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Government condemns Likud’s decision to annex West Bank settlements

January 1, 2018 English 0

The government condemned on Monday the approval by Likud party, Israel’s ruling party, of a draft resolution that calls on Likud leaders and Israeli lawmakers to agree on annexing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Government’s spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud described the resolution as “an outrageous violation of the resolutions …

Israel to demolish home of Palestinian prisoner in Qabatiya

January 1, 2018 English 0

Israeli forces notified the family of Yousef Khalid Kmail, a prisoner in Israeli jails, about their intention to demolish part of their home as a punitive measure for their son’s murder of an Israeli settler in early October. Israeli soldiers raided the home of Kmail’s family in the town of …

UN General Assembly adopts resolution rejecting Trump’s Jerusalem announcement

December 21, 2017 English 0

The United Nations General Assembly Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A total of 128 countries voted in favor of the resolution, nine countries voted against, including …

Presidency welcomes UN General Assembly vote on Jerusalem

December 21, 2017 English 0

The presidency Thursday welcomed the UN General Assembly’s vote on a resolution regarding the legal status of the city of Jerusalem. Presidential Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said the decision once again reflects the international community’s position with the Palestinian people, which did not give way to being threatened or blackmailed. …

Israel imprisons six, including minor, bans another from Jerusalem

December 21, 2017 English 0

The Israeli military court Thursday sentenced six Palestinian men from Jerusalem to prison for being part of a youth group that aims to support Al-Aqsa Mosque. The six men who were imprisoned for being part of the group, Youth of Al Aqsa Mosque, are Izz Al-Din Abu Isbeih (for 12 …

Abbas concludes official visit to Saudi Arabia, leaves to France

December 21, 2017 English 0

President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday ended a three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia and is heading to the French capital Paris. During his visit, Abbas met with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir. Upon arriving in …

FM at UN Jerusalem session: US decision affects its position as broker for peace only

December 21, 2017 English 0

Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki Thursday said the United States’ decision will not affect the status of Jerusalem, but affect the status of the United States as a broker for peace. He said during the 10th emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly that the US has failed in the …

‘Mr. Trump, you can’t buy Turkey’s democratic will’ – Erdogan on Jerusalem UN vote

December 21, 2017 English 0

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Donald Trump that he “cannot buy Turkey’s democratic will,” referring to the upcoming UN vote on the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “I hope and expect the United States won’t get the result it expects from there (the UN General Assembly) …

VIDEO : IOF arrest mother, hours after taking her teenage daughter

December 21, 2017 English 0

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Tuesday arrested popular resistance activist, Nariman Tamimi, hours after arresting her 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi from their home in Nabi Saleh village, northern West Bank. PNN reporter said that the occupation arrested Tamimi, while she was in front of “Benyamin” Israeli police station north of Ramallah, …

UN commences emergency session to discuss Trump resolution on Jerusalem

December 21, 2017 English 0

The United Nations General Assembly Thursday began its 10th emergency session under the title of “United for Peace”; to decide on a draft resolution regarding the illegality of US President Donald Trump recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. At the request of Turkey and Yemen, the meeting at …

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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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