The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's provocative statements regarding the so-called march of flags and his boasting that it will take place according to its traditional path and its incursion into the neighborhoods and regions of occupied East Jerusalem.

In a statement today, Tuesday, the ministry strongly condemned his inflammatory statements and calls, and the license he gives to assassinate Palestinians in bloody terms (his blood is wasted).

The ministry considered that the statements and expressions of the Israeli prime minister are similar to the approach of the gangs that deal with the Palestinian land as a field for training and shooting, and with the Palestinian citizens as permissible and easy targets for killing, in public and frank admissions before the international community of the involvement of Netanyahu and the political level of the occupying state in all crimes committed against the sons of Israel. Our people by giving instructions and facilitating the killing of Palestinians and providing political and legal protection for the perpetrators of crimes.

She said, "The Israeli government deliberately escalates the situation in the conflict arena in a systematic manner and closes a page of crimes to open another page in an open war against our people and their just and legitimate national rights, in a process of continuous ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian presence, especially in occupied East Jerusalem."

The ministry expressed its strong condemnation of the silence of the international community and countries that claim to be keen on the principle of the two-state solution and human rights towards the boasting of more than one Israeli official about the policy of assassinations, extrajudicial killings and the provocative media march.

She said, "The Israeli government is taking advantage of this silence to persist in attacking the rights of our people and committing more crimes, miserable international double standards and a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law."