If someone honestly believes that
Israel is doing nothing wrong to Palestinian population and Israel can continue
to massacre in Gaza and on Palestine under the pretext of “Israel has the right
to defend itself”, please check these out:
United Nation Special Rapporteur’s
report by Miss Francesca Al Banessa on Israeli occupation. “United Nations
Secretary General said yesterday the 7th of October did not happen in a vacuum
but in the context of 56 years of suffocating occupation Israel has imposed on
the Palestinian people this occupation is unlawful under international
law…building of colonies, confiscating land and brutalizing Palestinian
population is a war crime in and itself…this has become a tool of war exposing
the population to inescapable risks of death, these are also war crimes and
crimes against humanity because this is what international starvation is in
international humanitarian law. These crimes also have to be accounted for.
Nothing can justify the the deliberate toll inflicted on civilians both
Israelis and Palestinians”
https://youtu.be/N7NiPqSU2sk?si=ts9w0xtNyLLaZYwR
Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al-Jazeera
journalist
The investigation by the United
Nation’s “Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel” on the killing of
journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was published on September 5, 2023: “Israeli
forces used lethal force without justification under international human rights
law”
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N23/260/71/PDF/N2326071.pdf
Amnesty International’s labeled Israel
as Apartheid state
Amnesty International has declared
that “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and
a crime against humanity”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) calls it as war
crime
Israel-Hamas war: 'One war crime does
not justify another,' - Sari Bashi, Program Director at Human Rights Watch.
Geneva Convention calls collective
punishment a war crime
Article 33 - Individual
responsibility, collective penalties, pillage, reprisals. No protected person
may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed.
Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism
are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and
their property are prohibited.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/article-33
Legitimacy of the struggle for
independence from occupation
The resolution reaffirmed “the
legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity,
national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign
occupation by all available means, including armed struggle”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2017/7/20/palestinians-have-a-legal-right-to-armed-struggle
History of United Nation’s resolutions
and mandates
These are all the resolutions that the
United Nation have taken for Palestine and Israel. Israel has been constantly
violating the resolutions of Palestinian statehood:
- Palestine was among former
Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in
1922.
- All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, where in addition to “the rendering of administrative assistance and advice” the British Mandate incorporated the “Balfour Declaration” of 1917, expressing support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.
- During the Mandate, from 1922 to
1947, large-scale Jewish immigration, mainly from Eastern Europe took place,
the numbers swelling in the 1930s with the Nazi persecution.
- Arab demands for independence
and resistance to immigration led to a rebellion in 1937, followed by
continuing terrorism and violence from both sides.
- UK considered various formulas
to bring independence to a land ravaged by violence. In 1947, the UK turned the
Palestine problem over to the UN.
- After looking at alternatives,
the UN proposed terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into two
independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem
internationalized (Resolution 181
(II) of 1947).
- One of the two envisaged States
proclaimed its independence as Israel and in the 1948 war involving neighboring
Arab States expanded to 77 percent of the territory of mandate Palestine,
including the larger part of Jerusalem. Over half of the Palestinian Arab
population fled or were expelled.
- In 1974 the General Assembly
reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to
self-determination, national independence, sovereignty, and to return.
- In June 1982, Israel invaded
Lebanon with the declared intention to eliminate the PLO. A cease-fire was
arranged. PLO troops withdrew from Beirut and were transferred to neighboring
countries.
- Despite the guarantees of safety for
Palestine refugees left behind, a large-scale massacre took place in the Sabra
and Shatila camps.
- In 1987, a mass uprising
against the Israeli occupation began in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (the
intifada). Methods used by the Israeli forces resulted in mass injuries and
heavy loss of life among the civilian Palestinian population.
- A series of subsequent
negotiations culminated in the mutual recognition between the Government of
Israel and the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, and the
signing in 1993 of the Declaration of
Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP or
“Oslo Accord”), as well as the subsequent implementation agreements, which led
to the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces, the elections to the Palestinian
Council and the Presidency of the Palestinian Authority, the partial release of
prisoners and the establishment of a functioning administration in the areas
under Palestinian self-rule.
- West Bank separation wall,
located mostly within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ruled illegal by the
International Court of Justice. In 2002, the Security Council affirmed a
vision of two States, Israel and Palestine.
https://www.un.org/unispal/history/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54116567.amp
“ The report stated that between
October 7 and 26, 7,028 Palestinians were killed, including 2,913 children, and
blamed the deaths on Israeli military “aggression.” It said a further 281
bodies had not yet been identified.
The ministry said the actual number of
dead is likely to be much higher than stated in the
report. The list of 6,747 names gives the sex, age and identity card
number of each of the victims”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-report-intl/index.html
“The United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has been tracking deaths in the
conflict since 2008 and its data shows that
5,600 Palestinians died up to 2020 while 115,000 were injured. 250 Israelis
died during the same period while 5,600 were injured.”
I can’t change the opinions of people
who are blind but who can see and hear out, the above facts should open up
their mind and heart.
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