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Palestinian Shot Dead After Alleged Stabbing Attempt in Jerusalem

February 23, 2020 English 0

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed, on Saturday, the death of the alleged attacker, who was shot and killed earlier in the day by the Israeli police in Bab al-Asbat area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. Israeli police opened a barrage of gunfire the Palestinian man at Lions’ …

Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians Near Hebron

February 23, 2020 English 0

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and attacked Palestinian protesters, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. Media activist Mohammad Awad said many soldiers invaded Abu at-Toaq area, near the main entrance of Beit Ummar, and …

‘Inequitable’: Pope indirectly criticises Trump’s Israel-Palestine plan

February 23, 2020 English 0

Pope Francis was speaking at a conference of bishops from the Mediterranean in the southern Italian city of Bari Pope Francis on Sunday criticised “inequitable solutions” to the Palestine-Israel conflict, in his first remarks since the US President Donald Trump announced his controversial Middle East plan last month. Speaking at …

PNN meets with German delegation to discuss Independent Media in Palestine

February 23, 2020 English 0

PNN journalists on Saturday met with a German Delegation visiting Ramallah, to talk about several issues in Palestine, most importantly the independent media, community journalism and civic education. The delegation, which consisted of Journalists, teachers and mayors, was visiting different parts of Palestine and getting to learn more about it …

Bennett in support of soldiers who carried Palestinian’s body on bulldozer

February 23, 2020 English 0

Gaza medical sources announced that a Palestinian youth was martyred, on Sunday morning, after the Israeli occupation forces opened fire and a shell towards a group of young men east of Al-Farahin town, east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. It is noteworthy that a bulldozer accompanied by …

Israel set to build 1,000 settlement units in Jerusalem

February 23, 2020 English 0

The Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Housing are expected to endorse the settlement expansion plan in occupied Jerusalem, announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. Today, Sunday, Israeli public radio reported that the construction of 1,000 settlement units in the area where the settlement of Givat Hamatos …

Josep Borrell : reiterated the EU’s continued support to Palestinian state building

February 23, 2020 English 0

Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union/Vice-President of the European Commission, met on Thursday in Brussels with the Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr Riyad Al Malki. They exchanged views on relations between the European Union and the Palestinian Authority. High …

Minister says Palestine is clear of Coronavirus

February 23, 2020 English 0

Minister of health Mai Alkaila said during a press conference held in Ramallah that Palestine has no confirmed patients with Coronavirus. The minister said that the ministry’s medical staff has tested 138 people suspected of being infected with the Coronavirus and all have come back negative but can still be …

Israeli police summon Jerusalem governor for interrogation

February 23, 2020 English 0

Israeli police summoned today evening Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith to appear before the Israeli intelligence for interrogation. A source in the governor’s office said Israeli police summoned Ghaith to appear before interrogators at al-Maskobiyyeh Detention and Interrogation Center. Israeli authorities last week handed the governor an order banning him from …

Arab League condemns Israel’s settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem

February 23, 2020 English 0

The Arab League condemned on Sunday Israel’s announcement to construct thousands of new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Saeed Abu Ali, denounced the Israeli plan aimed at establishing a settlement neighborhood on the lands …

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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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Palestinian Shot Dead After Alleged Stabbing Attempt in Jerusalem

Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians Near Hebron

‘Inequitable’: Pope indirectly criticises Trump’s Israel-Palestine plan

PNN meets with German delegation to discuss Independent Media in Palestine

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Israeli police summon Jerusalem governor for interrogation

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