The Israeli government has refused to allow the Israeli presence in Hebron to continue its work and not to renew its presence.
"This decision is unilateral and calls for serious action by the sponsors of the international agreement signed after the UN Security Council resolution to provide international protection to the Palestinian people in 1994 after the terrible massacre perpetrated by the criminal Goldstein and shedding the blood of the worshipers as they perform, Fajr prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the month of Ramadan.
He stressed that the occupation government, through this step, insists on continuing to implement its aggressive plans against our people and its leadership and against our sanctities and our land. He stressed that preventing the occupation of the International Presence Mission from work in Hebron is a continuation of the renunciation of signed agreements and international agreements. And tension rather than peace and stability
The mission was deployed in Hebron under an Israeli-Palestinian agreement reached after the February 1994 massacre when an Israeli settler killed 29 Palestinians who were praying inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he would not extend the mission after accusing it of bias.
The Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Saeb Erekat, said that States should stand against this decision. He added that "the International Presence Mission has observed during the years of its work 40 thousand crimes against citizens in Hebron, especially in areas such as the old town, Tel Rumeida, Tariq bin Ziad, Jabal Jouhar, which is subjected daily to the attacks of occupation."
"Our people need genuine international protection against what the Netanyahu government is planning in its election campaign by giving settlers the green light to continue with war crimes, field executions, uprooting trees, confiscating land, demolishing houses and siege, and settlement activities," he said.
European countries participating in the mission also opposed the Israeli decision. "Unfortunately, we have learned this decision, but we are continuing our efforts," Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Maviro Milanese said.
"Sweden and other countries participating in the mission deeply regret the Israeli statements ... We believe that the mission is an important task that must continue," a foreign ministry spokesman said.
The Norwegian-led mission includes 64 observers from Norway, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland and Turkey, whose mission is renewed every six months.
The mission of the Civilian Observer Mission is to monitor abuses committed by settlers or Palestinians, whose elements are not entitled to intervene directly when incidents occur.
The Mission reports to its Member States, as well as to the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Hebron is the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank, home to about 600 settlers, protected by thousands of Israeli soldiers among some 200,000 Palestinians.
