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Occupation forces injure 23 Palestinians in Abu Dis

July 4, 2020 English 0

The Israeli occupation forces injured 23 Palestinians today during a crackdown on the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, said the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC). The forces broke into the town on Friday evening provoking clashes with local Palestinian civilians, during which the former used gunfire, rubber-coated rounds …

Six Palestinians injured by Israeli troops near Nablus

July 4, 2020 English 0

At least six Palestinians were injured today when Israeli occupation forces attacked them while protesting in the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, against Israeli plans to confiscate large tracts of Palestinian-owned land in the area, medical sources said. Dozens of protesters performed the …

Israeli forces injure 15 Palestinians in Kafr Qaddum

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At least 15 Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces today during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which takes place every Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank, local sources said. Morad Shtewi, an official in charge of the popular resistance file in the …

UN diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi supports Palestinian right to fight injustice by all means

July 4, 2020 English 0

Senior United Nations diplomat and veteran Lakhdar Brahimi has voiced support for the right of the Palestinian people to fight the injustice they have been experiencing, including the US-backed Israeli annexation plan, by all means available to them. In an open letter to former senior government leaders, officials, intellectuals and …

More than 1000 at a Day of Rage protest against Israeli annexation in NYC

July 4, 2020 English 0

On Wednesday, July 1, over 1000 people gathered in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to rally and march against the planned Zionist annexation of the West Bank. The international Day of Rage was locally organized by Within Our Lifetime and the NY4Palestine coalition. The rally began at 4 p.m., but the crowd …

Fatah and Hamas announce deal to oppose annexation together

July 4, 2020 English 0

Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have reached a landmark agreement to mount unified resistance to Israel’s West Bank annexation plan, as well as torpedo the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. Ahead of the deal’s announcement, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the effort to secure national unity, although it could …

+320 Latin American public figures, including former leaders, call for sanctions on Israel

July 4, 2020 English 0

Over 320 public figures from Latin America, including former leaders, signed yesterday a statement calling for imposing sanctions on Israel in response to its plan to annex portions of the occupied Palestinian territory and for its apartheid practices, according to the Palestinian Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement (BDS). Among the …

Over annexation plan, Chilean Senate approves resolution calling for review of all agreements with Israel

July 4, 2020 English 0

The Chilean Senate Wednesday approved, by 29 votes in favor, 6 abstentions and no votes against, a strong resolution calling upon the Chilean government to review all its agreements with Israel, among other things. The resolution called as well to promote legislation to ban all Israeli settlement products, ban companies …

Fatah and Hamas agree to join ranks in fighting Israel’s annexation plan

July 4, 2020 English 0

Fatah and Hamas agreed today to join ranks in fighting the imminent Israeli annexation plan. In a joint press conference, Fatah Central Committee member, Jibril Rjoub, who spoke in Ramallah, and Hamas deputy head, Saleh Arouri, who spoke via video conference from Beirut, said that both movements should unit their …

Palestinian Civil Society Reiterates Call for Immediate Targeted Sanctions to Stop Israel’s Annexation and Apartheid

July 3, 2020 English 0

Israel’s extremist government decided today to keep everyone in the dark about if and how it will make use of the “golden opportunity” offered by the Trump administration to embark on de jure annexation of large swathes of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. No one should be misled, however. Israel …

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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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Occupation forces injure 23 Palestinians in Abu Dis

Six Palestinians injured by Israeli troops near Nablus

Israeli forces injure 15 Palestinians in Kafr Qaddum

UN diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi supports Palestinian right to fight injustice by all means

More than 1000 at a Day of Rage protest against Israeli annexation in NYC

Fatah and Hamas announce deal to oppose annexation together

+320 Latin American public figures, including former leaders, call for sanctions on Israel

Over annexation plan, Chilean Senate approves resolution calling for review of all agreements with Israel

Fatah and Hamas agree to join ranks in fighting Israel’s annexation plan

Palestinian Civil Society Reiterates Call for Immediate Targeted Sanctions to Stop Israel’s Annexation and Apartheid