Embassy of the State of Palestine

A draft United Nations Security Council resolution prepared by New Zealand which seeks to promote renewed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations by cutting out the International Criminal Court is seriously misguided, Amnesty International said today.

The draft resolution calls on Israel and Palestine to “to refrain from referring… a situation concerning Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories to the International Criminal Court.”

This morning His Excellency, Ambassador Izzat Abdulhadi met with the Australian Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade to discuss the current situation in Palestine.

His Excellency, called on members of the Joint Standing Committee to uphold Australia’s role as a good international citizen by taking the following actions:

Recognise the State of Palestine,
Support the Palestinian resolutions in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session by voting in favour of implementing the Fourth Geneva Convention in the OPT and in favour of condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the OPT,
Support the Palestinian call for the Security Council to provide an International Protection Force in Occupied East Jerusalem to protect the Palestinian people from collective punishment, extrajudicial executions and the excessive and disproportionate use of force against civilians by the dominate military power Israel,
Support the Palestinian approach to multilateral diplomacy based on international law, UN Resolutions, human rights and the pragmatic attainment of a two-state solution,
Take immediate action to pressure Israel to cease its excessive use of force and collective punishment,
Use Australia’s friendship with Israel to put pressure on the Israeli state to end its illegal military Occupation, respect international law, recognise the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people and commit to peace through a two-state solution,
Visit Palestine regularly to gain an understanding of the realities in the OPT,
Keep informed regarding the ongoing structures of violence and oppression endured by Palestinians on a daily basis in their struggle for self-determination and basic human rights and freedoms.

In video footage obtained by Ma'an, Israeli officials have been captured on film hurling abuse at a 13-year-old Palestinian child accused of stabbing two Israelis in East Jerusalem last month during the child's interrogation.

The footage shows segments of the interrogation of Ahmad Manasra, 13, as Israeli detectives yell curses and verbally abuse the child, while questioning him about the incident and his motives.

Ambassador of the State of Palestine H.E. Izzat Abdulhadi celebrated Independence Day with the Palestinian People in Sydney on the 11th of November 2015, in an event organized by the Council of Australian Palestinians (CAP) which, commemorated the late martyred President Yasser Arafat.

The programme of work with the members of the Federal Parliament resumed in 2015. The Ambassador of the State of Palestine Mr. Izzat Abdulhadi met with a number of MPs and senators in Parliament to discuss the political situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly the root causes of the current wave of violence and the continued Israeli Occupation and oppressive practices against the Palestinian people. Repeated systematic violence is used and still being employed by the Occupying power against the Palestinian people, especially the continuing settlement activity and continued violations of religious rights of the Palestinians in the Haram Al-Sharif area.

JERUSALEM, November 9, 2015 (WAFA) – Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in a statement released on Monday the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of 2,200 new housing units in two West Bank settlements, as well as a plan to organize two settlement outposts.

It said the Israeli decision undermines any chance of a two-state solution and attempts to revive peace talks.

The latest Op-Ed by Dr. Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization, entitled “The Palestinian People Ask: Where is Israel’s F.W. de Klerk”, published in Wall Street Journal, on November 7th, 2015*.

The latest Op-Ed by Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, Central Committee Member of Fatah and head of PECDAR, entitled “Obama, Ask Netanyahu Straight Out: Do You Believe in the Two-state Solution?” published in Haaretz on November 8th, 2015.

Negotiation Affairs Department issued a report on November 5th, 2015 highlighting key points to remember when reporting on Occupied Palestine. These key points include;Israel occupies the State of Palestine. The main issue is the Israeli Occupation.Palestinian Recognition of Israel was met with more Colonization. For Israel, forcible displacement and colonization are an official policy, not the two-state solution. East Jerusalem is an integral part of the Occupied State of Palestine. Israeli settlements in Occupied East Jerusalem are as illegal as settlements in the rest of the Occupied State of Palestine. The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound is under Israeli Occupation just as the rest of East Jerusalem. Israel has effectively changed Al-Aqsa’s Status Quo ...

04 October 2015, East Jerusalem, In Tokyo today, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl was received by H.E. Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan. This meeting, a first in the Agency's history, was an opportunity to express profound gratitude for Japan's long-standing and generous support to Palestine refugees and to the Agency's human development activities.