Zionist ideology has helped ethnic cleansing since before 1948 and this destructive work is still going on

Palestine National Council (PNC) calls on all world parliaments and unions to an urgent work with the governments of the countries of the world to prevent the implementation of the annexation and settlement plans that will prevent the establishment of the sovereign state of Palestine with its capital, the city of Jerusalem, on the 1967 borders. The Israeli decisions will have destructive consequences and catastrophic repercussions on the overall situation in the region.

 

Speaker of PNC, Mr. Saleem Al-Za’anoun sent identical messages today to the heads of Arab, Islamic, African, and Asian parliamentary unions, the Arab Parliament, the European Parliament, the International Parliamentary Union, European and Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Associations, to highlight the dangerous situation in the territories of the occupied Palestinian state, and the increasing risks of annexation and settlements expansion expressed by the agreement of the new Israeli government parties coalition headed by Netanyahu on 20th of April 2020, to annex parts of the Palestinian territories and impose Israeli sovereignty over it as of July 2020, along with the decision to confiscate lands in The Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron which belongs to the Islamic Waqf (ownership), with the aim of judaizing it..

PNC indicated also that the Israeli occupation government continues to target Palestinian prisoners, sometimes with the deliberate medical negligence that leads to death, as what happened today with the prisoner Nour Jaber (30 years old) in the Negev Prison, and other times with legislation that threatens Palestinian banks from dealing with the salaries of Palestinian prisoners as a prohibited action.

 

Za’anoun reaffirmed that “we are the original owners of the country, despite the displacement of more than 800,000 of our people from their homeland and prevent them from returning to it, and despite the crimes of ethnic cleansing, during which the Zionist gangs committed more than 70 massacres, and destroyed more than 531 villages and cities in full. However our people are determined to stay in their land. Knowing that, by the end of 2018, the total number of Palestinian people in the world reached 13.1 million, indicating that the number of Palestinians has increased more than nine times since the1948 Nakba. More than half of them (6.48 million) live in historic Palestine, and out of them (1.57 million) live in the territories occupied in 1948.”

 

He warned that “the coming danger lies in Zionist ideology, which has helped ethnic cleansing since before 1948, and its work is still alive and ongoing, and it seems that time is working on behalf of the Israeli supporters of the transfer of the Palestinians and the recurrence of the Nakba, the Palestinian Holocaust, whereby they foster their strength in Israel day after day. “

 

The letters concluded: “We, the Palestinian National Council, salute our people in the homeland and the Diaspora, who have demonstrated in the squares, parks and capitals of the world to express the commitment to their right to return to their homeland Palestine; a right that does not fall by aging, it’s an individual and collective right guaranteed by the resolutions of international legitimacy and international human rights instruments. PNC also paid tribute to our people in the homeland for their steadfastness in their land.”

 

Thousands of Palestinians participated today in marking the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, which coincides on May 15, the day in 1948 when Palestinians lost their homeland, Palestine, to current day Israel and became stateless and refugees dispersed around the world.

 

In the early morning hours, the residents of Humsa al-Fawqa village in the northern Jordan Valley carry few supplies as they leave their homes by foot after being ordered to evacuate their tent encampments to make room for Israeli military exercises.

 

This scene brings to mind the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, a term used to refer to the tragedy that befell the Palestinian people in 1948 whereby the Palestinian people lost their homeland when Israel was created on their land and in their homes after they were forcibly expelled or fled from their homes and became refugees.

Yasser Abu Kbash, a resident who left the area in the early morning hours, said he and his family members left their tent encampment and together with other residents to the open fields forced to stay under the blistering summer sun and heat. The Jordan Valley is one of the hottest areas in the region in the summer.

 

“When we left, we took only very little of the supplies leaving behind our livestock and land planted with wheat and barley,” he said, expressing concern that the community which relies on herding and farming for their livelihood would suffer considerable material losses as a result of the military exercises.

 

Elaborating on his losses two years ago, Abu Kbash points out that Israeli artillery shells hit his 70-dunum wheat fields, setting them ablaze. Besides, a large number of his cattle suffered from a deadly plague and perished after he could not tend to them.

 

Aref Daraghmeh, a local human rights activist, points out that the areas whose population is at the most risk of displacement as a result of military drills are al-Ras al-Ahmar, Humsa al-Fawqa, Wadi al-Maleh and Khirbet Ibzeiq. “Over 120 families have been subject to constant displacement over the past five years,” he said.

 

Source: Agency