Illegal Israeli actions in OPT/Settlements – Letter from Palestine

    Identical letters dated 18 June 2008 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

 

 

  Israel, the occupying Power, continues to perpetrate systematic human rights violations against the Palestinian people as the occupying forces continue to launch violent attacks, military raids and arrest campaigns in civilian areas throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. With the continuation of its military campaign, the casualties and destruction being endured by the Palestinian people, especially in the besieged Gaza Strip, continue to mount. Moreover, Israel’s military attacks continue to cause destruction to Palestinian property and infrastructure, in flagrant violation and grave breach of the relevant rules and provisions of international law.

  Despite all such violent and unlawful Israeli actions, the Palestinian leadership has continued to exert efforts to diplomatically address the prevailing crisis and to call for calm. As a result, with the support of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Egyptian Government, a ceasefire in Gaza has been agreed upon and will take effect early tomorrow morning, Thursday, 19 June 2008 (Palestine time). This ceasefire should be extended to the remaining parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. In the meantime, the agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza should lead to the opening of the crossing points in Gaza and bring an immediate end to all Israeli military attacks against the Gaza Strip along with an end to its suffocating and unlawful siege and collective punishment against the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, which has caused vast suffering, deepening poverty and a high incidence of disease and hardship.

  On another front, we wish to emphasize the urgency of translating the collective will of the international community concerning Israel’s continuing unlawful and intensifying pursuit of settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. In this regard, there must be immediate action taken to call on Israel, the occupying Power, to completely cease all of its illegal settlement activities, including any construction, expansion and planning of settlements and the construction of the wall, and to dismantle its outposts. It is crucial that the international community address this serious issue, especially given that since the Annapolis Conference seven months ago and despite its pledges and commitments to cease settlement activity, the Israeli Government has actually accelerated its settlement activity throughout the Occupied West Bank, including in Occupied East Jerusalem, further fragmenting the contiguity, integrity and unity of the Palestinian Territory and severely endangering the prospects for real izing the two-State solution. Indisputably, the issue of settlement building by Israel, the occupying Power, is the largest obstacle in the path of the peace process and is dangerously undermining the efforts being exerted by the parties and the international community to bring about peace in the region.

  In this regard, we reiterate our call for the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities and to condemn such unlawful Israeli actions and call for an immediate cessation of all settlement activity by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The Council must pronounce itself in a clear and forceful way to help salvage the peace process before Israel’s illegal settlement campaign effectively destroys the peace process in its entirety.

  The present letter is in follow-up to our previous 315 letters to you regarding the ongoing crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, since 28 September 2000. Those letters, dated from 29 September 2000 (A/55/432-S/2000/921) to 3 June 2008 (A/ES-10/419-S/2008/365), constitute a basic record of the crimes being committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people since September 2000. For all of these war crimes, State terrorism and systematic human rights violations committed against the Palestinian people, Israel, the occupying Power, must be held accountable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

  In follow-up to the above-mentioned letters, I regret to inform you that, since our letter to you dated 29 April 2008, at least 64 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupying forces, raising the total number of martyrs killed since September 2000 to 5,261 people. (The names of the martyrs that have been identified are included in the annex to the present letter.)

  I should be grateful if you would arrange to have the present letter and its annex distributed as a document of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 5, and of the Security Council.

 

 

(Signed) Riyad Mansour

Ambassador

Permanent Observer


    Annex to the identical letters dated 18 June 2008 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

  

    Names of martyrs killed by the Israeli occupying forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem * 

(from Friday, 2 May 2008, to Tuesday, 17 June 2008)

 

 

    Friday, 2 May 2008

 

1.  Usama Al-Houbi

 

    Sunday, 4 May 2008

 

2.  Hossam Al-Najjar

 

    Tuesday, 6 May 2008

 

3.  Hisham Shomar

 

    Wednesday, 7 May 2008

 

4.  Mahmoud Abu Moussalam 

  

    Friday, 9 May 2008

 

5.  Hamdi Shubair

6.   Sami Jameel Abu Anza

7.  Omar Daoud Moussa Al-Sir 

8.   Sameer Jameel Wafi

9.  Mohammad Abu Odeh

10.   Bassam Abu Shbaika

11.  Mohammad Abu Armana 

  

    Monday, 12 May 2008

 

12.  Mu’taz Abu Anza

 

    Tuesday, 13 May 2008

 

13.  Tahreer Abdel Ghafour 

  

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

 

14.  Mohammad Mounir Abu Habeeb

15.   Hamdi Abdel Majeed Kheder (17)

16.  Khedr Slama Kheder (17) 

17.   Ibrahim Hassan Salha (18)

18.  Bassem Mohsen Ashour 

19.   Mohammad Harara

20.  Ahmad Al-Malahi (18) 

    Thursday, 15 May 2008

 

21.  Maher Al-Najjar

 

    Monday, 19 May 2008

 

22.  Fahmi Al-Dardouk (16) 

  

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

 

23.  Majd Abu Okal (13) 

24.   Ali Al-Dahdouh

25.  Mohammad Khamees Odeh 

26.   Zayed Abu Wadi (12)

 

   Wednesday, 21 May 2008

  

27.   Mohammad Ahmad Al-Bahabsa

28.  Khaled Abdel Hadi

 

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

 

29.  Abdel Kareem Ramadan Ahl

30.   Mohammad Ibrahim Nasr

31.  Saleh Atwa Al-Bahabsa 

  

    Friday, 23 May 2008

 

32.  Ibrahim Madi

33.   Muhannad Abu Awwad

34.  Mohammad Abu Rizq

35.   Ra’ed Jamal Al-Naqa

36.  Hossam Abu Abda

 

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

 

37.  Usama al-Ghotti

38.   Abdel Razeq Abu Mu’ammar

 

   Thursday, 29 May 2008

  

39.   Ahmad Al-Ammour

 

   Friday, 30 May 2008 

  

40.   Yousra Abu Rouq

 

   Monday, 2 June 2008 

  

41.   Sari Abu Samra

 

   Thursday, 5 June 2008

  

42.   Aya Al-Najjar (4)

 

   Friday, 6 June 2008 

  

43.   Khalil Sokkar

 

   Saturday, 7 June 2008

  

44.   Bilal Al-Sharbasi

 

   Tuesday, 10 June 2008

  

45.  Mohammad Dolat

46.  Khaled Zaki Zuhd

47.   Ahmad Al-Safadi

48.  Yehya Hameed

49.   Mostafa Attallah

 

   Wednesday, 11 June 2008

  

50.   Yasser Abu Haleeb

51.   Hadeel Abdel Kareem Al-Somairi (9)

52.  Ibrahim Mahmoud Sa’ad 

53.   Hassan Asaliyya

 

   Friday, 13 June 2008

  

54.   Mostafa Al-Batsh

55.  Moussa Hammouda

56.  Mahmoud Hadar

  

   Monday, 16 June 2008

 

57.  Mu’taz Tafesh

58.   Alaa’ Al-Boraim

59.  Mahmoud Abu Shab

 

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

 

60.  Mohammad Al-Shindi 

61.   Mu’taz Daghmash

62.  Ezz Al-Mozazi

63.   Mahmoud Asaliyya

64.  Moussa Al-Modaini (10) 

*   The total number of Palestinian martyrs killed by the Israeli occupying forces since 28 September 2000 is 5,261.

  

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