The United Nations, various States, international organizations, legal and academic scholars and people of conscience around the world have repeatedly condemned and rejected such measures and continue to call for an end to the above-mentioned violations and to the illegal occupation.
Their calls have been echoed by numerous artists and human rights activists who have used the Wall as a canvas to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people, with striking images expressing messages of solidarity, hope and compassion, rejection of the occupation, and calls for justice, freedom and peace.
A selection of these images is presented in this exhibit. While most speak for themselves, some have deeper meanings including the depiction of the plight of the city of Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus, completely surrounded by the Wall; Lady Liberty weeping over Handala, symbol for the Palestine refugees and the injustice they continue to bear; and an image honoring Razan Al-Najjar, a Palestinian medic killed by an Israeli sniper as she was tending to the wounded during the Great March of Return in Gaza.
Israel's threat to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has alarmed Palestinians, many Israelis and the broader international community. If implemented, annexation would constitute a most serious violation of international law, grievously harm the prospect of a two-State solution and undercut the possibilities of a renewal of negotiations. I call on the Israeli Government to abandon its annexation plans[…] I will continue to consistently speak out against any unilateral steps that would undermine peace and the chances for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through meaningful negotiations.
If the joint mapping of Palestinian lands to be seized by the Israeli government continues, the standing of the United States in the international community will be further damaged. The West Bank belongs to Palestine, and any changes should be mutually agreed upon.
Yet there is nothing static about this reality. It is a calculated and deliberate process of slowly splitting up an entire people, fragmenting their land, and disrupting their lives: separating Gaza from the West Bank, breaking up the West Bank into small enclaves, and walling off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. International law is a fundamental pillar of the international rules-based order.
In this respect, the EU and its Member States recall that they will not recognize any changes to the borders unless agreed by Israelis and Palestinians. The two-state solution, with Jerusalem as the future capital for both States, is the only way to ensure sustainable peace and stability in the region. Needless to say, unilateral annexation will lead to escalating crises in Palestine, Jordan, and the entire region, and runs the risk of turning Israel into an apartheid state.
We firmly believe that now is the time for action from the international community to prevent Israel from proceeding with annexation, which will doom generations to come to more oppression, injustice and violence. Group of Israeli academics, members of parliament, and former diplomats, in a letter to the Irish Times, 7 May The inaction of the international community, and in many instances its support to Israel, has encouraged Israel, the occupying power, to go further with its violations, ignore its legal obligations under international law and act as a state that is above the law.
Under these conditions, annexation of Palestinian territories will cement into place an anti-democratic system of separate and unequal law and systemic discrimination against the Palestinian population. Everybody has to move, run and grab as many [Palestinian] hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours[ Statements reaffirming support for the two-State solution based on the pre borders and opposing Israeli annexation have poured in from almost all countries, the Middle East Quartet, as well as representatives of the US Congress.
As welcome as they are, statements are not enough and the time for action is long overdue. The expansion of Israel's control over the Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, is eroding, literally, the possibility of achieving the two-State solution.
If Israel's annexation plans proceed, what would be left of the West Bank would become a Palestinian Bantustan[ This annexation will not be reversed through rebukes, nor will the year-old occupation die of old age[ Only this can compel the Israeli political leadership to do the right thing.
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can only ever be solved by finding a solution that guarantees peace, security, rights and dignity to both peoples.
Unilaterally seizing territory and ignoring international law achieves precisely the opposite. Amidst the current global health pandemic and financial crisis, we urge all parties involved in the formation of a new government not to create an additional crisis by agreeing to move forward with unilateral annexation, the effects of which could yield additional catastrophic consequences for all parties in the region and beyond.
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