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<h1 id="reader-title">PHROC and PNGO Welcome UN Security
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<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><span>December
28, 2016<br>
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<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><span>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.</span></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">In
view of the above, we stress
the following:</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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;</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">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. </p>
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