Israeli Violations Severely Threaten the
Truce
The Palestinian National Initiative
11 April 2005
The truce between Israel and Palestine is in
imminent danger due to Israel’s unwillingness to adhere to their
side of the agreement. Contrary to their promises, the Israelis
have not released more prisoners or turned over more cities to
Palestinian Authority control. Israeli soldiers continue invading
and terrorizing Palestinian communities and shooting, injuring,
and killing Palestinians. The illegal settlements are still being
expanded, and the illegal Apartheid Wall is still being rapidly
built, an attempt to prejudice the outcome of a negotiated
solution. Jerusalem is being squeezed of its Arab character, the
most visible exemplification being the threats by Jewish
extremists to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The PNI, in an effort
to expose the Israeli violations and refute the Israeli narrative,
is publishing the following list of Israeli violations between 8
February and 10 April:
Israeli violations of the truce
between 8 February and 10 April, 2005:
|
Number of
Palestinians killed |
14
(including 7 children) |
|
Number of
shooting incidents |
458 |
|
Number of
Palestinians arrested |
403 |
|
Number of
invasions |
794 |
|
Flying
checkpoints |
557 |
|
Closures |
707 |
|
Settler
attacks |
92 |
In addition to this, the rate of uprooting,
bulldozing, and confiscation of thousands of dunams of
privately-own Palestinian lands has actually increased since the
truce began.
The Israeli government has also announced
plans to build around 9,500 new housing units for West Bank
settlements, 3,500 of which will be located in occupied East
Jerusalem and destroy the contiguity between the West Bank and
East Jerusalem and between the north and south of the West Bank.
Israelis have also continued to deny and diminish the Arab nature
of Jerusalem through illegal purchases of Arab and Christian
property in Jerusalem and the continuing threats of extremists
against the Haram al-Sharif.
These violations are extremely dangerous and
adversely affect the trust of Palestinian society in peaceful
solutions. Through summits and meetings, the Israeli government
is continuing to fool the world into thinking that it is
interested in peace and committed to the truce while it continues
to violate Palestinian rights and the truce agreement itself. It
is unreasonable to assume the Palestinians will sit idly by while
the possibility of a viable Palestinian state is destroyed in full
view of the world. A peaceful and just solution is desired by
all, but it will not be possible if Israel continues on its
current path and the international community does nothing.
The PNI has asked the Palestinian Authority
to expose Israel’s violations to the world and cease all false
negotiations with Israel as long as they are being used merely as
a cover to hide Israel’s aggression from the international
community.
The PNI also asks the Palestinian Authority
to call directly for an international peace conference with a
basis in UN resolutions and international legitimacy and to take
the ICJ decision against the Apartheid Wall to the General
Assembly of the UN. We cannot keep silent about what is happening
or revert to the cycle of reactions. We must take the political
initiative from Israel’s hands.
The Palestinian National Initiative
(al-Mubadara)
11/04/05
