Palestinian Groups Condemn Violence, Ask World to Recognize Root Cause

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Amid rising violence and tensions in recent weeks, Palestinian rights groups on Thursday condemned all “forms of attacks on civilians” and declared that the current situation cannot be “explained, addressed, or remedied” without a clear-eyed look at its root causes, which remain Israel’s violations of international law and brutal control of the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ) called on the international community to withdraw support from the bloodshed by halting military aid, political backing, and “institutionalized impunity” for Israel.

“There is a root cause for this violence,” the groups declared. “Israel’s continued violations of international law, including its brutal and illegal military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory that has lasted 48 years and its racist policies against Palestinian citizens of Israel.”

This month alone, Israeli armed forces have killed at least 46 Palestinians and wounded over 5,000, the groups report. According to Defense for Children International-Palestine, at least ten children are among those killed over the past three weeks. Eight Jewish Israelis have been killed over the same time period—at least one because he was mistaken for a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier. Eritrean asylum seeker Haftom Zarhum was beaten and killed at the Be’er Sheva bus station last week by an Israeli crowd that falsely suspected him of carrying out an attack.

The pair of coalitions—which includes well-known rights groups such as Addameer, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling—say the only way to curb the rise in violence is to end the occupation.

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