Palestine calls for the inclusion of the "Atarot Kohanim" settlement on terrorism lists.

On Monday, Palestine called on the countries of the world to include the organization "Ateret Cohanim" and other Israeli settlement organizations in national terrorism lists, due to their involvement in crimes of displacement and the implementation of plans aimed at Judaizing East Jerusalem.

This came in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, commenting on the evacuation of Palestinian properties in Jerusalem for the benefit of Israeli settlers.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry stated that "Ateret Cohanim is one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations and Zionist settlement associations operating in occupied Jerusalem."

It called for "the inclusion of Ateret Cohanim and all settlement associations involved in crimes of displacement and settlement in their national terrorism lists, and for sanctions to be imposed on their members and financiers, in accordance with international law and relevant United Nations resolutions."

The ministry clarified that it "continues to monitor and follow the activities of the organization and its financiers inside and outside the occupied Palestinian territories, and is working to place it on terrorism lists, due to the real danger it represents to the rights of Palestinian Jerusalemites in their city."

The settlement organization was established in 1978 to promote and strengthen Jewish settlement in Jerusalem, specifically in the Old City and its surroundings.

The Foreign Ministry added that the organization "has been leading plans to Judaize Palestinian neighborhoods for decades, especially in the town of Silwan and the Old City, through the theft of Palestinian properties and assets by fraudulent means using false pretexts, and under the protection of the racist and biased Israeli judiciary."

The ministry condemned "the Israeli occupation government's decision to evacuate the property of the Shweiki and Awad families in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan (on Sunday) for the benefit of the terrorist organization known as Ateret Cohanim."

On Sunday, the Jerusalem governor stated that the Israeli authorities "forcibly evacuated" a property belonging to the Shweiki and Awad families after a large-scale raid and siege of the "Batn al-Hawa" neighborhood, explaining that this comes "as part of a plan for forced displacement targeting Jerusalemite families for the benefit of settlement associations."

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry held "the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the repercussions of this decision."

It affirmed that "settlement and forced displacement constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."

The Foreign Ministry mentioned that it has directed Palestinian ambassadors and its diplomatic missions around the world to "expose this crime, mobilize international positions rejecting it, and call on countries to assume their legal and moral responsibilities in protecting Palestinian families from the forced displacement policies pursued by the occupation authorities in the city of Jerusalem."

The ministry emphasized that "what the illegal occupying authority is doing in East Jerusalem, through its agents from Zionist and settlement associations and its racist courts, constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute."

It clarified that this also represents "an extension of the policy of ethnic cleansing manifested in the crime of forced displacement aimed at emptying the holy city of its original inhabitants and replacing them with colonial settlers."

In conjunction with the Israeli genocide war on the Gaza Strip over the past two years, the West Bank, including Jerusalem, is witnessing a comprehensive Israeli escalation that has resulted in the deaths of at least 1,069 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,000 others, and the arrest of more than 20,000 people, including 1,600 children.