Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territory have skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier today, Mondoweiss’ Palestine correspondent Yumna Patel spoke with representatives of rights groups Al-Haq and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel about how the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory continue to be violated on a daily basis.
Soheir Asaad is International Advocacy coordinator in Adalah – The legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. She started work at Adalah in 2012 as an intern and returned in 2017 as legal researcher and The Nakba and the Law project coordinator. She is a lawyer and has a Masters degree in Law (LL.M.) with honors from the Center for Civil & Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame (US), with a focus on international human rights law. Soheir also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B.) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Soheir is also a Palestinian political and feminist activist.
Suha Jarrar is a human rights and feminist advocate, and a researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq human rights organization based in Ramallah, Palestine. Suha obtained her Bachelor or Arts degree in Environmental and Gender Studies from Trent University in Canada, and her Master of Science Degree in Climate Change Science and Policy from the University of Sussex in the UK. Her research interests are in the fields of human rights, environmental and climate justice, and gender, within the context of occupation and colonization.
Learn More:
Al-Haq: http://www.alhaq.org
Adalah: https://www.adalah.org/en/
Baseless claims. Arab citizens of Israel are treated similarly to Jewish citizens.
Citizens of the PA and Gaza are receiving the treatment that both Arab governments can give to their citizens. The fact that both entities, PA and Gaza, are quite poor in medical facilities and abilities is because they put their budget on other priorities. It’s their own problem. Yet Israel is helping both of them, by giving both some products she can and instructing their doctors and nurses.
Israel acts against terror organizers in the PA, exactly Oslo Accord agreement let them do so. In any case, Israel has the right to defend herself against any terrorist activity, with or without an agreement. Protecting your citizens’ lives is an obligatory, natural, primary, and fundamental right.
The situation in Judea and Samaria today is a status quo that cannot progress to a full solution, due to Abu Mazen’s refusal to decide on a final peace plan, after which there will be no more claims from Israel. And as long as the Palestinians cannot exercise their “right of return” – pushing into Israel about 5 million “48 Arabs”, there will be no peace, as they say. And this, of course, Israel cannot accept – 48 borders means for Israel that anyone who thinks himself a Palestinian Arab will find his future within the borders of the future Palestinian state, and not in Israel.
The ultimate goal of the Palestinian Arabs is the dismantling of the State of Palestinian Jews – Israel. They try it in ways of war, terror, and politics. The Oslo Accord is a Kodayeva agreement for them, as Arafat said in Johannesburg. That means that Oslo accord was a temporary agreement some of his goals by political means and then annihilation of the Jews by force of terror, as their Prophet Muhammad did to three Jewish communities of Khaybar and Quraish, and to some Christian communities in Mecca and its surroundings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37xnaqF-6B4&feature=youtu.be&t=4
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“Israelis Have Taken To Spitting on Palestinians During Coronavirus” If Americans Knew Blog,
“Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story.
By Ramzy Baroud, reposted from Mint Press News
EXCERPT: “Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva droplets, Israeli soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers are working extra hard to spit at as many Palestinians, their cars, doorknobs, and so on, as possible.
“If this sounds to you too surreal and repugnant, then you might not be as familiar with the particular breed of Israeli colonialism as you may think you are.
“In all fairness, Israelis have been spitting at Palestinians well before the World Health Organization (WHO) lectured us on the elusive nature of the COVID-19 disease and on the critical need to apply ‘social distancing’.
“Indeed, if you Google the phrase ‘Israeli spitting’, you will be inundated with many interesting search results, the like of “Jerusalem Judge to Jews: Don’t Spit On Christians“, “Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to Stop Spitting on Them“, and the more recent, “Israel Settlers Spitting on Palestinian Cars Raises Concern over Attempt to Spread Coronavirus”.
“Interestingly, most of this coverage throughout the years has been carried out by Israel’s own media, while receiving little attention in Western mainstream media.
“One could easily classify such degrading acts as yet another example of the Israelis’ false sense of superiority over Palestinians. But the deliberate attempt at infecting occupied Palestinians with the coronavirus is beneath contempt, even for a settler-colonial regime.”