The American Peace Council and the Unity of Land and Institutions

The continuation of the occupation's crimes, along with the approval of the American Peace Council and the formation of a committee to manage the Gaza Strip, constitutes a provocative behavior that reflects a mentality of arrogance and disregard for international law and human values. It amounts to a full-fledged crime against humanity for which the occupation authorities bear full responsibility. The brutal practices and inhumane detention conditions faced by prisoners represent a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions and all relevant international charters.
What the ministers of the occupation government, led by the extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, are doing is unleashing their hatred and vengeful ideology against the prisoners within a systematic policy based on gloating and revenge. He bears direct responsibility for the execution and killing of dozens of prisoners inside prisons, whether through torture and causing death or through imposing deadly detention conditions. The continued international silence regarding these crimes is considered an insult to international law, international resolutions, and human rights, and undermines the credibility of international institutions concerned with protecting human rights.
The continuous incursions by the occupation army and settler gangs into the cities, villages, towns, and camps of the West Bank, and the commission of successive crimes, the transfer of crimes from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, the rebuilding of a number of settlements that were previously removed by previous agreements, as is the case in the town of Sanur south of Jenin city, and the expansion of existing settlements through the construction of thousands of new settlement units, cannot continue and must stop. The national constants and goals that the Palestinian people believe in remain the compass for determining the national position in order to embody the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions.
 The United Nations and its specialized bodies, and international human rights and humanitarian organizations must take practical steps to punish the occupation and stop the continuous violations against Palestinian prisoners. Work must be done to organize broad solidarity campaigns at the Palestinian, Arab, and international levels to re-highlight the issue of prisoners, and the necessity for the International Committee of the Red Cross to play its full legal and humanitarian role and intervene urgently to ensure the protection of prisoners and stop the crimes committed against them inside the repressive occupation prisons.
 These political and humanitarian developments in the occupied Palestinian territories have cast their shadow over the region in general in light of the announcement of the Peace Council and its executive committee, in addition to the technocrat committee, in implementation of US President Donald Trump's plan, and Security Council Resolution 2803, and the importance of moving forward with political efforts aimed at achieving stability, and ensuring the return of the Palestinian Authority to assume its full responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, and the necessity of initiating a comprehensive national dialogue based on the consensus of all around the Palestine Liberation Organization as the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people, and that the Palestinian National Authority must continue to provide its health, educational, administrative, and other services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
 The West Bank, including Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state, and the Gaza Strip will remain a single unit in embodying the independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories occupied since June 4, 1967, within the framework of one political system, one law, and one weapon. Work must be done to establish political and legal links between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip within the framework of the unity of land and institutions, and the necessity of working to ensure that war does not resume, and to accelerate the entry of urgent humanitarian aid to relieve our people, in addition to supporting reconstruction efforts and the necessity of stopping settler attacks in the West Bank, and that the continuation of these violations undermines opportunities for stability and violates international laws and legitimacy.