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صوّت مجلس حقوق الإنسان، اليوم الخميس، على تشكيل لجنة تحقيق دولية مستقلة بشأن العدوان الإسرائيلي في الأراضي الفلسطينية، وضمان احترام القانون الدولي الإنساني والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان في الأراضي اللفلسطينية المحتلة، بما في ذلك “القدس الشرقية” وداخل “أراضي الـ48”.

وتم اعتماد القرار بعد أن صوتت لصالحه 24 دولة، وامتنعت 14 دولة عن التصويت، فيما عارضته 9 دول هي: أوروغوي، بريطانيا، جزر مارشال، مالاوي، ألمانيا، النمسا، بلغاريا، الكاميرون، والتشيك.

وعرض ممثل باكستان مشروع القرار، تحت عنوان “ضمان احترام القانون الدولي الإنساني والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة بما في ذلك القدس الشرقية وأراضي الـ48″،

وقال: “إن مشروع القرار يحدده سياق دورة العنف وطرد الفلسطينيين من أحياء في القدس الشرقية، وما شهده المسجد الأقصى المبارك في شهر رمضان المبارك، وهذا مرتبط بالاحتلال غير المشروع والعدوان وممارسة القمع والأنشطة غير المشروعة بما في ذلك سياسة الفصل العنصري التي تمارس في إطار الإفلات من العقوبة من قبل السلطات المحتلة”.

ويؤكد القرار حسب ما قاله ممثل باكستان، أنه لا بد من التصدي للإفلات من العقوبة وإخضاع كل المعتدين للمسائلة وضمان تطبيق القوانين الإنسانية الدولية والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان.

ويحدد الجزء الأول من الديباجة تطبيق القانون الدولي بما في ذلك القانون الإنساني والقوانين الدولية لحقوق الإنسان، ويحدد الالتزامات في إطار اتفاقية جنيف في وقت الحرب، وكذلك اتفاقات جنيف المطبقة على الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة بما في ذلك القدس الشرقية، فيما يتعلق بحماية المدنيين الواقعين تحت الاحتلال.

وينص القرار على إنشاء لجنة تحقيق دولية بولاية التحقيق في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة بما في ذلك “القدس الشرقية”، للتحقيق في كافة الانتهاكات للقانون الدولي الإنساني والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان، وتحديد الأسباب الكامنة وراء التوترات الراهنة وأسباب النزاع بما في ذلك التمييز والقمع على أساس الهوية الدينية والعرقية، والتقدم بتوصية لإنهاء الإفلات من العقوبة لمثل تلك الجرائم، وإنصاف الضحايا.

ويدعو القرار أيضًا، كافة الدول إلى الامتناع عن بيع الأسلحة التي قد تستخدم في انتهاك القانون الإنساني الدولي والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان.

ويدعو القرار لضمان الاحترام للقانون الدولي وتطوير هيكل يكفل إنهاء الإفلات من العقوبة للانتهاكات الصارخة لحقوق الإنسان على نطاق لا مثيل له في الآونة الأخيرة، كافة الأطراف للتعامل معه لجنة التحقيق وضمان وصولها إلى المناطق المشمولة بالتحقيق، بهدف حماية الأشخاص وضمان حقوقهم وكرامتهم.

Source: Quds Press International News Agency

Israeli settlers Wednesday morning attacked Palestinian shepherds and stormed their houses in Khirbet Zanuta village, southwest of Hebron city, according to local sources.

They confirmed that a group of settlers forced their way into the village, which forms a part of Adh-Dhahiriya town, physically assaulted shepherds and broke into houses in order to terrorize and expel them out of the area to seize their land for colonial settlement expansion.

No casualties were reported, however.

The village has been a target for Israeli forces and settler attacks, including discharging untreated wastewater into the villagers’ lands, demolishing the village school, leveling farmlands, halting construction of water wells, tearing down the villagers’ dwellings and sole clinic and restricting the villagers’ access to the village through shutting down the main road leading to it.

The village has a total population of some 150, comprising some 30 families, who depend on agriculture, livestock rearing and dairy production for their livelihoods.

Local farmers are the most affected by the Israeli occupation’s practices. Owing to its adjacency to the Green Line, the village has suffered considerably from occupation, particularly due to the construction of the segregation wall. About 200 dunums of village lands were confiscated during the Second Intifada.

The village is surrounded by Israeli colonial settlements of Shima and Tene to the west, and a bypass road runs through the center of the village from west to east. Approximately six kilometers of the apartheid wall have been constructed on the village land since 2004. Five cisterns have been destroyed due to the construction the wall.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli forces Wednesday morning stormed the headquarters of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas and fired tear gas bombs inside.

The Society said in a statement that the Israeli forces fired 29 gas grenades towards the building, causing a number of paramedics to suffocate due to inhaling the toxic gas and setting parts of the building’s vicinity ablaze.

It slammed the military raid as a form of “collective punishment against its paramedics for their heroic role in doing their jobs to save Palestinians.”
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli settlers today seized an old building to serve as in Arab Ar-Rashayida village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local official.

Mayor of Arab Ar-Rashayida, Fawz Rashayida, told WAFA that the a group of settlers took over a 400-square-meter old building, which previously served as base for Jordanian army before 1967, cleaning it, connecting it to the electrical and water supply networks, and installing lightings as well as beds inside.

He pointed out that this area, which is very close to the village, is vital and is deemed off-limits to the villagers and other Palestinians as the Israeli occupation authorities cite the designation of the area as a nature reserve as a pretext.

He warned that the settler move is intended to serve as a prelude to taking over hundreds of donums of Palestinian land and establish a new colonial settlement outpost.

The village has been a target for Israeli settler and forces attacks and harassments, including halting the rehabilitation of the road leading to it, seizing livestock, tents and vehicles belonging to the villagers, as well as imposing fines as a means to forcefully displace them and make room for the expansion of nearby Israeli colonial settlements.

Designating an area as a nature reserve may convey the impression that Israel wishes to protest the environment. In practice, however, Israeli has been using such designations for advancing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli police Wednesday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, according to an information center and witnesses.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that heavily-armed Israeli police violently cracked down on the participants in the rally against the forced dispossession of Palestinian families of their houses in Batn al-Hawa, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, beating them up and detaining a 16-year-old teen after hitting him on the face using rifle butts.

Police reinforced their deployments in the vicinity of the Israeli Central Court and set up metal barriers to prevent the participants from reaching the court building at the time of a hearing to review an appeal submitted by the families against their forced expulsions.

A similar rally was held on Tuesday evening, and involved dozens of Palestinians chanting slogans against their forced expulsions in a sit-in tent in the neighborhood amid a beefed-up police deployments.

Head of the Committee for the Defense of Batn al-Hawa, Zuheir al-Rajabi, said that 86 families, comprising some 1,750 members and living in 15 buildings, face the imminent risk of forced dispossession.

Elad settler group seeks to forcefully displace Palestinians from Jerusalem in line with the policy championed by successive Israeli governments to ethnically cleanse Jerusalemite Palestinians.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained at least six Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to security sources.

They confirmed that Israeli forces rounded up a father and his son after storming their family house in al-Balou‘ neighborhood of al-Bireh city.

The soldiers also kicked into the doors of several other houses, wreaked havoc inside and rounded up another from other neighborhoods of the city.

In the northern West Bank, Israeli soldiers detained a 16-year-old teen from al-Yamun town, west of Jenin city.

The sources confirmed a similar Israeli military raid in Bir al-Basha village, southwest of the city, resulting in the detention of another.

This came as soldiers manning al-Hamra checkpoint, north of Nablus, brutally assaulted a man after stopping him, inflicting cuts and bruises across his body.

The man, identified as a resident of Raba village, southeast of Jenin, was rushed to a hospital for urgent treatment.

In Tubas district, Director of the Palestine Prisoner’s Society Office, Kamal Bani-Odeh, confirmed that another Palestinian was detained in a raid in Tayaseer village, east of the city.

While in the village, Israeli troops opened fire towards the tires of a villager’s vehicle, slashing them.

Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Ireland’s government Tuesday supported a parliamentary motion condemning the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian lands by Israel in what it said was the first use of the phrase by a European Union government in relation to Israel.

Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, who has represented Ireland on the United Nations Security Council in debates on Israel in recent weeks, supported the motion and condemned what he described as Israel’s “manifestly unequal” treatment of the Palestinian people.

“The scale, pace and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground… It is de facto annexation,” Coveney told parliament.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are illegal under international law and are viewed as key obstacle to peace.

The number of settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993, when settlers’ number estimated 252,000. Illegal colonial settlements have leapt from 144 to 515 in that time.

Israel’s nation-state law states that building and strengthening the settlements is a “national interest.”
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

The Israeli authorities today forced a Palestinian citizen of Israel to demolish his own house in the Palestinian city of Tayibe in central Israel, according to a news website.

The Arabs 48 news website, which reports on Palestinians in present-day Israel, said that Nabil Amrour was forced to tear down his own house to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the Israeli Interior Ministry’s bulldozers accompanied by police special forces.

The demolition underscores that citizenship does not protect the 1.5 million Palestinians who are nominally citizens of Israel from the arbitrary and racially motivated state violence that routinely targets Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.

Since its founding, Israel has severely restricted the areas on which Palestinian citizens of Israel are allowed to build and has – with the exception of forced resettlement towns for Bedouins – not allowed a single new town for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA