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Settlers cut down 36 olive trees south of Nablus

June 4, 2020 English 0

Israeli settlers cut down around 36 fully grown and years old olive trees in the village of Burin to the south of Nablus, the northern occupied West Bank, according to an official. Munir Qadous, a member of the human rights group Yesh Din, told WAFA settlers sneaked their way into …

Israeli violations biggest threat to Palestinian biodiversity, say organizations

June 4, 2020 English 0

Marking World Environment Day, which coincides on June 5 under the theme of “Biodiversity”, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Environment Quality Authority (EQA) accused in a joint statement published today the Israeli occupation of being the main cause of biodiversity deterioration in the occupied Palestinian territories. …

Israeli forces round up 19 Palestinians from across the West Bank

June 4, 2020 English 0

Israeli forces today detained 19 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli forces detained five Palestinians in two raids across the northern West Bank district of Qalqilya. Four of the five detainees were identified as residents of Azzoun town, east of …

Head of Islamic Council banned from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for four months

June 4, 2020 English 0

Israeli police today handed the head of the Higher Islamic Council and former Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, an order banning him from entering the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for four months. Sabri told WAFA that the police came to his house in East Jerusalem and handed him …

Palestinian-owned tin house, built on location of demolished house, destroyed by Israeli forces

June 4, 2020 English 0

Israeli forces demolished today a Palestinian residential tin house in the town of Beit Ummar in the south of the occupied West Bank on the pretext it was built without a permit, displacing a family of 10 members, according to Mohammad Awad, a local anti-settlements activist. The house owner, Ali …

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 …

Minister of Health: Four new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Palestine; total 640

June 4, 2020 English 0

Four new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Palestine today, raising the total to 640, Minister of Health Mai Alkaila said in a statement. The four cases include three children aged 2, 5 and 6 years, of a woman from the northern West Bank village of Barta’a who yesterday tested …

Israeli army secures site inside Palestinian city for settlers’ ‘visit’

June 4, 2020 English 0

The Israeli army secured early this morning a site known as Joseph’s Tomb, inside the Palestinian-controlled northern West Bank city of Nablus, to allow dozens of settlers easy and secure access to the site, said Palestinian security sources. Nevertheless, Palestinians confronted the soldiers and settlers and pelted them with stones. …

PA charges Israel with extortion regarding clearance revenues, refuses to accept it

June 4, 2020 English 0

The Palestinian Authority (PA) refused to accept from Israel the May clearance revenues, last night said Hussein al-Sheikh, member of Fatah Central Committee and head of the Civil Affairs Authority, and accused Israel of extortion in order to deliver the money to the Palestinian treasury. “We confirm that we have …

New coronavirus case confirmed in the West Bank; total reaches 636 in Palestine

June 4, 2020 English 0

A new coronavirus case was confirmed last night in the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, bringing the total in Palestine to 636, according to Minister of Health Mai Alkaila. The new case was in the village of Barta’a and it was for a 28-year-old woman, said the minister 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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Settlers cut down 36 olive trees south of Nablus

Israeli violations biggest threat to Palestinian biodiversity, say organizations

Israeli forces round up 19 Palestinians from across the West Bank

Head of Islamic Council banned from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for four months

Palestinian-owned tin house, built on location of demolished house, destroyed by Israeli forces

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Minister of Health: Four new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Palestine; total 640

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