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UN & PLO rejection of Trump Peace Plan caused Akleh's death

By David Singer - posted Wednesday, 8 June 2022


Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera reporter killed by Israeli forces

A later statementfrom Al Jazeera indicated it had not resiled from its unproven claim:

In addition to the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli Occupation Forces outside Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on May 11, 2022, the case file will also include the Israeli bombing and total destruction of Al Jazeera's office in Gaza in May 2021, as well as the continuous incitements and attacks on its journalists operating in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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No mention was made of Israel's claim that the Gazan building housing Al Jazeera:

...contained military assets belonging to Hamas military intelligence...

The Jenin refugee camp should have been closed after it came under the PLO's administration in 1995 with its 14000 occupants being resettled in Jenin or other West Bank Arab towns and villages.

The UN has never called for Jenin Camp's closure – despite UNRWA labelling it as experiencing:

...one of the highest rates of unemployment and poverty among the 19 West Bank refugee camps.

Nor does the UN question why those 19 refugee camps are open today – being located in the territory of the State of Palestinea non-member observer state of the UN.

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The UN keeps repeating its mantra for a two-state solution - which Trump's plan provides for – but refuses to call on the PLO to negotiate with Israel on the final contours of Trump's proposed new State.

Instead the UN continues to take note of the quarterly reports prepared by Tor Wennesland, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, detailing the cycle of violence that peace negotiations could have helped prevent.

The UN and the PLO have a lot to answer for the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh.


 

 

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Author's note: The cartoon - commissioned exclusively for this article - is by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators - whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.



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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.

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