Excellency,
As conditions continues to dangerously deteriorate, I am compelled draw your attention to the critical situation in the Occupied State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem. The illegal and destructive policies and practices by Israel, the occupying Power, continue to cause immense suffering among the Palestinian civilian population and to obstruct any potential for the peaceful resolution of this grave injustice.
Unprotected, despite the very clear provisions of international law according protection to civilians under foreign occupation, the Palestinian people continue to endure countless human rights violations and war crimes at the hands of the Israeli occupying forces and its illegal settlers. The international community, in particular the Security Council, must confront this unlawful situation and cannot continue to turn a blind eye as the rights of an entire people and the most fundamental pillars of international law are being so egregiously breached. Action must be taken to finally uphold international law and to bring an end to fifty years of Israeli occupation, along with all of Israel’s violations against the Palestinian people and their land.
The incidents mentioned below reflect only a few of the countless violations and crimes being perpetrated by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people. Israel’s belligerent military occupation is driven and sustained only by such illegal policies and practices that affect every single Palestinian, child, woman and man living under occupation, whether it be in Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or in the Gaza Strip, where nearly two million Palestinians continue to live in the world’s largest prison suffering massive collective punishment tantamount to a war crime. [Read more…]
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