Settlements

Thousands Of New Housing Units along with New Funds to Expand Settlement

September 26, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, As a result of the anticipated international reactions, the Israeli government delayed the deliberations presented by the Civil Administration to construct thousands of settlement units in the West Bank, of which 30 units in the down town of occupied Hebron City, 2 kindergartens and a parking. Knowing …

Israeli Judaization , Settlement Activities , and Ethnic Cleansing Continue and Grow

September 21, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, Israeli ruling right-wing parties’ leaders are competing to see, who is the best in adopting and supporting settlements in the Palestinian Territory. Within the context of the occupation expansionist plans, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Army minister, said that his government agreed to build 1,400 settlement units during …

Israeli Gov’t Approves New Plans and Allocates Additional Budgets to Expand Settlements

September 11, 2017 Settlements 0

By : Madeeha Araj, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders are racing to take measures on the ground to consecrate the occupation and Judaize the Palestinian land by settling and launching more calls to annex and impose Israeli occupation law on the occupied West Bank. In a new development aimed at …

Israel celebrates 50 years of settlements building in the West Bank

September 6, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, In a dangerous step toward “racism” against the occupied Hebron city, where 250,000 Palestinians live, the Israeli occupation authorities have granted the settlement council in the down town of Hebron legal powers to manage the municipal affairs of 800 settlers, who settled in the heart of Hebron. …

Suspicious Channels Finance Building New Settlement in Jordan Valley

August 22, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, The Registrar of Israeli Associations disclosed that the Israeli SIGAL Fund Association supported by Netanyahu’s close friends annually allocates funds to the Israeli right-wing settlers through pumping millions of dollars to support settlements and settlers in the occupied territories. The association is funded by the Jewish “Filak” …

Israeli Government To Change the Civil Administration into Apparatus That Runs Settlers’ affairs

August 15, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, The Israeli occupation is working to change the Civil Administration – the occupation’s arm in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 – into a civil apparatus through doubling-up its workers and abolishing its status. During successive meetings with the settlement leaders to enhance awareness toward expanding the …

Over the last 6 months, Israeli settlement tenders surpass threefold than that of last year

August 13, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj Over the 1st half of the year 2017, the Israeli Settlers’ Government escalated settlement activity in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, despite of the Palestinian, Arab and International’s criticisms, as tenders for building new settlement units in the West Bank during the first 6 months of …

Israeli Government Creates New Facts to Guarantee Demographic Change in Jerusalem

August 2, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, Within the context of the Israeli ethnic cleansing and judaization strategy, Israeli PM Netanyahu requested the US envoys Jared Kouchner and Jason Greenblatt to agree on annexing settlements to Jerusalem in return for giving towns in Wadi Ara to the Palestinian Authority as part of a “future …

New Settlement Plans to Isolate East Jerusalem From Its Palestinian Surroundings

July 26, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, The Israeli government is backing a plan to build a new outpost containing 1,100 housing units in north-east Jerusalem that separates Palestinian communities and prevents the territorial contiguity among the East Jerusalem’s neighborhoods and other outskirts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh . According to the plan, construction in …

Israeli Gov’t Continues Settlement Activities, Judaization of Jerusalem under American silence

July 22, 2017 Settlements 0

By: Madeeha Araj, Netanyahu’s office recently denied any vow by Israel to reduce the pace of construction in settlements during future negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. This denial came in response to statements attributed to the US envoy, Jason Greenblatt , to the so-called “peace process”, during a meeting with …

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Appeal from Palestine to the Peoples and States of the World

For many years, Israel has remained an occupying power, occupying the territory of another state and controlling its people. It is a colonial state enforcing settler colonialism, including confiscating land, transferring its population to the territory it is occupying, and enacting a separate living system therein. It is a State that commits grave violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law. It is a State that denies the Palestinian people their right to self-determination and national independence and denies the rights of Palestine refugees, including their right to return, ownership and compensation. It is a State that has ignored international will, rejected and violated all relevant United Nations resolutions and conventions.

Recently, the situation has worsened considerably. We have seen an increasing Israeli shift toward extremism, fundamentalism and even fascism. We have also seen a complete reversal of concluded agreements and attempts to take settler colonialism to another level. Israeli officials have publicly voiced positions that reject the Palestinian people’s existence and national rights and confirm the desire to seize all of the Palestinian territory.

As well, Trump’s recently issued so-called, “Vision for Peace, Prosperity and a Brighter Future for Israel and the Palestinian People” is in fact not a peace plan, but rather an adoption of the outrageous ideologies that advance greater Israel, deny Palestinian national existence, and
attempt to find possible solutions for the “Palestinian inhabitants” in a disconnected entity that they can call a state – if they meet many additional and impossible conditions. The plan paves the way for Israel to annex large swathes of the West Bank, including the areas of illegal settlements, the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea, and areas west of the Wall – which the International Court of Justice affirmed the illegality of and the need to dismantle and make reparations for the damage caused by its construction in 2004.

The Israeli Prime Minister has now and in many instances declared his intention to annex these areas, a position that was stated expressly in the partnership agreement of the current Israeli government – which makes it part of official government policy – along with the annexation of occupied East Jerusalem, which the international community has unanimously rejected and deemed to be null and void. Such Israeli policies and procedures constitute a grave violation of the principles and relevant provisions of international law – even annul international law and the conduct of States, upon which the international system as a whole is based – extinguish the possibility of a negotiated settlement between the two sides, and thus inevitably provoke a long confrontation with catastrophic results.

It is the duty of the international community, its States, people and civil society organizations to confront this, prevent it from happening and, if it does, to take punitive and deterrent measures. Reluctance to seriously confront all of this would be a shameful abrogation and would create repercussions in the region as well as the international system. Inaction would be a betrayal of values and principles, a retreat from a negotiated settlement and the establishment of peace in the region based on partition into two states.

As concerns the aforementioned, we, Palestinian leaders from all walks of life, including academics, former officials and civil society, appeal to the international community to take the necessary positions and measures to confront and stop this injustice, to preserve the goal of establishing peace and a secure and viable future for the people of the region, including the Palestinian and Israeli peoples, each in their independent state. We specifically ask that immediate action be taken to affirm:

1. By various means, the position against any annexation by Israel of the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a grave violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, as well as in flagrant violation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

2. The need for all States of the world to abide by relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016), specifically to not recognize any changes to the 1967 borders. Additionally, that all States with relations or cooperation agreements with Israel commit to the principle of distinction between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to reject any attempt by Israel to disparage this principle.

3. The need for all States to take specific measures against settlements, settlers and settlement products, including preventing such products from entering their markets, in implementation of the legal contractual obligations of States (third parties) in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, 1949.

4. The need for political entities and civil society organizations to confront the attempt by a few governments to criminalize the above measures, as such criminalization would constitute a violation of international law, or to criminalize support for boycotting Israel on the basis of political and moral considerations, as such criminalization would constitute a violation of values of democracy and fundamental rights of citizens in the concerned States.

5. The need for all States that have relations or cooperation agreements with Israel to take punitive measures in regard to these agreements, in the event Israel takes any step to implement annexation.

6. The need for the States that have not yet recognized, to extend recognition to the State of Palestine, on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in compliance with the principle
of partition into two states, acknowledging the existence of two states, and upholding a politically negotiated two-state solution – a step that will guarantee the above.

7. Support the steps taken by the State of Palestine and other countries before the International Criminal Court, and national courts throughout the world that allow such legal challenges, against Israeli officials responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including annexation.

8. Support Palestinian, Arab and international efforts in the UN Security Council, General Assembly and other international institutions against any Israeli move toward annexation, in the event such step is taken. In addition, to condemn and declare this move illegal, null and void; to call on all States of the world to renounce and refuse recognition, and to deem Israel an outlaw state.

9. Reaffirm opposition to the so-called Trump Vision and reject all positions by right-wing extremists and settlers in Israel and extreme religious right in America – all of whom aim to achieve greater Israel, deny the national rights and even the national existence of the Palestinian people.

10. Support the Palestinian people, Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in their continuing struggle to confront annexation in the face of Trump’s Vision and achieve their national goals, freedom and independence.

We, the undersigned, well aware of the great responsibilities placed upon us and the Palestinian people to strengthen our capacities, first and foremost the unity of the Palestinian people and its institutions in confronting the aforementioned, hereby address this appeal to all components of the international community to uphold their responsibilities and take the necessary positions and measures at this historic juncture.

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