[News] Palestinian Organizations welcome the UN Security Council's Resolution on Israel's continuing construction and expansion of settlements Palestinian
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PHROC and PNGO Welcome UN Security Council's Resolution No. 2334
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December 28, 2016
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and
Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) welcome the UN Security Council's
Resolution no. (2334) of 2016 on Israel's continuing construction and
expansion of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since
1967 and praises the position of Venezuela, Malaysia, Senegal and New
Zealand. These countries insisted on putting forward the draft
resolution before the Security Council for a vote, constituting actual
practice of their international responsibilities under the international
law and principles of justice.
There is no doubt that issuing this resolution comes at a time when
Israel intensifies its efforts in expanding its colonization project and
recently seeks legalizing the random settlement outposts and allowing
colonizers and Israeli forces to seize private Palestinian lands. This
expresses the international community's increasing concerns over
Israel's ongoing violations of international law and international
legitimacy.
This resolution added nothing to the previous international resolutions,
particularly Security Council's resolutions no. (237) of 1967; (446) of
1979 and (465) of 1980. However, issuing the 2334 resolution after two
decades of the intentional disregard for the confrontation of the
Israeli violations of the international legitimacy and inalienable
Palestinian human rights is considered a turning point in the
international political will and restores hope for the enforcement of
intentional law. Thus, we believe that the Security Council's
resolution no. (2334) constitutes the basis for activating various
international mechanisms, especially that powerful countries voted in
favor of the resolution while the USA abstained.
In view of the above, we stress the following:
1. (Israel's) denial, non-obedience, and challenge of the resolution
through taking illegal and oppressive measures in addition to attacking
the UN and countries solely and collectively should not depress the
intentional organizations, countries and civil society. (Israel's)
arrogance expresses the need for mobilizing official and unofficial
efforts and taking steps on the ground to confront the Israeli ongoing
violations. (Israel's) denial of this resolution does not exempt other
countries from fulfilling their obligations under the international law.
Thus, this resolution should be a trigger to apply the international
mechanisms that would ensure the enforcement of international will and law.
2. The resolution's current call for Israel to completely and
immediately stop its settlement activities and fulfill its legal
obligations towards the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem,
should not only be limited to decisions and statements. Moreover,
although this demand did not match what was mentioned in the Security
Council's Resolution no. (465), which called upon Israel to dismantle
the existing settlements, the issuance of Resolution No. (2334) with
vote of 14 in favor and the USA's abstention opens the door to the
possibility of developing the resolution into practical steps.
3. Building Israeli settlements in the occupied territory, including
East Jerusalem, is illegal. In addition, condemning the construction of
settlements and calling for stopping settlement activities result in
international legal responsibilities, including, but not limited to,
actual measures to be taken by countries solely or collectively in a way
that does not differentiate between the occupied territory and (Israel)
as mentioned in the last resolution. These measures should oblige those
countries to stop offering any form of assistance to (Israel) that would
invest that assistance in the settlement activities as stipulated in
resolution 465/1980;
4. The issuance of the UN resolution after two decades of negligence
against previous international resolutions, which have probably included
more sophisticated texts, under the pretext of giving a chance for Oslo
Peace Negotiations unveils the importance of enhancing the role of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian civil society
in following up the application of the resolution through encouraging
the countries to fulfill their obligations towards the resolution or to
not at least violate it. Therefore, the biggest achievement of this
resolution should not be its wording, but should remind of the
responsibilities to be fulfilled by the countries solely and
collectively and of reconsidering the strategy of condoning (Israel's)
violations under the pretext of not hindering the peace process. It
should be noted that commitment to the peaceful solution of the conflict
does not mean the non-application of international accountability
mechanisms that are considered a basic element of a just and lasting
peace process.
5. Until the resolution 2334 forms a basis for more international
effective position towards unambiguously recognizing our people's right
to liberation, independence and return and practicing pressure and
imposing sanctions on (Israel); we are required to promote the
Palestinian struggle against the occupation. Therefore, we call upon the
PLO to invest this accomplishment by calling the temporary PLO
leadership to comprehensively restructure the Palestinian situation to
create a unified national strategy, put an end to the catastrophic
division and restore the Palestinian cause as a national liberation
project, reform the PLO,including the national council,on democratic basis.
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