Occupied Jerusalem, June 29 (Petra) -- Jewish settlers carried out multiple raids and attacks on Sunday across several areas of the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the international community to take action to stop settler violence against Palestinians.

The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department stated that 180 settlers, with the support of Israeli occupation forces, stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals.

Settlers seized additional Palestinian land in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.

Palestinian settler resistance activist Osama Makhamreh reported that armed settlers, supported by Israeli occupation forces, moved the fence surrounding the Karmiel settlement and expanded it onto lands on the western side of Umm al-Khair.

Palestinian land owners in the village attempted to confront the settlers, but occupation forces used sound bombs and tear gas against them, assaulted residents and detained several.

Separately, settlers uprooted 280 fruit trees in the town of Azzun in Qalqilya in northern West Bank. The Qalqilya Governorate stated that settlers from the Ma’ale Shomron settlement uprooted 55 olive trees and 25 citrus trees, estimated to be around 15 years old, along with 100 three-year-old olive seedlings.

Settlers began establishing a new settlement outpost in the al-Muntar area near the village of Kardala in the northern Jordan Valley.

The al-Baydar Organisation for Human Rights highlighted that groups of settlers, protected by occupation forces, set up caravans and began fencing agricultural land in preparation for the new outpost.

The organisation emphasised that settlers' move is part of a "systematic escalation of settlement and Judaisation" efforts in the northern Jordan Valley, accompanied by increasing violations against Palestinian residents, land confiscations and restrictions on access to their agricultural and pasture lands.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the international community to stop settler crimes, enforce relevant UN resolutions particularly Resolution 2334 and take necessary deterrent measures to end settler attacks.

The ministry condemned the Israeli settler violations as a coordinated effort between settlers and Israeli occupation forces, noting that recent mass settler attacks target Palestinian towns and villages.

The attacks, it notes, include property destruction, road blockades and closure of entrances with checkpoints and iron gates, with over 1,200 closures reported.

It called for urgent international action to dismantle settler organisations, lift their protection, and impose sanctions on the settlement system to prevent further violations and ensure accountability.

//Petra// AK

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