Palestinians in Talks With EU Over UN Statehood Resolution
Palestinian officials are holding intense negotiations with representatives from the European Union (EU) in a bid to reach an agreement over a UN resolution on Palestinian statehood.
Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said Sunday that the talks are underway with European countries – in particular France, Britain and Germany — over a Paris-spearheaded bid, which is to be presented to the UN Security Council.
Mansour said Palestinians are pushing for a resolution that will set a deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territories the regime occupied in 1967.
“You must understand the dynamics of the matter,” said Mansour. “We Palestinians talked about a move in the Security Council and presented the proposal [for a resolution] based on the end of the occupation within a set period of time and the recognition of the 1967 borders.”
The Palestinian national unity government has been pushing for a UN resolution that determines the borders of the future Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 lines. Israel has expressed outcries over the motion.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled out any negotiations with Israel over land, saying Palestinians won’t give up even an inch of their land.
In 1967, Israel occupied the West Bank, al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the Gaza Strip. However, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The Palestinians want the borders of the future state of Palestine to be based on the pre-1967 lines.
Palestinian center sheds light on rights violations by Zionist entity
On the other hand, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has released a new report shedding light on human rights violations by Zionist entity.
The center said the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its systematic attacks against Palestinians.
The findings of the rights group were based on Israeli assaults on Palestinians from December 4 to 10.
Israeli forces killed Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein and wounded over a dozen other people including seven children in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during that period.
The organization says the Israeli military conducted at least 64 incursions in the West Bank, and arrested 93 Palestinians including 13 children during the period.
The Palestinian center has called for more pressure on Israel and the prosecution of Israeli criminals.
In October, the UN Human Rights Committee slammed Israel for violating the rights of Palestinians and the maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
In a report on the Israeli regime’s human rights record, the committee expressed grief over Israel’s continued destruction of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank, censuring the ongoing “confiscation and expropriation of Palestinian land and restrictions on access of Palestinians” in the occupied territories including East al-Quds (Jerusalem(.
It also condemned reports on the use of torture by Israeli prison authorities in Israeli detention facilities.
Elsewhere it expressed concern over human rights abuses committed in the three wars Israel imposed on Gaza since late 2008, including the latest military aggression of summer 2014 that left nearly 2,200 Palestinians dead.
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