The grouping of human rights organizations in Palestine (Freedom) stressed the illegitimacy of annexation and settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, and its categorical violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, public international law, and the provisions and decisions of the international community.
The assembly called in a press statement today, Tuesday, the International Security Council to study the practical ways and means in accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the United Nations Charter, to compel the occupation to comply with the decisions of the council, and ensure their implementation, in order to preserve the credibility of the international system, stressing the violation of the Israeli annexation and settlement activities, peremptory, The provisions of international humanitarian law, international human rights law and general international law, as well as all the provisions and decisions of the international community.
The assembly also emphasized that settlement represents one of the most important and clear aspects of the occupation in standing against the aspirations of the Palestinian people in determining their fate and obtaining their freedom and independence, and that international covenants considered settlement in the occupied territories a war crime that is punishable by plans, instigations, orders, or carried out this crime, calling on the union European Union to stop all forms of cooperation with the occupation, as a sponsor of terrorism, and to suspend the commercial partnership agreement with it for violating the second clause thereof, which stipulates that human rights must be respected.
The gathering of human rights organizations (freedom) pointed to the seriousness of the settlement crime, as it represents several complex and overlapping violations, starting with the confiscation of lands by military force, the deportation of its indigenous population, and then extensive demolitions and destruction of property, until the citizens and citizens of the occupying state replace the original Palestinian population, consuming their resources and capabilities Stressing that the American administration’s role in facilitating and supporting Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories or obstructing its condemnation and attempting to legalize it makes it a partner in these crimes and violations.
The assembly stressed that the Israeli occupation authorities, since the beginning of their occupation of the Palestinian territories, adopted a racist policy based on annexation and displacement, and put in place illegal colonial settlement schemes, initiated by the Alon settlement plan in 1967 that represented the general framework of the Israeli colonial policy and settlement project in the occupied Palestinian territories And then, the 1978 "Druples" plan that was based on settling and seizing areas between the indigenous (Palestinian) communities in the West Bank, was aimed at reducing the possibility of the emergence of an Arab state to a minimum.
International rules prohibit the occupation authorities from transferring their residents and resettling them in the occupied territories, whatever the reasons and justifications, as confirmed by Articles (33), (49), (53) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the agreement considered it in Article (147) of the gross violations that require prosecution. And punishing the perpetrators as war crimes. With the first additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions confirmed in Article (85/4 / A) that "the occupation state´s transfer of some of its civilian population to the lands it occupies or the transfer or transfer of all or some of the residents of the occupied territories within or outside those lands, in violation of Article 49" Of the Fourth Geneva Convention. " This was confirmed by the International Court of Justice in its fatwa in 2004.
