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Newspaper Review: Dailies highlight latest coronavirus deaths in Palestine

September 13, 2020 Newspapers 0

The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused today on the Ministry of Health’s daily report yesterday which said that six deaths from coronavirus and 650 new infections were registered in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The dailies also highlighted the international and regional reactions against the tripartite …

Newspapers review: Lockdown easing, home demolitions focus of dailies

August 14, 2020 Newspapers 0

The Palestinian government’s decision to further ease the coronavirus lockdown together with the ongoing demolitions of Palestinian property as part of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians hit the front-page headlines in today’s Palestinian Arabic dailies. Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the government announced new measures to cope with …

Newspapers Review: Coronavirus remains the main topic of the Palestinian dailies

July 16, 2020 Newspapers 0

Coronavirus remained the main topic of the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today, which said that three people have died of the disease in the West Bank and 293 new cases were recorded yesterday. Al-Hayat al-Jadida said one of the fatalities was a 12-day-old baby. It …

Newspapers Review: Corona resulting in extending the lockdown in Palestine focus of dailies

July 13, 2020 Newspapers 0

The growing number of coronavirus cases in Palestine and the government’s decision to extend the latest 10-day lockdown have dominated the front page coverage in the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today. Al-Ayyam said in its main front-page headline story that the Palestinian government, which extended the ban on travel …

Newspapers Review: Putin-Abbas phone conversation, coronavirus highlight of dailies

July 9, 2020 Newspapers 0

The telephone conversation between President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as well as the latest in the coronavirus pandemic were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today. Al-Hayat al-Jadida made the telephone conversation as its top story and said in the …

Newspapers Review: Corona, demolition orders and death of prisoner focus of dailies

July 7, 2020 Newspapers 0

Each of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today highlighted on its front page a different topic. Al-Ayyam highlighted one death from coronavirus and 64 new cases in Palestine, while al-Quds highlighted the Israeli demolition orders against 30 houses and structures in East Jerusalem’s Isawiyya neighborhood for construction without permit, …

Newspapers review: Settlers’ attacks, Palestinians stranded in Egypt focus of dailies

June 16, 2020 Newspapers 0

Ongoing Israeli settler attacks across the West Bank besides to efforts to bring back Palestinians stranded in Egypt due to the novel coronavirus pandemic through Jordan hit the front page headlines in the three Palestinian dailies. Highlighting settlers’ attacks in their main front page articles, al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that …

Newspaper Review: Injuries during anti-annexation protests focus of dailies

June 14, 2020 Newspapers 0

News about the injuries among Palestinians during protests against the Israeli annexation plan made headlines in the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday. Al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that four Palestinians were injured and dozens suffered from suffocation yesterday after Israeli forces suppressed a protest against the …

Newspapers Review: Escalated demolitions, extension of emergency state focus of dailies

June 4, 2020 Newspapers 0

The escalation of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures, particularly in the Jordan Valley, and the extension of the state of emergency in the West Bank over coronavirus dominated the front page headlines in today’s Palestinian Arabic dailies. Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israeli occupation authorities demolished Palestinian residential …

Newspapers Review: Israeli army killing of Palestinian man near Ramallah focus of dailies

May 30, 2020 Newspapers 0

The Israeli army killing yesterday of a Palestinian man near Ramallah was highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today. The papers said the army “executed” the Palestinian man “in cold blood” after alleging he attempted to ram them with his car. Al-Hayat al-Jadida said …

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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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