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Al-Maliki says ICC could make a decision on investigating Israeli war crimes at any time

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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Maliki said today that the International Criminal court (ICC) is likely to make a decision at any time on opening an inquiry into war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians. “The occupation’s leaders should be afraid of this [investigation],” al-Maliki …

Israeli settlers torch olive trees near Nablus

July 20, 2020 English 0

Hours after a group of hardcore Israeli settlers torched fields planted with crops near the village of Beita in the north of the occupied West Bank, another group of fanatic settlers torched hundreds of olive trees in the nearby villages of Burin and Madama, according to a local source. Ghassan …

Settlers set fire to agricultural land south of Nablus

July 20, 2020 English 0

A group of illegal Israeli settlers set fire today to Palestinian private-owned agricultural land near the village of Beita, south of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Foad Maali, mayor of Beita, told WAFA that settlers from the illegal settlement of Tapuah, nearby, set fire …

Two more deaths from coronavirus in Hebron, total hits 64

July 20, 2020 English 0

The Ministry of Health announced today that two people died from COVID-19 (coronavirus) in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, the epicenter of the disease in Palestine, bringing up the death toll to 64. It said a 53-year-old woman died of the disease in Hebron city, while a 69-year-old …

Three Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike in Israeli jails

July 20, 2020 English 0

Three Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are currently on hunger strike, two of them in protest against their administrative detention without charge or trial, today said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Odi Shehadeh, from Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, and Fadi Ghneimat, from the town of Surif in the south …

Palestine National Council (PNC) sent letters to the world’s parliaments to save the life of captive Kamal Abu Wa’ar

July 20, 2020 English 0

PNC called on the parliaments of the world and their unions to intervene urgently to save the life of the prisoner, Kamal Abu Wa’ar, who suffers from cancer and COVID-19 Through identical messages, PNC Speaker, Mr. Saleem Al-Za’anoun, addressed to the parliaments and unions warned that the life of the …

Occupation police detain PA’s Governor of Jerusalem

July 19, 2020 English 0

Israeli occupation forces today detained Adnan Gheith, the Palestinian Authority’s Governor of Jerusalem, after raiding his home in the city. Israeli police raided and searched the house of Gheith in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, before detaining him. The Palestinian Authority official was arrested by Israel at least 17 …

Burin, Nablus District: Settlers torched trees and threw stones at house under construction. Soldiers fired tear gas and “rubber” bullets and obstructed impeded efforts

July 19, 2020 English, Video 0

On Thursday afternoon, 18 June 2020, Palestinian youths set fire to a field of thorns that lies between the eastern neighborhood of the village of Burin and the settlement outpost of Sneh Ya’akov (Giv’at Ronen). The settlers arrived to extinguish the fire and an argument ensued between them and the …

Palestine confirms 465 new coronavirus cases, 325 recoveries

July 19, 2020 English 0

The Ministry of Health announced today that 465 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Palestine during the past 24 hours, which raise the total cases in Palestine to 7,895. The Health Ministry said that 120 of the new cases were in occupied East Jerusalem, eight in Ramallah and al-Bireh, …

Russia’s UN Ambassador says Israeli annexation worsens situation in the region

July 19, 2020 English 0

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has said that an Israeli annexation of portions of Palestinian land would have a negative impact on the situation in the region as well as on the prospects of Palestinian-Israeli peace. “As a member of the Middle East Quartet, Russia stands …

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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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Al-Maliki says ICC could make a decision on investigating Israeli war crimes at any time

Israeli settlers torch olive trees near Nablus

Settlers set fire to agricultural land south of Nablus

Two more deaths from coronavirus in Hebron, total hits 64

Three Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike in Israeli jails

Palestine National Council (PNC) sent letters to the world’s parliaments to save the life of captive Kamal Abu Wa’ar

Occupation police detain PA’s Governor of Jerusalem

Burin, Nablus District: Settlers torched trees and threw stones at house under construction. Soldiers fired tear gas and “rubber” bullets and obstructed impeded efforts

Palestine confirms 465 new coronavirus cases, 325 recoveries

Russia’s UN Ambassador says Israeli annexation worsens situation in the region