PNC Addresses World's Parliaments on Illegal Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land

PNC Addresses World's Parliaments on Illegal Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land

PNC represents the supreme authority of the Palestinian people in all their places of residence.

The Palestine National Council (PNC) has called on all world parliaments and unions to urgently work with their representative governments in order to prevent the implementation of Israel’s annexation and settlement plans.

PNC said Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land will prevent the establishment of the sovereign state of Palestine on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.

“The Israeli decisions will have destructive consequences and catastrophic repercussions on the overall situation in the region,” PNC’s statement read.

Speaker of PNC, Saleem Al-Za’anoun sent a message to the heads of Arab, Islamic, African, and Asian parliamentary unions, the Arab Parliament, the European Parliament, the International Parliamentary Union, European and Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Associations, in order to underscore the dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The message warned of the increasing risks of annexation and settlement expansion stipulated by an agreement between Israeli parties coalition headed by Netanyahu on 20th of April 2020 to annex parts of the Palestinian territories and impose Israeli sovereignty over it as of July 2020, along with the decision to confiscate lands around the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron which belongs to the Islamic Waqf (endowment authorities).

PNC also said that that such decisions are daily interpreted into practical measures to annex the Palestinian valleys, Northern Dead Sea and illegal settlements, in accordance with what was stated in President Trump's plan known as the "Deal of the Century".

PNC called on world parliaments to reject the annexation and colonial plans and take practical measures to ensure that Israel abides by the principles and rules of international law and ceases policies that destroy the two-state solution and threaten security and stability in the Middle East.

“These plans and procedures constitute a blatant violation of international law in all its details, and the United Nations Charter and its resolutions related to the Palestinian issue, especially Security Council resolutions (2334, 440, 452, 465, 471, 476) that confirm the illegitimacy of the settlements, and constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and necessitates bringing perpetrators to trial”, PNC said in its statement.

“In light of the foregoing, PNC ascertains that the continued Israeli violations, impunity and accountability, will entail the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the government of the State of Palestine to go ahead with implementing its decision to freeze all Palestinian political, security and economic obligations towards the Israeli occupation and to continue the struggle until the independent state of Palestine with its capital Jerusalem is established, and the refugee issue is resolved in accordance with Resolution 194”, it added.

PNC represents the supreme authority of the Palestinian people in all their places of residence. It sets PLO policies and plans to achieve the goals of the Palestinian people for self-determination, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and the return of refugees to their homes.

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