Settler violence by Israel:
PA writes to UN
UN: Palestinian delegate to the UN Riyad Mansour wrote a
letter to the Security Council Friday, calling for “urgent attention and
serious action” to curb settler violence against Palestinians in the
West Bank, the Ma’an news agency reported.
In the letter, which was the 383rd such document submitted to the UN
since 2000 over issues of occupation-related rights violations, Mansour
said that the Security Council should consider the details of recent
deadly settler attacks against Palestinians.
Mansour’s letter outlined the deaths of two Palestinian teens
Thursday and Friday and several other violent incidents as “brutal
actions committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians and
their properties.”
The letter complained about “settler terror, harassment and
destruction unabated, on a daily basis, without fear of punishment or
being brought to justice for their crimes against the Palestinian
people.”
It also blamed Israeli forces occupying the area and guarding Tel
Aviv’s illegal settlements of “actually enabling their crimes through
the military and financial assistance and protection accorded to them
[settlers].”
The PA delegate also criticized Israel’s unrelenting settlement
construction on occupied Palestinian land, saying it posed “an
existential threat to the two-state solution” and violated UN
resolutions and previous accords between the Palestinian Authority and
Israel.
The letter highlighted the deteriorating situation in regard to the
settlements, noting that Israel’s approval of the construction of
thousands of new settler units in the West Bank amounts to a “blatant,
relentless colonization of the Palestinian land… in a deliberate and
grave breach of the relevant provisions of the Fourth Geneva
Convention.”
In addition, Arab nations have submitted a draft resolution to the UN
seeking condemnation of Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied
West Bank. Sunday,Xinhua |