PRESS RELEASE 

PLO Executive Committee 

Department of Culture and Information

March 19, 2014

 Dr. Ashrawi condemns Israel’s latest violations

PLO Executive Committee member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, strongly condemned Israel’s latest prejudicial facts on the ground, which included the approval of 186 illegal settlement units in Occupied East Jerusalem, the killing of 15-year-old Yousef Nayif Yousef Shawamrah Abu Akar in Hebron, and the proposed Knesset legislation to extend the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law which severely limits reunification for Palestinian families:

“With Israel’s latest escalation of its illegal settlement enterprise, its racist and prejudicial legislation at the expense of the Palestinian people, the extra-judicial killing of Palestinian civilians, among other flagrant violations of international and humanitarian law, it is has become evident that Israel has done everything possible to destroy the ongoing negotiations and to provoke violence and extremism throughout the region.”

“We call on the U.S. and the rest of the international community to possess the political will necessary to end Israel’s culture of impunity, exceptionalism and entitlement.  Israel is deliberately breaching international law and conventions, and it is time that all states undertake punitive measures to hold Israel accountable,” concluded Dr. Ashrawi.