Israeli occupation will be fully responsible if situation explodes, says Shtayyeh

OCCUPIED AL_QUDS, (ST)- The Israeli occupation Authority will be fully responsible if the situation explodes in the occupied territories due to its policies in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) ,the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday.

“Our people who are defending their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, Jabal al-Mukabber and Silwan neighborhoods in occupied East Al-Quds (Jerusalem) are subjected to the worst policies and practices of persecution, discrimination, and ethnic cleansing with the aim of dislodging them from their homes to replace them by settlers,” said PM Shtayyeh at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah.

 “We warn the occupation government against continuing its policies and we hold it fully responsible if the situation explodes,” he said, stressing that “our people in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and everywhere will not capitulate to these policies, and will resist them with all force and determination.”

The Prime Minister said that the Israeli occupation’s government’s refusal to cooperate with the United Nations Human Rights Commission of Inquiry looking into crimes and violations committed against the Palestinian people and to prevent members of the commission from reaching Palestine “is condemned, and proves Israel’s behavior as above international law and above the right of people to be independent and to progress. The world is required to consider Israel an apartheid state and an outlaw.”

He called on the United Nations organizations to shoulder their responsibilities to protect the rights and property of Palestinians in Al-Quds( Jerusalem) and everywhere after the Israeli occupation’s government has passed a law to repeal the Absentee Property Law of 1950 as a prelude to passing legislation to seize Palestinian property since before 1948 and in East Al-Quds ( Jerusalem) in order to hand them over to Israeli occupation settlement organizations.

Raghda Sawas