Palestinian Authority now called State of Palestine but Occupied?! « Kawther Salam
Palestinian Authority now called State of Palestine but Occupied?!
Sunday Jan. 1 2013, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a presidential decree on Friday officially changing the name of the Palestinian Authority to the “State of Palestine.” All Palestinian stamps, signs and official letterhead will henceforth be changed to bear the new name. Abbas issued instructions to Palestinian embassies around the world to change all references to the Palestinian Authority to State of Palestine after the UN vote in November.
Palestine was voted in as a non-member state by the UN General Assembly on Nov. 29, 2012.
The Palestinian Authority was established 20 years ago as a consequence of the signing of Oslo, that miserable “peace project” which turned the Palestinians into spies for Israel and the US-Western security agencies. As a consequence, the Palestinian authority replaced the Israeli military police and army in chasing and jailing the Palestinian resistance, protecting the Israeli occupation colonies and lengthening its age.
Since two decades the PA relies on the US-EU-western-Arabs alms, of which more than one of the third goes for the PA police and military system which ONLY protect Israel and replaces the IDF in its dirty mission. Another third of these “donations” goes to other PA bodies, and another third of the donations goes to Abbas himself and cover his travels and feed his bank accounts.
The Palestinian Authority employs some 150,000 people, including civil servants and members of the security forces. About 60,000 of them live in Gaza and served under Abbas before the Hamas takeover, but they continue to draw salaries even though they’ve since been replaced by Hamas loyalists
All the while, the Palestinians are suffering of poverty and high taxes imposed by the PA. Since over three months, Palestinians are protesting the poverty, teachers and unions of workers are on strike and protests, but with no results. Starting in December, Israel halted the monthly transfers of about $100 million in taxes it collects on behalf of the PA. That sum amounts to about one-third of the monthly operating costs of the Palestinian Authority. Fayyad said that he now only takes in about $50 million a month in revenues.
November 19, 2012 – Gaza: this phase of the attack on Gaza began November 14th, 2012 with a targeted killing of Ahmed Al-Ja’bari, the leader of Hamas. Eight other civilians died with him. The attack on Gaza continues with air strikes on civilian areas reported by the international media. Israel’s air targeting has moved from identified rocket launchers to civilian infra structure and individual homes of those suspected as militants. The high rate of civilian casualties exceeds “collateral damage”. (
During four days of the israeli zionist war crimes in Gaza, 40 Palestinians have been killed and over 400 injured, among them many in serious conditions, one third of the killed and injured Palestinians were children. Several houses and buildings have been completely destroyed and leveled to the ground, among them the building of the Prime Minister offices.
In Gaza and according to a press release from Al Mizan for Human Rights: (Note: the number of the causalities, the murdered and injured Palestinians, increased after this press release). Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched an air strike on a house, in a serious escalation of its aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Solaiman Salah and his son, Mohammed, 13, sustained critical injuries. His wife, Fayza Salah, 53, and her son Zakariya, 19, and daughter, Safaa, 23, sustained moderate injuries. Al Mezan filed workers noted that the northern part of the family house collapsed completely, but the back part of the house remained standing with partial damage. The family were in the back part of the house when the attack took place. Al Mezan’s field workers witnessed the rescue operation at the house by the civil defense and neighbors. Two women and two children were rescued from under the rubble. This attack damaged 10 adjacent homes; 4 of which seriously, and left 33 injuries; 13 of them children and 7 women.
Al Mezan highlights that IOF’s attacks as Israel’s over five-year-old closure and naval blockade of the Gaza Strip continue. The situation of basic services in Gaza has deteriorated seriously during these years; especially for the health, water and sanitation sectors. The Israeli closure to the Gaza’s last crossing point, through which trade and humanitarian aid can be supplied, will further deteriorate the humanitarian situation in
International community has a responsibility to act to prevent serious violations of international law and human rights. Al Mezan calls on the international community to promptly intervene to stop the Israeli aggression; including by convening an urgent session of the Human Rights Council.
According to local Palestinian sources close to the “president” Mahmoud Abbas, several Arab leaders are trying to persuade Abbas to go to Cairo to meet with Khaled Meshaal and announce the start of the implementation of the “Doha agreement” and a new government coalition with Hamas as a response to the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Today Sunday November 4 2012, thousands of Palestinians called the Palestinian Attorney General official and informal legal institution and the Palestinian Lawyers Association to initiate a criminal case against Mr. Mahmoud Abbas for violating the provisions of the Basic Palestinian Law (constitution) and the national and international laws concerning the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and property from which they were displaced by the zionist occupation, in particular, the Article 6 of the Law on the right of return for refugees of 2008, which stipulates that anyone who violates the provisions of this law shall be guilty of the crime of treason and that such an individual shall be subjected to all criminal and civil penalties assessed for this kind of offense.