N°16 septembre 2021 After strikes last Saturday Israel unleashed new bombardments on Gaza on Monday evening.
About 40 Palestinians were injured. A Palestinian teenager was killed on Tuesday by more Israeli army fire during clashes in the Balata refugee camp (northern West Bank). That same day, Israel carried out further airstrikes against Gaza. The raids did not claim any casualties, but they caused material damage, said a Palestinian security source in the enclave. The strikes follow further Israeli raids on Saturday night on the Palestinian enclave. The raids took place following clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinians on Saturday, during protests along the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. About 40 Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire during the clashes. In Jerusalem, the eastern part of which is recognized as the capital of the future Palestinian State, the State of Israel is organizing ethnic cleansing and expulsion of Palestinian families who defend themselves by demonstrating against the occupying forces. The Israeli repression of this solidarity movement is one of the causes of the outbreak of the war that lasted eleven days in Gaza and killed 260 Palestinians. The neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan are at the heart of Israel's strategy to expand its grip on East Jerusalem, which it has illegally occupied since 1967, by driving Palestinians out and attempting to dissolve Arab identity from the city. In these neighborhoods, for months the Israeli police have used the “kharara”, the “shit truck,” as the Palestinians call it, to disperse the demonstrators. It is also a collective punishment for the inhabitants who resist their eviction for the benefit of Israeli settlers, who covet the homes of 300 Palestinians. In the district of Silwan, nearly 1,000 people could see their houses demolished, in Batn Al-Hawa, 86 families are threatened with eviction in favor of an organization of Israeli settlers. In the district of Silwan, house demolition could affect nearly 1,000 people, in Batn Al-Hawa, 86 families are threatened with eviction in favor of an organization of Israeli settlers. Two organizations, Ateret Cohanim and Elad, aided by the Israeli government, have relocated several hundred settlers in this area. In Wadi Joz 200 Palestinian businesses are to be destroyed to make way for a high-tech center…
Palestinians are unwanted and have no place in what is to be the capital of the future Palestinian state: waving a black, green, white and red flag is punished. Since the 1967 war, more than 14,000 Palestinians have lost their homes. "The municipality is working to uphold the law and implement the idea that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish nation," said deputy mayor Arieh King, with the goal of "maintaining a strong Jewish majority in the city" by fixing a "ratio of 70% Jews and 30% Arabs"... an "assimilation plan is being organized to erase Palestinian identity." Israel illegally regards Jerusalem as its capital and sets itself three goals: "Keep control over all of Jerusalem, and East Jerusalem in particular, limit the Palestinian demography and implement a very offensive colonization in the Old City and its basin, which are overwhelmingly Palestinian, in order to Judaize these areas", a researcher summarizes. Colonization and demolitions in East Jerusalem have never been so intense.
Israel controls East Jerusalem and violates Palestinians’ human rights. The international community remains silent. Israel's impunity must end, an impunity it owes to the unwavering support of the United States, the European Union and, in particular, the French government's support for the Israeli state must cease. Those who activate political and economic sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Belarus... do not lift a finger when it comes to their ally who thus feels authorized to destroy a country and assassinate a people. By colonizing a country and practicing apartheid Israel is perpetrating a crime against humanity.
Our party reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle for their rights, especially those to a free and independent State and the return of refugees. We support the campaigns for the political, economic and cultural boycott of Israel; we demand from the French government that it cease its support for Israel and as a first step sever its diplomatic relations with it.