We strongly condemn the murder of a family of settlers in the settlement of Itamar, close to Nablus.
No act of resistance can justify the killing of children. Not only because it is illegal, but because it is not human.
This action can only result in more violence and will certainly not bring the freedom to which the Palestian people have a right.
Israel has responded to this criminal act, sealing off the city of Nablus, once again using a reprisal and the collective punishment of an entire population - a population that already lives under a brutal military occupation that impedes freedom of movement, confiscates land, demolishes homes, uproots trees, holds the population of Gaza under siege, represses the non-violent popular resistance and supports the settlers who attack Palestinian civilians including children, like those of At Tuwani, on a daily basis.
The Israeli authorities are trying to place the responsiblity for the action on the Palestinian Authority, but the responsiblity of this criminal act belongs to those people who committed it.
This is the poisined fruit of the Israeli policy of colonisation and of the complicity of the international community which has failed to prevent Israel from continually violating international law and human rights.
We declare our condolences for the death of the Israeli children, our solidarity with the Palestinians affected by the Israeli reprisals, and our commitment to continue in the non-violent struggle together with the Popular Committees who have also condemned the attack on Itamar and restated their choice of non-violent resistance to the wall and the Israeli military occupation - a struggle that they are carrying forward together with Israelis who refuse the colonial policy of their government and with internationals who show their own governments the road of affermation of rights and of international law.
In the popular committes, we commit ourselves to non-violence and civil disobedience in our struggle to put an end to the Israeli occupation. Even though the crime was committed on colonised land, we see the killing of children as a disgraceful crime, whatever their nationality, sex, colour, race or religion.
