News, statements, etc on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People…
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News: On the occasion of the Day of Solidarity, Palestinians call for the application of international law |
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(29-11-06) – Najib Farag, PNN. On the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People a collective call is being issued by all Palestinian factions. The request is simple, yet somehow unattainable as of yet: apply international law, including the Fourth Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in particular, United Nations resolutions. The Palestinian Liberation Movement, Fateh, said that if the UN simply applied the resolutions already on the books, regardless of those that did not make it due to the United States veto, the injustice would be rectified. |
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News: UN marks Palestinian Solidarity Day with calls for peace with Israel |
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(29-11-06) – Najib Farag, UN News. The United Nations today marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people with urgent calls for re-launching the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, special meetings of the General Assembly and related committees and film shows and exhibitions. “Let us commit ourselves to breathing new life into the peace process so that the goals of statehood for Palestinians, and security for the State of Israel, can be realized before this tragedy takes too many more lives,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message for the Day. |
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News: PFLP calls for “practical solidarity” with the Palestinian people |
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(29-11-06) – Report, Ma’an. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has on Wednesday issued a statement calling upon all free people of the world to support the Palestinian people, and to help lift the siege imposed on them. In a statement received by Ma’an, the PFLP thanked every person who expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, despite “the hardships of the American era”. They stressed the necessity for “practical, perceptible, action” to accompany the “abstract solidarity”. |
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News: Palestinian People’s Party – Palestinian unity cannot be substituted |
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(29-11-06) – Report, Ma’an. The Palestinian People’s Party has, on Wednesday, stressed the necessity for Palestinians to take the political initiative and submit it to the domestic, Arab, regional and international levels. They declared that there is no alternative to Palestinian agreement on all issues, especially the formation of a unity government and the reactivation and reform of the PLO. |
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Statement: BADIL centre for Palestinian refugees urges recognition of the roots of the Palestinian ‘problem’ on international day |
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(29-11-06) – Report, Ma’an. The international community of states has failed the Palestinian people, but global civil society has not. In light of ongoing occupation, colonization, displacement and dispossession under Israel’s Apartheid-regime over the Palestinian people, 29 November 2006 can become a day of solidarity and awareness of the collective strength of global civil society organizations working for freedom and justice in Palestine. |
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Statement: Palestinian university teachers mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
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(29-11-06) – Report, Ma’an. Ever since 1948 Israel has been exercising a policy of ethnic cleansing, massacres, sieges, collective punishment, building settlements and apartheid walls, expropriating more lands and waging genocidal wars against the armless refugees of Palestine. In the last four months alone, Israel has committed a series of massacres in which whole families were eliminated in cold blood. More than 450 Palestinians, mostly children and women, were killed and 4500 injured. |
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Statement: On International Day of Solidarity – Occupation is the issue |
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(09-11-06) – Statement, Al-Haq. On 29 November 2006, the international community observes the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. As a Palestinian organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Al-Haq takes this opportunity to emphasise that the root cause of the pervasive violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the OPT is the almost 40-year-old Israeli occupation. Both Israel and the international community have repeatedly failed to meet their international legal obligations with regard to the OPT. Consequently, the full realisation of the fundamental rights of Palestinians, including the right to self-determination, remains as distant as ever. |
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