Ramallah, October 14 (RHC)-- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat says new petitions will be sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Israeli regime for crimes against Palestinians.

The senior Palestinian official on Tuesday slammed Israel for extrajudicial killing of Palestinians, as well as committing field executions and collective punishment against them. He also called on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions Christof Heyns to visit the occupied Palestinian territories and launch an immediate probe into field executions carried out by Israeli forces and settlers.

"The Israeli trend of dealing with Palestinians is field executions, then unjust trials that are interpreted in one sentence: Good work! Whoever kills a Palestinian in cold blood then it is a good work," Erekat said.

The remarks come amid recent deadly tensions between the Tel Aviv regime and Palestinians that have been triggered by Israel's imposition of sweeping restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem on August 26th and Israeli settlers' repeated attacks on the mosque.