The Occupation Government and its Open Rebellion Against International Resolutions

The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip has risen to 71,660 and injuries to 171,419 since the start of the aggression, while the occupation continues its organized aggression carried out by settlers on the Bedouin community of Khillet al-Sidra near the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, destroying homes and barns, accompanied by the occupation army, and assaulting residents and foreign solidarity activists, injuring several of them, then declaring the area a closed military zone for one year with the aim of forced expulsion and preventing the presence of any Palestinians. Meanwhile, occupation bulldozers demolished shops and commercial establishments around Qalandia refugee camp, and occupation forces escalated their attacks during the past months on the Minya wilderness south of Bethlehem. These attacks included demolishing tents and agricultural rooms, assaulting shepherds, and stealing many sheep.
 
These repressive practices adopted by the occupation government constitute a blatant example of state terrorism and settler gangs, and a policy of ethnic and spatial cleansing and illegal land seizure. The declaration of military zones and giving free rein to settlers to use force and terrorism does not change the legal status of the occupied land. These practices and violations are considered war crimes according to international court resolutions and necessitate international accountability and prosecution.
 
What the occupation is doing in various governorates of the West Bank, through harassment, intimidation, seizure, demolition, repeated assaults, and imposing new colonial outposts with a fait accompli policy, and that silence on the displacement of residents of Palestinian communities and villages means opening the door to uprooting other communities and Judaizing Palestinian land, and that the plan does not stop at the borders of these communities but targets the entire Palestinian presence in the Jordan Valley and the entire West Bank.
 
The international community must reconsider its policies and assume its legal and moral responsibilities and take deterrent measures against the occupation, and work to stop its colonial ambitions and respect international resolutions. In light of the latest developments in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, efforts must continue to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, deliver humanitarian aid, alleviate the suffering of our people, rebuild, prevent displacement and annexation, stop settlement expansion and settler terrorism, stop measures to undermine the institutions of the Palestinian National Authority, and work to consider the Gaza Strip an integral part of the State of Palestine, and the importance of the Palestinian Authority playing its central role in managing the Strip, and the importance of linking the Authority's institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, and not creating administrative, legal, and security systems that perpetuate duality and division.

The timid and weak stances of the international community and the continuous silence of the world, which encouraged the extremist occupation government to persist and openly rebel against international laws and resolutions, and disregard all legal and moral obligations towards the Palestinian people, cannot continue. This has led to organized chaos and the closure of any political horizon or hope for the establishment of a Palestinian state. The absence of accountability constitutes complicity in the crime, perpetuates the policy of impunity, and deepens the suffering of our people and deprives them of their legitimate right to self-determination and to live freely and with dignity on their land and build their independent state.
 
The UN Security Council must assume its responsibilities under international law, hold the occupation authorities accountable for repressive practices that violate international law, and ensure the continuation of international efforts to confront Israeli arrogance and implement resolutions of international legitimacy, and the necessity of practical steps by the international community and the United Nations to provide international protection for the Palestinian people and confront the occupation government that refuses to recognize international legitimacy and international law as the basis for resolving the Palestinian issue.