Palestinians to submit complaint to UN regarding Israeli aggression

A number of Palestinian senior officials and intellectuals signed the largest memorandum of protest against settlement activity and the Separation Wall today.

The move came as part of the activities carried out by the Coordinating Commission to Commemorate the 67th Anniversary of the Nakba.

The opening ceremony was headed by Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh who said: “We not only refuse the settlements engulfing our land; we also refuse to live under occupation.”

Haniyeh stressed that the Palestinian people, no matter where they have sought refuge, are guests where they are residing and that their return to their land is closer than ever.

The memorandum included 1,050 signatures and will be submitted to the United Nations on 14 May in order for the UN to carry out its duties of ending settlement activity and the systematic looting of Palestinian land.

Atef Adwan, the Hamas Minister of Refugees said that “this activity is being carried out to confront the occupation’s brutal settlement policies that disregard all international resolutions.”

Adwan also noted that the settlement activity is increasing at a frightening pace, starting with the Separation Wall, followed by the increasing settlement units, and has now reached the point of demolishing the homes of Palestinians.

Images by MEMO photographer Mohammed Asad.