Jordan parliament slams Israel for ‘state terrorism’

Jordan has slammed the Israeli regime for committing “state terrorism” against the Palestinians, following the fatal shooting of seven Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip by Israeli forces.

"The Israeli enemy, sapping the rights of the Palestinians on their own lands... and over their holy places, is exercising state terrorism before the eyes of the whole world," the Jordanian parliament said in a statement released on Saturday.

The Jordanian lawmakers also denounced the crimes that Israeli forces have committed in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

On Friday, six Palestinians were killed and 145 others were injured after Israeli forces opened fire on a group of Palestinian protesters in eastern Gaza.

Emergency medical services in Gaza said on Saturday that two Palestinian teenagers were killed and ten other people injured by Israeli fire during clashes in the east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

International community criticized

The Jordanian parliament, meanwhile, said "barbaric and racist" actions of the Israeli military that have violated international and humanitarian laws have caused the casualties on the part of the Palestinians.

They also condemned inaction of the international community in the face of the Tel Aviv regime’s violence, adding that it is not lifting “a finger to halt these racist and detestable policies” of Israel, which are “pushing the region and world towards more violence and instability.”

There has been growing confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, triggered by Tel Aviv’s imposition on August 26 of sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Israeli settlers’ repeated storming of the mosque.

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Friday that 14 Palestinians had been killed and about 1,000 others injured with live and rubber-coated steel bullets since October 1. Two other Palestinian youths succumbed to their injuries on Saturday after being attacked by Israeli forces.

Two more Palestinians killed in West Bank

In their latest act of violence, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager, accusing him of attacking and stabbing two Israelis in East al-Quds.

According to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the 16-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed on Saturday.

In a similar incident later in the day, Israeli forces killed another man in East al-Quds by the Damascus Gate, accusing the man of attacking and stabbing two police officers.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein has voiced concern about the escalation of tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, urging an end to the violence.

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