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United Nations 2 Occupied Palestinian Territories (UN2oPts)

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This petition has been created by Stephen B. and may not represent the views of the Avaaz community.
Stephen B.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN Security Council
Message from Petition Creator and Organizer Human Rights Activist Stephen Brackens-Brinkley:


FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FIVE 445 MINOR CHILDREN ARE IN ISRAELI PRISONS SOME AS YOUNG AS 10.. IF YOU COULD POSSIBLY SAVE THE LIFE OF EVEN ONE CHILD.

WOULDN'T YOU?

I'M ASKING YOU 2 CARE...2 SIGN and 2 SHARE
THIS PROTECTION PETITION:

http://bit.ly/1L8SyO3

It has been over one year and, despite Israeli promises to rebuild, in the devastated areas not a single repair has been made, not even one destroyed structure rebuilt.

Gaza has been under an Israeli blockade since 2006- meaning the Gaza population does not have free access to even leave or enter their own country. Palestinians in Gaza are virtual prisoners in their own country. The economy of Gaza is destroyed with virtually no exports allowed, extremely limited imports , only one working water filtration plant which is failing due to the allocated six hours of electricity per day by Israel.

In the Syrian Golan Heights, again an occupied territory that Israel has colonized in violation of international law (the 4th Geneva Convention), the Israeli government has sold development and mineral rights and authorized oil drilling operations to U.S. entities. Among the recognizable names set to profit enormously are David Rothschild, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Zionist extraordinaire Rupert Murdoch.

In the West Bank, illegal colonizers (settlers), who carry arms, are building on Palestinian land that does not belong to them at an alarming rate and importing, from the United States, radical extremist youths to reside there whose main purpose in coming is to induce fear, terror, intimidation and commit violent acts ultimately, resulting in the total eradication of the Palestinian Arab Population. To this end, they nightly embark on reigns of terror into the Arab neighborhoods, setting fires to Palestinian homes, creating disturbances and hoping to catch weak, solitary or otherwise disadvantaged victim or victims for kidnapping, assault, torture and/or murder. The Israeli military or IDF (Israeli Defense Force) continues daily beating, intimidating, abducting the civilian population with impunity. Those who bear the brunt of their tactics are the male Palestinian youths, but recently, increasingly more and more of their victims have been women, the elderly, disabled and especially the children.

"A United Nations protection force is absolutely vital and necessary for the survival of the Palestinian Arab population.”

- Stephen Brackens-Brinkley

Imagine where you live is Gaza, not where you live now: You are trapped. You cannot leave. You are facing food insecurity along with 70% of the population. With an average unemployment rate of 48%, and the cutting of funds, you have to choose between shelter and food for your family. Your little sister is sick but there are only 17 hospitals and clinics able to serve 1.8 million people. You find out your little sister needs life saving surgery but the equipment needed for the operation was destroyed during the war. Meanwhile there are no books for the children to study and because so many schools were damaged during the wars, the children only receive four hours of instruction a day.

Now imagine where you live is in East Jerusalem or the West Bank: A geographical area equivalent to Delaware in the United States surrounded by an illegal apartheid wall that the Rome Statute under the ICC has issued as criminal: You are forced to use a separate road system that is interconnected with 630 obstacles that include trenches, checkpoints, roadblocks, road closures with massive earth mounds, detours and road gates that completely prevent entrance. You must wait at each checkpoint to seek permission to travel into the next sector: to travel just a few miles could take more than 24 hours. This means most families have become disconnected.

You and your children are subject to either the Israeli military justice system in the West Bank or the Israeli justice system in East Jerusalem. Either way, the rules and laws are constantly changing where you are denied legal representation while you languish in illegal detention which you must navigate the process yourself in Hebrew, not your native language and it does not matter even if you are a child.

Military abductions of children, young people and adults happen every day and night where the systems that take you do not document you or give you access to family or legal representation.

You and your family are subjected not to just a menacing military force but also illegal settlers who are permitted to carry semi-automatic weapons: these settlers regularly attack you with their vehicles, weapons, threats, intimidation including burning you alive with your family in your home as you are sleeping. And meanwhile the military force occupying you, looks the other way in spite of international law that it must protect you and provide security.

And while all this happening… … Israel, the Israeli military and illegal Israeli settlers are stealing your resources of water and land, while destroying your crops including thousand-year old olive trees.

And the world ignores your situation, in spite of the United Nations that reports frequently on your suffering, the same United Nations that issued under UNISPAL that you can not militarize or carry weapons, leaving you unarmed and unprotected. Seven decades of genocide is still happening under open policies of hate indoctrination and Israeli imposed suffering.

FOR MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS PETITION AND HOW YOU MAY FURTHER HELP, PLEASE GO TO:

HTTP://BTHECHANGE.INFO
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