[News] Palestinian organizations set 10 conditions for 10-year truce with Israel

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Palestinian factions reportedly set 10 conditions for 10-year truce
  with Israel

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 07/16/2014 - 13:29
*http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel*

Reports in Israeli and Palestinian media say that the two Palestinian 
resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have set forth ten conditions 
for a ceasefire and ten-year truce with Israel.

Israel's /Maariv/ said 
<http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/597/047.html?hp=1&cat=666&loc=2> 
that an unnamed "senior Palestinian official" passed it a copy of the 
demands, which have been transmitted by the factions to Egypt.

They include an end to all armed hostilities, the end of the siege of 
Gaza, and the construction of internationally supervised air and seaports.

While Hamas has not as yet officially stated these demands, they are in 
line with the group's long-standing policy of offering Israel a 
multi-year truce.

The reported conditions come after nine days of Israeli bombardment 
<http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_16_07_2014.pdf> of the 
Gaza Strip that has killed more than 200 people, injured close 
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#> 
to 1,400, and destroyed the homes of 8,200 others. Almost 80 percent of 
the dead, who include more than thirty children, are civilians, 
according to the UN 
<http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_16_07_2014.pdf>.

Yesterday, Hamas refused to respond to a unilateral "ceasefire" declared 
by Israel that would have left the situation of siege on the Gaza Strip 
unchanged 
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/hamas-did-not-reject-ceasefire-israel-did>.


    Airport, seaport and an end to violence

The ten conditions were translated by The Electronic Intifada from an 
Arabic version published by Ma'an News Agency 
<http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713512>:

 1.

    Mutual cessation of the war and withdrawal of tanks to previous
    locations
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    and the return of farmers to work their land in the agricultural
    border areas.

 2.

    Release of all the Palestinians detained since 23 June 2014 and
    improvement of the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, especially
    the prisoners from Jerusalem, Gaza and Palestinians of the interior
    [present-day Israel].

 3.

    Total lifting of the siege of Gaza and opening the border crossings
    to goods and people and allowing in all food and industrial supplies
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    and construction of a power plant sufficient to supply all of Gaza.

 4.

    Construction of an international seaport and an international
    airport supervised by the UN and non-biased countries.

 5.

    Expansion of the maritime fishing zone to 10 kms and supplying
    fishermen with larger fishing and cargo vessels.

 6.

    Converting the Rafah crossing into an international crossing under
    supervision of the UN and Arab and friendly countries.

 7.

    Signing a 10-year truce agreement and deployment of international
    monitors to the borders.

 8.

    A commitment by the occupation government not to violate Palestinian
    airspace and easing of conditions for worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

 9.

    The occupation will not interfere in the affairs of the Palestinian
    government and will not hinder national reconciliation.

10.

    Restoration of the border industrial areas and their protection and
    development.


    "Should have been met years ago"

Dr. Ramy Abdu, chair of the independent group Euro-Mid Observer for 
Human Rights <http://electronicintifada.net/tags/euro-mid> (euromid.org 
<http://www.euromid.org/en>, told The Electronic Intifada from Gaza City 
this morning:

    I believe that these requirements should have been met years ago.
    The core of these requirements are not political but purely
    humanitarian and legally binding. The international community has
    called many times for their implementation. Palestinians have the
    right to move in and out freely like others in the world. They have
    the right to import and export, to control their borders and
    airspace. Israel argues
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    that it left Gaza, so it should stop controlling the lives of
    Palestinians.

Abdu noted that his organization recently published a detailed proposal 
<http://euromid.org/en/article/517/Working-Paper:-Gaza-Seaport--A-Windowpane-to-the-World> 
to establish a maritime link from Gaza to the rest of the world with an 
international role that could "alleviate security concerns 
<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#>."

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