A new episode in the Zionist criminal record

Since the creation of the Zionist entity in the heart of the Arab Homeland in 1948, the Israeli policy has been based on killing, assassination and committing atrocious massacres against the defenseless Palestinians to terrify them and perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories. The recent killing of the Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is a new episode in the Zionist criminal record.  The international calls on the occupation authorities to make investigations into the crime were met by deaf ears, because it was a pre-meditated crime committed in a cold blood against the Palestinian official who was peacefully demonstrating against Israeli racist policies. A top United Nations human rights official said the Tel Aviv regime must urgently probe the killing of a Palestinian minister in the occupied West Bank. He called on Israel to restrain the growing number of casualties it causes during Palestinian protests, because peaceful protest is a human right and the occupying forces must exercise appropriate restraint when policing protests in accordance with international law. Because of the well-established illegal nature of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, such protests will inevitably continue until Israel halt its racist settlement expansionist policies that run contrary to international conventions.

Abu Ein was killed in an anti-Israeli protest in the occupied West Bank village of Turmusiya, during which about 300 Palestinians had planned to plant olive trees as a symbolic act of protest against Israeli settlement policy which is based on confiscating more Palestinian lands to construct more settlement blocks with the aim of changing the demographic and geographic status of the Palestinian territories and perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories. The Palestinian official, who was in charge of the issue of Israeli settlements within the Palestinian Authority, was killed after Israeli soldiers hit him with the butts of their weapons and their helmets.

Tensions have been running high in the past few weeks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the desecration by Israeli troops against al-Aqsa Mosque. The brutal Israeli assault that led to the martyrdom of Abu Ein, is a barbaric act that cannot be tolerated or accepted. The international community should take serious action to curb the terrorist practices of the Israeli government. The international community should take a serious stand to terminate the Israeli terrorist acts which menace the security and stability of the region.

The new crime once again attests to the aggressive nature and the organized state terrorism governing the manner of the Israeli government. This manner has been quite evident in Israel’s continuous suppression of the Palestinian people and its close cooperation with the armed terrorist organizations in Syria. The crime is a continuation of the Zionist brutality which targets all the Palestinians without exceptions or discrimination.

Paying no heed to the International community’s vehement denunciation of the Israeli crime of assassinating the Palestinian minister, the Zionist authorities pressed ahead with their racist crimes. Israeli security forces have given demolition orders to the residents of homes and commercial stores in various parts of the occupied West Bank as part of the regime’s settlement expansion projects. Israeli troops invaded the neighborhoods of Silwan and Jabal al-Mukabir and handed demolition orders to a number of Palestinian families.

Israel should impose an immediate moratorium on its policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians. The decision to destroy more Palestinian homes comes as Tel Aviv continues with its illegal settlement expansion on the Palestinian land. Israel’s policy of coercive deportation is illegal in the first place, and is nothing but a consolidation of Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, especially in Jerusalem.  The Israeli move is part of a chain of daily Israeli criminal acts against Palestinians, which includes murder, torture, and terrorism.

Israel has tried over the past decades to change the geographic and demographic structure of Jerusalem by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.

K.Q.