Excellency,

Since the beginning of October 2015, we have written numerous letters to document the dangerous and rising tensions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of Occupied Palestine due to the illegal actions, provocations and incitement by Israel, the occupying Power, including by extremist Israeli settlers and religious zealots, against the Palestinian people, their land and their holy places.  In what has now become a weekly letter, we write to Your Excellency to alert the international community to the ongoing tensions and instability and the suffering, every single day, by Palestinian civilians, including children, from the occupation’s daily subjugation, oppression and aggression. [Read more…]

Excellency,

I write to draw your attention to the critical situation ongoing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to the grave reality being faced by the unprotected Palestinian civilian population as a direct result of the Israeli military occupation and the massive human rights violations being perpetrated against them by the occupying Power.

We must highlight the deepening vulnerability of Palestinian children, as they continue to bear the brunt of increasingly oppressive, violent and illegal Israeli policies and practices. For nearly five decades, Palestinian children have suffered at the hands of the Israeli occupying forces and will tragically continue to suffer as long as Israel, the occupying Power, remains immune from any consequences for its blatant and systematic human rights violations and crimes.  In this connection, we bring to your immediate attention that yesterday, 23 November, Israeli occupying forces killed in cold blood three Palestinian children in different parts of the occupied West Bank. [Read more…]