PA cabinet leader Rami Hamdallah
PA cabinet leader Rami HamdallahFlash 90/STR

The Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet in Ramallah on Saturday called for the immediate implementation of international laws and for international protection for the Palestinians in light of what it called "the bloodthirsty crimes and attacks of the settlers and the security forces against our people."

The demand came after a Palestinian Arab woman from the village of Biddya, southwest of Shechem (Nablus), was killed on Highway 60 in Samaria on the weekend, with her family claiming that Jews threw rocks at her car.

The woman has been identified by Palestinian Arab media as 48-year-old mother of eight, Aisha Mohammed Rabi. She died in a hospital in Shechem from a head injury sustained in the incident, according to the Wafa news agency.

“The stones came from the side where the settlement is. I could hear the people speak Hebrew, but I didn’t see them,” the woman’s husband told the Reuters news agency.

The Judea and Samaria District of the Israel Police, in cooperation with the unit responsible for nationalistic crime and the Israel Security Agency’s (Shin Bet) Jewish Division, have launched an investigation into the incident.

Following the incident, a strike was declared in the village of Biddya during which all businesses and public institutions will be closed.

On Saturday, Yusuf al-Mahmoud, a spokesman for the PA cabinet, called the woman’s death a "terrorist attack".

In addition, Mahmoud accused Israel of killing seven Palestinian Arabs and injuring 250 on Friday during the violent riots along the Gaza border. He described those who were killed and injured in the violent riots as "peaceful demonstrators."

He blamed Israel for the escalation in both Judea and Samaria and Gaza and called for the implementation of national reconciliation in light of the serious challenges facing the Palestinian national enterprise.