Peace in Palestine cannot be achieved amid unlawful demolitions
4 years, 1 month ago

Peace in Palestine cannot be achieved amid unlawful demolitions

Al Jazeera  

Theodor Herzl, the father of Israel’s foundational Zionist ideology, once said, “If I wish to substitute a new building for an old one, I must demolish before I construct”. Recent examples of Herzl’s colonial paradigm of displacement and replacement include continuing large-scale home demolitions in Wadi Hummus, a neighbourhood in southeast Jerusalem that is supposed to be under the Palestinian Authority’s control, and threats to demolish 52 West Bank schools, such as the Ras al-Tin primary school near Ramallah. Thus, despite hopes held by some that US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Abraham Accords” might halt Israel’s anticipated annexation of large swaths of the West Bank, recently there has been an alarming spike in house demolitions in East Jerusalem and across the illegally occupied West Bank. The Palestinian leadership’s threats to end security cooperation with Israel, and approach international bodies of justice in response to Israel’s actions in Wadi Hummus, also proved hollow. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia recently took important steps to document and expose the real cost of Israel’s colonialism and occupation.

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UN General Assembly pushes for Palestinian state
3 weeks ago

UN General Assembly pushes for Palestinian state

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations: The UN General Assembly on Tuesday called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state, convening an international conference in June to try to jumpstart a two-state solution. In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting no, and seven …

UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation
3 months, 1 week ago

UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The General Assembly’s consideration of the resolution began Tuesday with Mansour stressing that any country that thinks the Palestinian people “will accept a life of servitude” — or that …

UN considers resolution demanding Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories
3 months, 1 week ago

UN considers resolution demanding Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year and calling for sanctions and an arms embargo against the country. Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, urged member nations to reject the measure, describing it as “an attempt …

Welby: Ending Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories ‘legal necessity’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Welby: Ending Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories ‘legal necessity’

The Independent  

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A comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution is still achievable
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution is still achievable

Al Jazeera  

The landmark ruling of the International Court of Justice on July 19 calls for the immediate end of Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid rule. The sovereignty of Palestine, based on the two-state solution and the borders of June 4, 1967, cannot be held hostage to Israel’s apartheid policies. The two-state solution is a matter of international law, not of Israel’s …

What ICJ Ruling On Israel’s Occupation Of Palestinian Territories Means, What Are Its Implications?
5 months ago

What ICJ Ruling On Israel’s Occupation Of Palestinian Territories Means, What Are Its Implications?

News 18  

The International Court of Justice has ruled against Israel’s long-term occupation of Palestinian Territories, calling it “unlawful”. The court also concluded that Israel’s legislation imposes near complete separation between settler and Palestinian communities, constituting a breach of the Article 3 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The court further observed that the “effects of …

ICJ says Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal
5 months ago

ICJ says Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

The Independent  

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ICJ says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful
5 months ago

ICJ says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful

Al Jazeera  

International Court of Justice says Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territory amount to annexation. The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”. Israel’s “abuse of its status as the occupying power” renders its “presence in the occupied Palestinian territory …

Palestinians urge world to end Israel’s illegal occupation after ICJ ruling
5 months ago

Palestinians urge world to end Israel’s illegal occupation after ICJ ruling

Al Jazeera  

Activists say ICJ’s ruling will do little for Palestinians under occupation unless other states apply pressure to Israel to withdraw. The ICJ also ruled that Israel must stop all building of settlements in the West Bank and should compensate Palestinians for human rights violations in the occupied territory. The ICJ called on the UN – especially the Security Council and …

Palestinian space being single-mindedly squeezed: China Daily editorial
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Palestinian space being single-mindedly squeezed: China Daily editorial

China Daily  

Palestinians walk at the site of Israeli strikes that hit a residential building and destroyed shops at Gaza's Old City market, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City on July 4. With Israel's war in Gaza creating an ever-worsening humanitarian disaster and drawing ire and opposition from the world, the Jewish state's latest land appropriation in the occupied West Bank …

Settler violence: Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan for the West Bank
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Settler violence: Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan for the West Bank

Al Jazeera  

The Israeli state is actively encouraging settler violence against the Palestinians as part of its long-standing policy of displacement. On February 8, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds who were out grazing their herds in the Sadet a-Tha’leh community, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. While humanitarian and human rights organisations tend to register these violent acts as separate incidents, …

Palestine demands end to Israeli occupation at ICJ hearing
10 months ago

Palestine demands end to Israeli occupation at ICJ hearing

Al Jazeera  

Foreign Minister Riad Malki urges judges at the International Court of Justice to order an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. “Without accountability, there is no justice; and without justice, there can be no peace.” Palestine’s representatives, including Namira Negm, elaborated in detail how Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territories amount to apartheid. Amnesty International …

The way forward for Palestine: A call for international protection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

The way forward for Palestine: A call for international protection

Al Jazeera  

Only the end of the occupation can bring sustainable peace and stability to the region. In the wake of the landmark International Court of Justice ruling that Israel is plausibly engaged in a genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, all states that are party to the Genocide Convention now have a legal obligation to take material steps to put …

The Non-Aligned Movement calls Israel’s war in Gaza illegal and condemns attacks on Palestinians
11 months ago

The Non-Aligned Movement calls Israel’s war in Gaza illegal and condemns attacks on Palestinians

Associated Press  

KAMPALA, Uganda — Heads of states of the Non-Aligned Movement Saturday called Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip “illegal” and strongly condemned indiscriminate attacks against Palestinian civilians, civilian infrastructure and the forced displacement of the Palestinian population. While calling for a ceasefire desperately needed for humanitarian aid to access the Gaza Strip, the movement in a joint statement called …

How international law is used to cover up Israeli settler-colonialism
1 year ago

How international law is used to cover up Israeli settler-colonialism

Al Jazeera  

Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ is wrongly evoked within the context of its occupation of Palestinian territories. For example, Resolution 2787 of 1971 said that the General Assembly “confirms the legality of the people’s struggle for self-determination and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation, notably in southern Africa and in particular that of the peoples of Zimbabwe, Namibia, …

Opinion: Israel’s Palestinian strategy was a grave miscalculation
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: Israel’s Palestinian strategy was a grave miscalculation

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Hussein Ibish is a Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Hussein Ibish Courtesy of Hussein Ibish That’s because if Israel really wants to deliver a serious long-term blow to Hamas as a potent political movement among the Palestinian people, it’s going to be essential to seriously rethink its attitude towards the Islamist extremist …

Palestinian lives matter as much as any other human life
1 year, 1 month ago

Palestinian lives matter as much as any other human life

Al Jazeera  

We are living in a world of glaring double standards. A dangerous message has been sent by key policymakers in the international community that Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli ones and international humanitarian law can be applied selectively. There is also no mention of the right of the Palestinian people to defend themselves from such egregious violations of international …

Why are Palestinians supposed to take it – again and again?
1 year, 1 month ago

Why are Palestinians supposed to take it – again and again?

Al Jazeera  

The West is trying not only to stifle but to criminalise all Palestinian dissent. The Ivy-league-trained “ignorant bigot” and flailing US presidential candidate earned a burst of fleeting attention earlier this week when he banned a pro-Palestinian student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, from the state’s university campuses. To my knowledge, the governor’s sweeping cancellation of the SJP has …

Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’
1 year, 1 month ago

Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — “Stop the bombs and save lives!” the Palestinian ambassador pleaded at an emotional U.N. meeting Thursday on the war in Gaza. But Israel’s envoy was adamant, declaring again, “We will not rest until Hamas is obliterated.” The war sparked by Gaza’s Hamas rulers’ surprise attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 played out in the vast hall of …

Yes, Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands has to end — but massacres of civilians won’t bring this end any closer
1 year, 2 months ago

Yes, Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands has to end — but massacres of civilians won’t bring this end any closer

ABC  

Notwithstanding a brief period of hope in the mid-1990s, successive Israeli governments have long held that the country’s security must inevitably rely on military might. Palestinian despair After decades of oppression, the sense of hopelessness among Palestinians has reached a peak, aggravated by the realities on the ground: a continued illegal expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and …

‘Fantasy land’: How Biden’s normalisation drive ignored Palestinians
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Fantasy land’: How Biden’s normalisation drive ignored Palestinians

Al Jazeera  

Analysts say massive outbreak of violence shows that that region cannot move on without addressing the plight of Palestinians. Washington, DC – Addressing the world at the United Nations General Assembly last month, United States President Joe Biden spoke of a “more sustainable, integrated Middle East” – one where Israel enjoys “greater normalisation and economic connection”. Israel support Dan Shapiro, …

Israel-Palestine War: ’No justification for terrorism’, says US, UK and allies
1 year, 2 months ago

Israel-Palestine War: ’No justification for terrorism’, says US, UK and allies

Live Mint  

Several global leaders including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, US President Joe Biden, France President Macron, Chancellor Scholz of Germany, and Italy's PM Meloni on Tuesday issued a joint statement in support of Israel that has been attacked by the Hamas group, killing over 1,000 people so far. “Today, we — President Macron of France, Chancellor Scholz of Germany, Prime …

Palestinians are showing that they will not be erased
1 year, 2 months ago

Palestinians are showing that they will not be erased

Al Jazeera  

Palestinians have reminded the world of their existence, and determination to resist colonial oppression, in the only way that works. They aided and abetted Israel’s colonial oppression and basically encouraged it to intensify its efforts to expel Palestinians from their remaining lands and erase Palestine from history and global politics. As Israel intensified its efforts to erase Palestine and Palestinian …

Israeli protesters are calling for democracy. But what about the occupation of Palestinians?
1 year, 4 months ago

Israeli protesters are calling for democracy. But what about the occupation of Palestinians?

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israel is being rocked by a wave of mass protests calling for the country’s democracy to be upheld. Critics of the protest movement, including Palestinians, say this is a significant blind spot and that such selective advocacy of democratic ideals shows how disconnected Israelis are from the harsh reality of those living under Israel’s occupation. But largely missing …

‘The continuous Nakba’: Palestinians decry perpetual suffering
1 year, 7 months ago

‘The continuous Nakba’: Palestinians decry perpetual suffering

Al Jazeera  

Palestinians say the Nakba has manifested itself into an ongoing system of oppression that has made life ‘impossible’. The policies heavily affect Palestinians already fragmented by occupation, with some living as “second-class” citizens of Israel, some besieged in the blockaded Gaza Strip, and some subject to Israel’s annexations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Ashrawi added. ‘Guilty until …

For Palestine, justice is not a question of law
1 year, 10 months ago

For Palestine, justice is not a question of law

Al Jazeera  

These days much of the efforts to dismantle Israel’s apartheid and settler colonial systems of domination over the Palestinian people appear to be following a legal approach. Scholars, activists and even policymakers invested in the issue increasingly suggest the path towards Palestinian liberation is through securing a legal opinion officially defining Israel’s violent expulsion of Palestinians as apartheid and colonialism. …

Netanyahu says Israel not bound by 'despicable' U.N. vote
1 year, 11 months ago

Netanyahu says Israel not bound by 'despicable' U.N. vote

The Hindu  

Israel condemned and the Palestinians welcomed on Saturday a United Nations General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice to provide an opinion on legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Friday vote presents a challenge for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who this week took office at the head of a government which has set …

Israel ‘cannot be an occupier’ in its own land, Netanyahu counters after UN ruling
1 year, 11 months ago

Israel ‘cannot be an occupier’ in its own land, Netanyahu counters after UN ruling

The Telegraph  

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has insisted that Israel cannot be “occupiers” on their “own land” in response to the UN General Assembly’s decision to ask the International Court of Justice to examine the legality of the occupation of the Palestinian territories. In a statement on Saturday, Mr Netanyahu said that he would not be bound by whatever “despicable …

Israel-Palestine updates: Ceasefire in Gaza comes into force
2 years, 4 months ago

Israel-Palestine updates: Ceasefire in Gaza comes into force

Al Jazeera  

Husam Zomlot, Palestine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, has said Israel’s pre-emptive attack on Gaza is a “war crime” and that pro-Israel statements from countries like the US and UK were giving Tel Aviv the “green light” to continue its attack in the besieged coastal strip. “You base your entire bombardment of an entire city that is Gaza … that …

The Nazification of Israel
3 years, 7 months ago

The Nazification of Israel

The Hindu  

A DECISIVE shift that has been perceptible for some time seems now to be substantially in place in Israel, from settler-colonialism of the 0 kind to full-scale Nazification. For virtually the whole of its existence, Israel has modelled itself upon the South African racist regime of the apartheid days: a settler colony, calling itself a "Jewish state" and asserting a …

Israel’s doctrine: Humane bombing and benevolent occupation
3 years, 7 months ago

Israel’s doctrine: Humane bombing and benevolent occupation

Al Jazeera  

How Israelis moved from shooting and crying to shooting and laughing in Palestine. In fact, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden, “Israel is doing everything possible to avoid harming innocent civilians.” Indeed, Israel sends warning shots to Gaza residents so they can narrowly escape with their lives just before it destroys their livelihoods with bombs. As …

We, the Palestinians, are stuck in limbo
3 years, 10 months ago

We, the Palestinians, are stuck in limbo

Al Jazeera  

Israel’s political and diplomatic standing in the world is noticeably on the rise, and its illegal occupation is rapidly being normalised. Earlier this month, leading Israeli rights group, B’tselem, published an explosive report describing Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” government and stating that the lands between the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea …

Leading human rights group calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state
3 years, 11 months ago

Leading human rights group calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — A leading Israeli human rights group has begun describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” regime, using an explosive term that the country’s leaders and their supporters vehemently reject. In a report released Tuesday, B’Tselem says that while Palestinians live under different forms of Israeli control in the occupied West Bank, …

‘This is apartheid’: Rights group slams Israeli rule
3 years, 11 months ago

‘This is apartheid’: Rights group slams Israeli rule

Al Jazeera  

Israel executes laws, practices and state violence designed to cement supremacy of Jews over Palestinians, B’Tselem says. A leading Israeli human rights group has begun describing Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” government, using an explosive term that the country’s leaders and their supporters vehemently reject. In a report released on Tuesday, B’Tselem said …

Fighting for Palestine
4 years, 2 months ago

Fighting for Palestine

Al Jazeera  

In the last few years, Israel has further cemented its grip on Palestine. The list of Palestinian losses is depressing: the marked movement towards international recognition of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, official annexation of Palestinian land, an increase in the number of settlers and the development of settlements on Palestinian lands, the horrific besiegement of Gaza and …

If Israel’s planned annexation goes ahead, can any response make a difference?
4 years, 5 months ago

If Israel’s planned annexation goes ahead, can any response make a difference?

ABC  

Despite the delay in Israel’s planned annexation of as much as 30 per cent of the West Bank, the prospect of the further erosion of their rights and territories often feels to Palestinians like a side-note when compared to the horrors and hardships they face every day. Palestinians insist that Israel’s planed annexation is the logical conclusion to decades of …

Israel undeterred by international opposition to annexation
4 years, 5 months ago

Israel undeterred by international opposition to annexation

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to carry out his pledge to begin annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, possibly as soon as Wednesday. After Trump released his Mideast plan in January envisioning permanent Israeli control over 30% of the West Bank, including all of Israel’s settlements and the strategic Jordan Valley region, Netanyahu quickly jumped …

In 24 hours, Palestine faces an existential threat
4 years, 5 months ago

In 24 hours, Palestine faces an existential threat

The Hindu  

On June 24, the UN Secretary General António Guterres told a virtual meeting of the United Nations Security Council that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at a “watershed moment” and that the Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank have alarmed the Palestinians, many Israelis and the international community. According to Prof. Nathaniel A Berman of Brown University, U.S., …

UN rights experts condemn Israel’s annexation plan, US support
4 years, 6 months ago

UN rights experts condemn Israel’s annexation plan, US support

Al Jazeera  

UN experts say annexing 30 percent of occupied West Bank would leave behind nothing more than a ‘Palestinian Bantustan’. UN human rights experts said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the occupied West Bank would violate international law banning the taking of territory by force, and urged other countries to actively oppose it. A joint statement, …

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