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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR: "Trump's Middle East Plan
Violates Rights and Legitimizes War Crimes"</h1>
January 30, 2020</div>
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<div id="post-111041"><a
href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14132" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>The Palestinian
Center For Human Rights (PCHR)</strong></em></a>: While
the Oslo Accords sacrificed human rights and the
international law for more than a quarter of a century,
the U.S president Donald Trump’s Middle East plan
constitutes a full destruction of international law, and
legitimizes more than 50 years of Israeli violations of
international humanitarian law (IHL) in the occupied
Palestinian territory (oPt) since 1967, that amount to war
crimes and crimes against humanity. Rather than referring
to the principles of international law and the United
Nations (UN) resolutions, including UN Security Council
resolutions endorsed by the U.S., the current U. S
Administration flouts these principles and promotes the
logic of force over truth and rewards Israel for its
crimes.
<p>Under the so-called peace process, Israel continued to
take chunks of the oPt and create irreversible facts on
the ground, including tripling its settlement expansion
schemes; creating a Jewish majority in occupied East
Jerusalem, isolating and forcing its local Palestinian
population out of the city; constructing the annexation
wall; imposing a closure on the Gaza Strip; severing the
cities, villages and refugee camps of the West Bank
apart by settlements, settler bypass roads and hundreds
of military checkpoints.</p>
<p>In short, the Israeli military occupation managed to
change the features of the oPt, seized its resources and
deprived Palestinians from their inalienable rights in
favor of Israeli settlers.</p>
<p>Israel created a new version of apartheid in which
settlers enjoy privileges at the expense of the
indigenous population who are besieged and separated in
Bantustans, stripped of their rights guaranteed by
international law and oppressed by the means of law and
brute force that are enforced by its occupation forces
and military rule.</p>
<p>Trump’s plan legitimizes all the above in the name of
peace, and upholds Israel’s control over the oPt, yet
exempts it from its responsibility towards the
population. Under Trump’s scheme, Palestinians would
have a mirage of a state that has limited autonomy and
lacks geographical integrity or sovereignty over its
lands and resources.</p>
<p>We firmly reject Trump’s plan, which legitimizes
Israeli crimes and deprives Palestinians of their legal
and political rights, and sets foundation for a new type
of apartheid.</p>
<p>We believe that the only way to reach a just and
lasting peace is through respecting international law,
including IHL and the international human rights law,
protecting the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights,
including their right to self-determination, and ending
the Israeli military occupation.</p>
<p>Therefore, we call upon the international community to
stand for and protect rule of law and support
international accountability mechanisms, including the
International Criminal Court.</p>
<p>The international community should take firm action
against Israel’s plans, supported by the U.S
Administration as evident in Trump’s proposed peace
plan, to annex the Northern Jordan Valleys and other
parts of the West Bank</p>
<p>Public Document<br>
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For more information, please call PCHR office in Gaza,
Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 – 2825893<br>
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Al-Roya Building- Floor 12 , El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza,
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