Sunday, July 15, 2012

Palestinians slam Levy report on legality of settlements as 'dumb'



Palestinians slam Levy report on legality of settlements as 'dumb'


Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister: Next, Israel will want to deport us all after ruling that settlements are legal and Palestinian residence is illegal 


Daniel Siryoti, Lilach Shoval and Gadi Golan


Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Levy report. 


The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday condemned the report by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy that declared settlements in Judea and Samaria legal, calling it a "dumb report" and a "joke."


Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel "to halt settlement construction and release Palestinian prisoners so that we can continue negotiations for a just peace. No report will change the Palestinian position." Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki harshly criticized the report, saying, "these are dumb recommendations made in a dumb report. The next step is that Israel will want to deport all of us after ruling that the settlements are legal and Palestinian residence is illegal."


The Palestine Liberation Organization released a statement slamming the report as "not consistent with international law and a legal farce."


In Gaza overnight, the Israel Air Force attacked two Hamas-linked terrorist targets in the southern Strip. The air force confirmed direct hits on both targets. The airstrike was in response to gunfire from Gaza that hit a vehicle in Yad Mordechai, as well as two Qassam rockets that exploded in the area of the Ashkelon Regional Council on Monday. Firing from the Gaza Strip continued on Tuesday with two mortars fired at a town in the Eshkol Regional Council area; no injuries or damage was reported.


Also Tuesday, the attorney of Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, announced that she intends to file a complaint in France to prompt an investigation into whether her late husband was poisoned, as a recent Al-Jazeera report has claimed. A senior Palestinian Authority official, however, told Israel Hayom Tuesday that a member of Arafat's family has yet to formally request to exhume the body.


The Palestinian Authority has meanwhile approved holding elections for local administrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on October 20. The elections have been delayed twice due to disagreements between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.


http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5018

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