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Israel detains five from Bethlehem area following clashes in al-Khader

July 24, 2017 Prisoners 0

BETHLEHEM – Israeli forces detained early Monday five Palestinians from Bethlehem district, in the southern West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources, hours after soldiers clashed with Palestinian residents of the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem. Palestinians protesting the Israeli measures at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem clashed with Israeli …

Israeli forces detain 32 Palestinians from West Bank

July 23, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces overnight and Sunday morning detained 32 Palestinians, including minors and former prisoners, during raids in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces detained two minor girls aged 16 and 17 from Silwan, Jerusalem, …

Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians, including Fatah officials from Jerusalem

July 21, 2017 Prisoners 0

JERUSALEM – Israeli forces Friday detained at least 10 Palestinians, including Fatah officials and activists, during multiple raids across East Jerusalem. Israeli police detained former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and member of Fatah Revolutionary Council after storming his home in the city. Police also detained Fatah movement’s Jerusalem Secretary-General Adnan …

Israeli forces detain 20 Palestinians in East Jerusalem, West Bank

July 20, 2017 Prisoners 0

JERUSALEM – Israeli forces Thursday detained at least 20 Palestinians, including several minors, during multiple overnight raids in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, said Palestine Prisoner’s Society. Israeli police detained at least 10 Palestinians, mostly minors, from East Jerusalem accused of throwing rocks at forces in their neighborhoods. In …

Israeli forces detain 23 Palestinians in West Bank raids

July 19, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces Wednesday detained at least 23 Palestinians and assaulted others mostly during multiple predawn raids across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, said Palestine Prisoner’s Society and Palestinian security sources. Israeli police detained at least six Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. In the southern West Bank, Israeli …

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, East Jerusalem

July 18, 2017 Prisoners 0

JERUSALEM – Israeli forces Tuesday detained at least 11 Palestinians during raids across the West Bank and from East Jerusalem, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society. Israeli police detained at least three Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City, allegedly for taking part in protests against the installation of metal detectors outside Al-Aqsa …

Israeli security arrests Gaza-based UN official en route to Jerusalem

July 17, 2017 Prisoners 0

Israeli forces have detained a United Nations official based in the besieged Gaza Strip, with neither the UN nor Israeli authorities commenting publicly on the case five days after the arrest. According to local NGO the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Hamdan Muhammad Hassan Timraz, the assistant regional director for …

Committee: 19 Palestinians suffering of medical neglect in 2 Israeli prisons

July 17, 2017 Prisoners 0

The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs accused the Israel Prison Service (IPS) on Sunday of “deliberately neglecting sick Palestinian prisoners” held in the Ashkelon and Ramla detention centers. Committee lawyer Karim Ajweh said that the healths of 19 Palestinians currently being treated in the Ramla and Ashkelon prison hospitals were …

Update: Israel detains 15 Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem

July 17, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – Israeli forces Monday detained at least 15 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank districts and East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said Israeli forces detained three Palestinians from the village of Anabta, near Tulkarm, three others from Qalqilia district, three from Hebron, …

Petition calls for immediate release of Palestinian women activists held by Israel

July 17, 2017 Prisoners 0

RAMALLAH – The Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association started a petition directed to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the European Union calling for the immediate release of Palestinian women activists, Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, who were arrested by Israel …

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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

Israel detains five from Bethlehem area following clashes in al-Khader

Israeli forces detain 32 Palestinians from West Bank

Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians, including Fatah officials from Jerusalem

Israeli forces detain 20 Palestinians in East Jerusalem, West Bank

Israeli forces detain 23 Palestinians in West Bank raids

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, East Jerusalem

Israeli security arrests Gaza-based UN official en route to Jerusalem

Committee: 19 Palestinians suffering of medical neglect in 2 Israeli prisons

Update: Israel detains 15 Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem

Petition calls for immediate release of Palestinian women activists held by Israel