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Identical letters on Continuous Israeli Violations and Crimes against Palestinian people
Identical letters sent by Ambassador Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, on Israeli Continuous Violations and Crimes against Palestinian people
Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submit Second Communication to the International Criminal Court on Israeli War Crimes
four Palestinian human rights organisations whose mandate it is to pursue justice and accountability, delivered a communication pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq, Aldameer, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights provided evidence of the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Rafah between 1 and 4 August 2014 following the invocation of the controversial Hannibal Directive by the Israeli military forces.
General Delegation of Palestine Institutional Development
GDOP institutional development, including the following:
Israeli policies of exclusion and discrimination, along with its government’s inflammatory statements contribute greatly to the escalation of tensions in the region. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls upon people of conscience to respond on
Many local, regional and international civil society organizations have issued a call for an International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Citizens of Israel on January 30th 2016. This is in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent incitement against Israel’s minority Palestinian population, as well as the longer history of institutionalised racism and discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel.
A call for the International Community to respond to Israeli incitement against its minority Palestinian population
Recent inflammatory statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have prompted the call for an International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian citizens of Israel on January 30th 2016. This call by various civil society organizations asks people of conscience globally to act in solidarity with Palestinian-Israelis and to help bring their stories of discrimination and exclusion to the attention of the international community.
Dr. Ashrawi: Sectarian violence in Israel is the direct result of a hate culture generated by the occupation
“We strongly condemn the vandalization of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. Such an act is the direct result of a hate culture generated by racism and the occupation with impunity, exceptionalism and entitlement. The international community is responsible to protect both Palestinian holy sites and people from such Israeli sectarian attacks and to put an end to such lawlessness in Israel.”
PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi made these comments during a meeting with a visiting delegation representing the interfaith Tree of Life Educational Fund at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah.
Dr. Erekat: A New Year of Israel’s Occupation Has Begun with Continued War Crimes
Dr. Saeb Erekat, the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization, strongly condemned the recent Israeli plans to advance its colonization operations throughout the Occupied State of Palestine, which primarily aim to further divide and isolate Occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Dr. Erekat stressed that Israel’s illegal policies are based on the continued demolition of Palestinian homes with the intention to forcibly transfer the Palestinian population and replace them with more Israeli settlers.
It is time to divest from all companies and organizations that are complicit in the Israeli occupation and its settlement enterprise
Statement by PLO Secretary General Dr. Saeb Erekat on Netanyahu’s statement on Jewish Terrorism
Mr. Netanyahu is claiming that the killing of any human being by a Jew is not comparable to the killing of a Jew by a non-Jew. This is probably why the terrorists who killed the Dawabsheh family haven’t been arrested just as Abu Khdeir family is still waiting for a ruling over the terrorists who burnt alive their 16 years old son, Mohammad.
Dr. Ashrawi on Israel’s recent escalation of its colonial settlement enterprise
According to a report by Peace Now, the Israeli Ministry of Housing is working on plans to construct 55,548 illegal settlement units in the West Bank (including occupied East Jerusalem); this includes plans to build more than 25,000 units on the Palestinian side of the Apartheid Wall; 8,372 units in the E-1 area; two new settlements (GivatEitam, south of Bethlehem and Bitronot/Brosh, northern Jordan Valley); and over 12,000 units in occupied East Jerusalem and the Old City, among other illegal settlement projects.
Palestine Prime Minister Dr Rami Hamdallah receives Australia Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, the Hon Christoher Pyne MP
Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamdallah, received, on Sunday December 13, at his office in Ramallah, the Australian minister for Industry, Science and Innovation Hon Christopher Payne MP, and briefed him on the latest political and economic developments.