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Israeli army detains 13 Palestinians in West Bank

July 30, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces last night detained at least 13 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank districts, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in Hebron district, three from Ramallah and two each from Bethlehem, Jenin, and Nablus districts. Israeli police arrested more …

IPS releases Shirin Issawi from solitary confinement after 36 days

July 28, 2017 Prisoners 0

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has ended the solitary confinement of Palestinian lawyer Shirin Issawi and will transfer her from Jalama to HaSharon prison next week, according to a statement on Thursday from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs. A lawyer of the committee, Yamin Zidan, who had previously filed …

Army Abducts A Palestinian In Kufur Qaddoum

July 27, 2017 Prisoners 0

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man from his home in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded the town from several directions, before breaking into the home of ‘Assef Hikmat Ali, 20, violently searched …

Including Two Teenagers, Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Nablus

July 27, 2017 Prisoners 0

The Nablus office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), in northern West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, four young Palestinian men, after invading their homes and violently searching them, in the governorate. The PPS said several army vehicles invaded Qaryout village, south of Nablus, …

Army Abducts Seven Palestinians In Hebron

July 27, 2017 Prisoners 0

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several areas in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, illegally confiscated cash and a car, and abducted seven Palestinians, in addition to summoning a former political prisoner for interrogation. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers stormed and violently searched many homes …

Israeli forces detain 34 Palestinians in West Bank

July 26, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces overnight and early Wednesday detained 34 Palestinians, including a female ex-detainee, during military raids into various West Bank districts, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli army detained nine Palestinians, including a female ex-detainee, in the Hebron area, in addition to 10 others from Tulkarem. Six …

Army Abducts Eleven Palestinians In Tulkarem, Jenin And Bethlehem, Injure One In Qalqilia

July 26, 2017 Prisoners 0

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, many Palestinian communities in the West Bank governorates of Tulkarem, Jenin and Bethlehem, stormed and ransacked many homes and abducted eleven Palestinians, in addition to wounding one in Qalqilia, and causing many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. The Tulkarem office …

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Hebron

July 26, 2017 Prisoners 0

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Hebron city, al-Fawwar refugee camp, in addition to Surif and Doura towns, searched many homes, causing damage, and abducted six Palestinians. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded many neighborhoods in the city, searched them, and abducted …

Israeli forces detain 24 Palestinians, including activist from West Bank

July 25, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces Tuesday detained 24 Palestinians, including an activist and five minors, during multiple overnight raids across the West Bank, said Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and local sources. PPS said Israeli forces raided Kobar village, northwest of Ramallah, and detained Ibtisam al-Abed, whose son, Omar, who stabbed and …

Israel detains 83-year-old veteran politician, author

July 24, 2017 Prisoners 0

HEBRON – Israeli forces detained Sunday evening 83-year-old politician and author Mohammad Said Midieh while he was walking with advocates from the Defense of Land Committee near the illegal Jewish settlement of Karmei Tzur north of Hebron. Midieh’s son, Ghassan, told WAFA that settlers from Karmei Tzur got into a …

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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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Prisoners

Israeli army detains 13 Palestinians in West Bank

IPS releases Shirin Issawi from solitary confinement after 36 days

Army Abducts A Palestinian In Kufur Qaddoum

Including Two Teenagers, Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Nablus

Army Abducts Seven Palestinians In Hebron

Israeli forces detain 34 Palestinians in West Bank

Army Abducts Eleven Palestinians In Tulkarem, Jenin And Bethlehem, Injure One In Qalqilia

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Hebron

Israeli forces detain 24 Palestinians, including activist from West Bank

Israel detains 83-year-old veteran politician, author