Alwaght- The United Nations' Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, has expressed concerns over Israeli regimes' illegal settlement activities at meeting on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Speaking on behalf of the Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson said “We continue to witness illegal settlement activities and settler-related violence. Demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures have continued, including punitive demolitions".
One year after the General Assembly commemorated the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People; the UN's Deputy Secretary said "Since the last ruinous conflict in Gaza, security and hope in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem (al_Quds), remain at a very low point.
“It is abundantly clear that Palestinians feel deep frustration over an occupation that has lasted nearly fifty years,” he noted.
Saying that the State of Palestine joined the UN as a non-Member Observer State, Eliasson reiterated that "However, these diplomatic advances are not felt by children in Gaza, or by the Palestinians of Nablus and Hebron".
The Israeli regime routinely orders the demolition of the houses of those Palestinians whom it accuses of being involved in attacks against Israelis.
The destruction of Palestinian homes and buildings comes as the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying entity from destroying private property or forcibly transferring the region's population.
The demolition of Palestinian homes comes hand in hand with Tel Aviv's policy of construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis currently reside in more than 120 illegal settlements constructed since the regime’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967. The settlements are considered illegal by most of the international community.
Since the beginning of October, almost 90 Palestinians have been brutally killed by Israeli regime forces and extremist settlers during the ongoing Intifada or uprising. 13 Israelis have been killed in revenge attacks revenge attacks by Palestinians while some have been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the ensuing confusion.
The recent al-Quds Intifada has been triggered to end the temporal and spatial division of al-Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli settlement construction, the Judaization schemes, and Israeli regime's brutal attacks on Palestinians.
