PALESTINIAN officials sent a warning to the United States, the European Union and other Western countries on Saturday, saying that the continued occupation of Palestinian land by Israel was no longer tolerable.

Fatah deputy chairman Mahmoud Aloul condemned the increased number of “martyrs and wounded as a result of the intensification of the Israeli occupier and settler attacks on our people, and on the funerals and mourners.”

He said Israel had committed criminal acts, highlighting the escalation of hostilities in occupied East Jerusalem and the siege of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrar neighbourhoods.