Palestine has called on the international community to impose sanctions and other punitive measures against the Zionist regime for building new settlements on the occupied territories, saying that written declarations on this matter should not be enough for the countries of the world. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the Palestinian nation pays a heavy price every day due to settler violence

the wave of crimes committed by Israeli troops against defenseless civilians, their land, property and homes. The ministry added that the occupying regime in Tel Aviv is using all its capabilities to prevent the presence of Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank, which constitutes about 61% of the territory and is under full Israeli military control, in order to build settlements as part of its creeping annexation of the occupied territories, dividing the West Bank and killing any chance for the creation of an independent Palestinian state with eastern al-Quds as its capital.