Iran blasts illegal settlers’ attack on Palestinian civilians in occupied West Bank

Iran has censured the deadly illegal Zionist settlers’ rampage through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the West Bank, saying the attacks have been carried out following the occupying regime’s brutal massacres across the occupied territories over the past few weeks.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani, in a statement on Tuesday, condemned the brutal assaults by the illegal Zionist settlers on defenseless Palestinians in Huwara town as well as the surrounding areas in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and decried arson attacks on residential buildings and private properties.

Kan’ani stated that the settlers’ criminal acts are in line with the cold-blooded killings of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli occupation army in Nablus and Jenin in recent weeks and represent a clear example of the Tel Aviv regime’s structural and state-sponsored terrorism.

He called on the international community to exhibit a decisive, effective and deterrent response to the terror machine of the Israeli apartheid regime.

“The extremism and criminal behaviors of the bogus Israeli regime, besides its failure to honor commitments and agreements, have once again rightly demonstrated that the legitimate struggle against Zionist occupiers and their aggression is the sole option before the Palestinian nation and resistance groups,” Kan’ani said.

Following the shooting, groups of settlers rampaged through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian officials say the illegal Zionist settlers have carried out at least 300 attacks, including shootings and arson, in the rampage.

A 37-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Samih al-Aqtash, was shot in the stomach on Sunday night by settlers protected by the Israeli army in the village of Zaatara south of Nablus. He died of his injuries.

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