RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 23, 2020 (WAFA) – The Palestine National Council (PNC) called today upon all world parliaments, governments and to immediately intervene to prevent the implementation of the Israeli annexation and settlement plans that will prevent the establishment of the sovereign State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, on the 1967 borders.

"The Israeli decisions will have destructive consequences and catastrophic repercussions on the overall situation in the region," said the PNC in a press release.

Speaker of PNC, Saleem Al-Za‘noun sent identical letters today to the heads of Arab, Islamic, African, and Asian parliamentary s, the Arab Parliament, the European Parliament, the International Parliamentary Union, European and Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Associations, to highlight the dangerous situation in occupied Palestine. Al-Za‘noun also highlighted the increasing risks of annexation and settlements expansion expressed by the agreement of the new Israeli government parties coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, to annex parts of the occupied West Bank and impose Israeli sovereignty over it as of July 2020. The decision also comes along with the decision to confiscate lands in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron which belongs to the Islamic Waqf.

PNC said also that the Israeli occupation government continues to target Palestinian prisoners, sometimes with the deliberate medical negligence that leads to death, as what happened yesterday with the prisoner Nour Jaber (30 years old) in the Negev Prison, and other times with legislation that threatens Palestinian banks about dealing with the salaries of Palestinian prisoners as a prohibited action.

PNC affirmed that these decisions are daily interpreted into practical measures to annex the Jordan Valley, Northern Dead Sea and settlements, in accordance with what was stated in US President Trump‘s so-called "Deal of the Century".

PNC called on world parliaments to reject the annexation and colonial plans, and to take practical measures to ensure that Israel abides by the principles and rules of international law, which will undermine "the two-state solution and threaten security and stability in the Middle East".

"These plans and procedures constitute a blatant violation of international law in all its details, and the United Nations Charter and its resolutions related to the Palestinian issue, especially Security Council resolutions (2334, 440, 452, 465, 471, 476) that confirm the illegitimacy of the settlements, and constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and necessates bringing perpetrators to trial," said Za‘noun.

"In light of the foregoing, PNC ascertains that the continued Israeli violations, impunity and accountability, will entail the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the government of the State of Palestine to go ahead with implementing its decision to freeze all Palestinian political, security and economic obligations towards the Israeli occupation."

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