OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– 16 international human rights and relief organizations signed a petition demanding the world leaders to pressure Israel to stop its demolition of Palestinian homes and its settlement activities.
The organizations issued their appeal one week after the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced about 52 Palestinian civilians after knocking down their homes in the area classified as C.
In a statement on Friday the signatories to the petition noted that Israel had carried out demolitions against 203 Palestinian homes since the start of the current year in area C under its control.
They demanded the political leaders of the world to hold Israel accountable for violating the international law through its persistence in settlement expansion activities demolition of Palestinian homes and forced displacement of its residents.
The organizations that signed the petition included the Norwegian people’s aid action against hunger the American friends service committee medical aid for Palestinians the Norwegian refugee council the polish humanitarian action and Carter center.
The organizations said that Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes and structures has become systematic and rendered hundreds of Palestinians homeless in the West Bank.
It stressed that the world leaders should not continue ignoring Israel’s displacement of children and elderly people from their homes for the expansion of its illegal settlements in the West Bank.
The IOA demolished between 23 and 30 April 36 Palestinian homes and structures including five tents given by the French consulate to victimized families whose homes had been flattened earlier this year.
