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Palestinian Girl Hit by Israeli Settler Vehicle in Hebron

July 21, 2017 News 0

A Palestinian girl was left wounded after she was hit by an Israeli settler’s vehicle today, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Local sources told Quds Press that the 10-year old girl, Wijdan Faris Nasser Al-Jabari, was transferred to an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem for medical care …

Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Bethlehem

July 21, 2017 News 0

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Thursday at noon, a young Palestinian man, after he reportedly attempted to stab them, in Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian, identified as Mohmmad Hussein Tnouh, 26, was shot with four live rounds, before an army jeep ran …

UN official calls for de-escalation in tension over Al-Aqsa Mosque

July 20, 2017 News 0

JERUSALEM – United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, Thursday expressed deep concern over the recent tension following Israeli installation of metal detectors outside the gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque, a Muslim holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City. “I am deeply concerned by the recent surge …

Israeli army shoots dead alleged Palestinian attacker near Bethlehem

July 20, 2017 News 0

BETHLEHEM – Israeli forces Thursday shot and killed a Palestinian from the village of Taqou, east of Bethlehem, after he allegedly attempted to stab soldiers near the village, according to Palestinian security and medical sources. Soldiers shot Mohammad Hussein Tanouh, 26, in the head and chest killing him instantly. The …

President Abbas discusses Israeli measures with Turkish counterpart

July 20, 2017 News 0

RAMALLAH – President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday discussed over phone with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdo?an the recent Israeli measures around flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Abbas and Erdo?an reportedly discussed the Israeli installation of metal detectors at the gates leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque, assaults against Muslim worshippers and the attempt …

PM Hamdallah to European diplomats: Stop Israel now

July 20, 2017 News 0

RAMALLAH – Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah Thursday urged the European Union to take immediate action to pressure Israel to stop its violations against Palestinian rights and holy places. Hamdallah discussed during a meeting at his Ramallah office with EU diplomats the recent developments in Jerusalem, particularly Israel’s measures at Al-Aqsa …

Adalah petitions Supreme Court demanding return of bodies of Al Aqsa shooting incident

July 20, 2017 News 0

HAIFA – Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday demanding that the Israeli police immediately return for burial the bodies of the three suspects involved in last Friday’s shooting attack at Al Aqsa Mosque compound in …

Government: Israel is pouring oil on fire

July 20, 2017 News 0

RAMALLAH – Israel is pouring oil on the fire with what it is doing in Jerusalem and the occupied territories, government spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud said on Thursday. “Announcing the construction of a new settlement northeast of Jerusalem and continuing with its assault against Al-Aqsa Mosque means pouring more oil on …

Israel demolishes Arab home in Naqab village

July 20, 2017 News 0

NAQAB – Israeli authorities demolished on Thursday a home in the Bedouin Arab village of Wadi Na’am in the Naqab region, in southern Israel, under the pretext of construction without a permit, according to Arabs 48 website. The demolished home was a shelter to an orphaned Palestinian family, it said. …

Official: Unpredictable consequences if metal detectors are not removed

July 20, 2017 News 0

JERUSALEM – There can be unpredictable consequences if metal detectors the Israeli police had set up outside the gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque are not removed by Friday, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Adnan Husseini, said on Thursday. He told Voice of Palestine radio that thousands of Muslims …

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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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