The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reported today, Friday, that the occupation army and settlers set 273 fires targeting citizens' lands and properties after October 7, 2023.

The head of the authority, Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, said that the occupation army and settlers have hidden behind the curtain of the terrible aggression launched by the occupation state against our people, by carrying out many crimes, the most prominent of which are fires, in a clear insistence on restoring and reproducing the behavior of official state terrorism by terrorizing the safe and destroying their property, with the aim of causing...

A large-scale process of forced displacement and confinement of the Palestinian presence to isolated and besieged “cantons.”

Shaaban explained that after October 7, the army and settlers deliberately caused a total of 273 fires in citizens’ properties and fields, the most recent of which was the fire and attack on the village of Jit, east of Qalqilya.

He added that the most prominent of these fires were in the governorates of Nablus with 120 fires, then Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 42 fires, and Jenin with 26 fires, and they varied between 77 fires that affected citizens' lands, fields and crops, while 196 fires targeted citizens' properties, including residential apartments, buildings, vehicles and others.

He added that, in terms of implementation, the raids and attacks of the occupation army caused 56 fires that affected government and private properties, while the joint attacks between the settlers and the army caused 9 fires, while the settlers carried out the largest part of these fires, 208 fires.

Shaaban explained that setting fires is a fixed and escalating mechanism that causes great damage, and that the occupying state is determined to adopt and sponsor it, and that it can only be viewed as a means of terrorism and terrorizing the safe and a fascist attempt to inflict heavy losses on citizens that affect their social and economic pattern, warning against the persistence of the various parties in the occupying state in repeating these fires in Palestinian villages, towns and cities under the cover of war and emergency laws these days.

He said that the numbers that are being dealt with these days as a result of the attacks of the settler militias after October 7, with the martyrdom of 18 citizens by settler bullets, the injury of more than 785 and the displacement of 26 Bedouin communities, show the powers granted to terrorist groups that receive official support in the form of funding, protection and immunity, and that they can only be viewed as a blatant challenge to international positions and laws that condemn the colonial settlement project and the official institution in the occupying state that sponsors it and feeds on its expansion in the Palestinian land.

Shaaban recalled the tragedies of the burning of the child Mohammed Abu Khudair in 2014 and the burning of the Dawabsheh family in 2015 by settlers, and the ongoing attempts to carry out more crimes, which continue to demonstrate the fascism of the intellectual complexes on which these groups rely.

He stressed that these groups have not abandoned this mentality and have not stopped trying to burn Palestinians alive in front of the entire world, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities in ensuring that the sanctions imposed go beyond the barrier of individuals to the level of groups, and that these sanctions rise to the level of the official and governmental frameworks that sponsor and support the colonial settlement terrorism project in the occupied Palestinian territory.