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Ma’an News Agency: Israeli settlers uproot dozens of olive trees, perform prayers in West Bank

September 9, 2017 English 0

Israeli settlers burned dozens of olive trees in Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, while Israeli settlers entered the village of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district and carried out prayers at a tomb located there. In the al-Sawiya area of the southern part of Nablus …

Dr. Ashrawi meets with Slovenian officials and participates in the 2017 Bled Strategic Forum

September 9, 2017 English 0

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi yesterday met with Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia Dr. Milan Brglez at the National Assembly Building in Ljubliana. Dr. Ashrawi expressed her gratitude to Slovenia for its support of Palestine and promotion of Palestinian self-determination and human rights. She …

Israeli PM’s wife may stand trial over corruption: attorney general

September 9, 2017 English 0

Israel’s attorney general said Friday he is considering indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, for fraud and misuse of state funds. An announcement issued by the Justice Ministry said that Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit is considering prosecuting Sara Netanyahu over using state money for personal gourmet dining service …

Palestine rules out Palestinian-Israel-U.S. trilateral summit during UN meeting

September 9, 2017 English 0

A Palestinian official ruled out on Thursday the possibility of a trilateral meeting between the Palestinians, the United States and Israel during a UN General Assembly meeting slated for mid-September. U.S. President Donald Trump, however, is scheduled to meet with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

Dr. Saeb Erekat: To the Diplomatic Community in Palestine,

September 6, 2017 English 0

Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed an acceleration of Israeli plans to further annex territory from the occupied State of Palestine as well as to consolidate and cement the presence of Israel’s colonial-settlement enterprise in various areas of Occupied Palestine, including in and around East Jerusalem, Hebron and …

Israel to remove sole water source in locale near Nablus

September 6, 2017 English 0

Israeli forces Tuesday notified Palestinians of their intentions to destroy the water pipeline providing services to residents in a locale near the village of Duma, south of Nablus, said a local official. Ghassan Daghles, monitoring Israeli settlement activity in the north of the West Bank, said forces handed residents notices …

Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians in West Bank

September 6, 2017 English 0

Israeli forces Tuesday detained at least 15 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank districts, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli army reportedly arrested five Palestinians from Tubas area, four others from Hebron, two from Jenin, three from Nablus, and one from Ramallah district. In the meantime, …

Foreign Minister cites progress in US position on peace process

September 6, 2017 English 0

Foreign and Expatriates Minister Riyad Malki said Tuesday that there is some progress in the U.S. position regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He told Voice of Palestine radio that the Palestinian leadership is continuing with its contacts with the US administration to revive the peace process. The Palestinians have been complaining …

Abbas sends condolences to US president for hurricane victims

September 6, 2017 English 0

President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday sent his condolences to US President Donald Trump for the victims of Hurricane Harvey that hit the State of Texas. He expressed his sorrow for the victims and said he stands with the United States in this calamity, wishing quick recovery to the injured.

Newspapers Review: Groundwork for new Israeli settlement focus of dailies

September 6, 2017 Newspapers 0

Laying the groundwork for a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land belonging to the village of Jaloud, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, dominated the Tuesday front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies. Al-Quds reported Jewish settlers started construction work on two settlement outposts, one near Jaloud in …

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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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