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Presidential advisor says land swap depends on recognition of Palestinian state

July 30, 2017 English 0

RAMALLAH – Nabil Shaath, presidential advisor for foreign affairs Sunday rejected Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments regarding a possible land swap of settlements in Jerusalem and towns in Wadi Ara. He told Voice of Palestine that a land swap will be approved only when Israel recognizes a Palestinian state …

Election Commission announces initial results of complementary municipal elections

July 30, 2017 English 0

RAMALLAH – The Central Election Commission announced on Sunday the initial results of the complementary municipal election that was conducted on Saturday in 25 polling centers in the West Bank. The commission said the final percentage of the vote was 63.6% of the persons entitled to vote in 14 local …

Israeli forces shut down entrance to Ramallah village

July 30, 2017 English 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli army Sunday shut down the main entrance to the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, according to local sources. Locals told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided the village at midnight and searched several homes, before closing the main entrance to the village with …

Israeli army forces set up a military watchtower near Hebron

July 30, 2017 English 0

HEBRON – Israeli forces bulldozers Sunday razed lands in the village of Kharsa, in the district of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, in order to set up a military watchtower, local sources said. No’man Amro, head of Dura village council, said that Israeli army came to the village under …

Israeli settlers break into al-Aqsa mosque under heavy protection

July 30, 2017 English 0

JERUSALEM – Israeli settlers Sunday broke into al-Aqsa mosque under heavy protection of Israeli police, said WAFA correspondent in the city of Jerusalem. He said 140 extremist settlers, divided into groups, broke into the Muslim holy site through Bab al-Magharba and went on provocative tours in the vicinity of the …

Jerusalem rights’ center suggests economic plan to reopen 250 shops in old city

July 30, 2017 English 0

JERUSALEM – Ziad Hamouri, head of Al-Quds Center for Socio-economic Rights, Sunday suggested to form a plan to reopen the 250 shops in the Old City of Jerusalem, which were closed due to Israeli measures and skyrocketing taxes. He told Voice of Palestine in an interview that what is needed …

Al-Aqsa technical committee to begin inspection process

July 30, 2017 English 0

JERUSALEM – Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Sunday said that the technical committee formed to inspect the condition of Al-Aqsa Mosque after a two-week strike will begin its duties today. The committee, which was formed to determine whether Israeli police and settlers have attempted to modify, take or …

PA to deliver referral on the Israeli settlements file to the ICC

July 30, 2017 English 0

RAMALLAH – Minister of Foreign affairs Riyad al-Malki Sunday announced that Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor will receive in the upcoming days a referral on the Israeli settlements’ file to the ICC. Al-Malki told Voice of Palestine that the Palestinian side is awaiting Bensouda’s office to schedule …

PLO member denounces recent raid of PalMedia in Ramallah

July 30, 2017 English 0

RAMALLAH – PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi Sunday denounced in the strongest terms the Israeli army’s raid of PalMedia headquarters in Ramallah and the destruction and confiscation of property. She said in a statement that these actions are in direct contravention of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of …

13 orders de la detention administrative

July 30, 2017 French 0

Ramallah – Dimanche, l’avocat de la commission palestinienne des prisonniers et ex prisonniers, Ashraf Abu Sninah, a rapporté que les autorités de l’occupation israéliennes ont annoncé des ordres de la détention administrative contre 13 prisonniers. M. Abu Sninah a clarfiee que la durée des ordres est entre (3 -6) mois. …

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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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