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Israel rapped for demolishing Palestinian homes
Ramped-up IDF demolitions leave dozens of Palestinian adults & children homeless
https://www.rt.com/news/353490-idf-demolishes-palestinian-homes/
Israel has stepped up its demolition of Palestinian homes this year, with the IDF destroying 11 more houses on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Tuesday. The total number of bulldozed buildings in 2016 could become the highest in a decade. At least 44 people were left homeless, including 11 children, according to leading Israeli human rights group Bt’Selem. One of the homes destroyed on Tuesday was a two-story building. The demolished homes were located in Qalandiya, near Jerusalem.
The reason behind the demolitions is said to be the lack of proper building permits for the houses. However, it is almost impossible for Palestinians to receive permits in the part of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control – which happens to be about 60 percent of the territory, according to the UN. Authorities did not comment directly as to why the homes were demolished.
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Palestine Announces Plan to Sue Britain for Creation of Israel
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950507000869
Palestinian authority president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention to sue the British state for its part in helping to establish Israeli regime and its subsequent crimes against the Palestinian people.
The statement was made at the Arab League Summit this week in Mauritania by Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in Abbas’ absence, Ria Novosti reported.
Abbas’ statement called on other members of the Arab League to support Palestine in carrying out a lawsuit against the UK over the Balfour Declaration, which paved the way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
Mahmoud Abbas and his government pointed the finger at Britain for facilitating and ultimately supporting “Israeli crimes”. He also said that the UK was one of the main parties responsible for the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
Foreign Minister al-Maliki told delegates at the summit that Palestine would be filing a lawsuit against Britain in the international court, but did not specify exactly when the government planned to do so.
The declaration, dated to the year 1917 and over 100-years old, was a document from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to a renowned leader of the Jewish Community at the time, Lionel Walter Rothschild.
“We are working to open up an international criminal case for the crime which they committed against our nation, from the days of the British manage all the way to the massacre which was carried out against us from 1948 onward,” al-Maliki said.
Israeli regime claimed independence in the year 1948 after the British mandate expired. In the subsequent Arab-Israeli war, approximately 700-800,000 Palestinians were displaced, promoting a huge demographic shift in favor of Israel. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is yet to issue a statement concerning Abbas’ statement.
Whether or not the international community will take Abas’ statement seriously remains to be seen, but it marks an unprecedented move in British-Palestine relations over the last decade.