist act and not the first of its kind, he said, whereby
civilians are exposed to the real war of the settlers in the West
Bank.

He added that the settlers’ crimes, which affected
Bassam Mahmoud Issa Gaazh 48, head of the family, Ayman Mohammed
Mustafa Gaazh 36, with very serious burns, equally affecting his wife,
Jamilah Abdul Hai Gaazh 30, and his three children, Aymaan, 4,
Muhammad 3, and Inamul 2, is a cover-up of the occupying authorities.

He explained that it is the result of a government cover-up of
settlers crimes orchestrated in different forms daily. This is
expecially demonstrated in the latest car attack on civilians near the
settlement of Nahaliial west of Ramallah as well as in the north of
the West Bank.

Barghouti confirmed that settlers are engaged in organised
terrorism acts against palestinian people and property, including
repeated attacks in the form of beatings and abuse in the old town of
Hebron.

He said that the settlers’ crimes, which affect Palestinian
mosques, land, houses and vehicles, are the responsibility of the
Netanyahu government which provides the settlers with protection. The
escalating attacks by settlers is proof that there is no government in
Israel that wants peace, rather, settlers device their own laws and
means of government.

He feels neither secure nor safe in the presence of the
settlers living in the Occupied Territories.

Barghouti said the response to the settler attack lies in
the increase of popular resistance, the strengthening of the
restoration of national unity, and further attempts to impose
sanctions on Israel.