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Calls for Escalation in Response to Incursions in Ramallah

Israeli soldiers walk during clashes with Palestinians in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Palestinian factions have called to consider next Friday “a field escalation in areas bordering the occupation and its settlers.”

They said their call comes in response to the incursions carried out by the Israeli army in a number of West Bank cities under the pretext of searching for the perpetrators of operations against occupation soldiers and settlers.

A statement issued by the National and Islamic Forces in Ramallah and al-Bireh called for “the widest level of participation” in the peaceful marches held weekly in al-Risan, Mugheer, Bilin, Nilin and all points of clashes with the occupation.

The statement said these marches will take place to express the factions’ "rejection to the Israeli violations and practices against the people, and incursions into Palestinian cities that fall under PA control.”

The forces stressed the need to “respond to successive incursions, especially in Ramallah," calling on the public sector and private sector employees to "resort to the streets during the daytime incursion, hold sit-ins near ministries, institutions and companies and block the streets collectively.”

They also suggested destroying surveillance cameras.

Israeli soldiers raided on Saturday night many areas of Ramallah, stormed many stores and confiscated surveillance recordings and equipment.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that the Israeli occupation authorities are destroying elements of the Palestinian state through escalation campaigns against Palestinian citizens as an integral part of “Deal of the Century.”

In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry pointed out that Israeli forces continue their systematic confiscation of Palestinian towns, villages and camps.

It added that they are spreading their terror and violence against unarmed Palestinian civilians through the heavy firing of live and metal bullets and sound bombs, as was the case recently in several neighborhoods of West Bank cities, in order to threaten and weaken Palestinian official and civil institutions.

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