[News] Palestinian factions applaud Amnesty’s report about Israel’s apartheid

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Palestinian
factions applaud Amnesty’s report about Israel’s apartheid
February 2, 2022
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Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Several Palestinian factions, including Hamas and
the Palestinian Authority, have applauded on Tuesday Amnesty
International’s new report that says Israel’s actions against Palestinians
amount to the international definition of “apartheid”.

The Islamic resistance movement of Hamas praised the report, saying it
would contribute to exposing Israel’s practices against the Palestinians.

The movement “views with great appreciation and respect the efforts of
Amnesty International in issuing this professional report,” Hisham Qassem,
head of the “Hamas Media Department” said.

The report “puts the facts in perspective and describes the tragic reality
of our Palestinian people,” he added while condemning the Israeli campaign
against the report and urged all international human rights organizations
to continue in “exposing” Israel’s actions and policies.

The Islamic Jihad movement also said it “welcomes Amnesty’s report despite
the fact that the movement disagrees with Amnesty in using several terms..”
including the term “Jewish State.”

“The State of Palestine welcomes the report by Amnesty International on
Israel’s apartheid regime and racist policies and practices against the
Palestinian people,” the PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

“Amnesty International joins a long list of distinguished Palestinian,
Israeli and international human rights organizations and experts in
exposing Israel’s colonial occupation for what it is: an institutionalized
system of oppression and domination over the Palestinian people, designed
to legitimize its colonial settlement expansion, deny the Palestinian
people their inalienable right to self-determination, and erase Palestinian
history, present, and future in their homeland,” the statement read.

It described the report as “a detailed affirmation of the cruel reality of
entrenched racism, exclusion, oppression, colonialism, apartheid, and
attempted erasure that the Palestinian people have endured since the [1948]
nakba [catastrophe].”

The PA ministry also called on the prosecutor of the ICC to investigate
Israel’s “crime against humanity of apartheid without delay.”

The Palestinians will continue to “exercise their legitimate right to
oppose and resist all forms of occupation, colonization, dehumanization,
racism, and apartheid until they achieve justice and realize their rights
to self-determination, return, freedom, and independence,” it said.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also welcomed the
report, saying it is an “affirmation to the Israeli war crimes committed
against Palestinians and that ‘Israel’ is an apartheid state.”

Amnesty International said in a new report
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that Israel’ is carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians”
and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial
group”.

Released on Tuesday, the 278-page report by the leading rights group
details how Israeli occupation authorities enforce a system of oppression
and domination against the Palestinians.

The damning investigation sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land
and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement
restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians
are all components of a system “which amounts to apartheid under
international law.”

Amnesty said that this system is maintained by violations which the rights
group found to “constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity, as
defined in the Rome Statute and Apartheid Convention.”

Amnesty International has also called on the International Criminal Court
(ICC) to consider the “crime of apartheid in its current investigation in
the OPT” and called on all states to “exercise universal jurisdiction to
bring perpetrators of apartheid crimes to justice.”
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