Israel's new laws 'dehumanize' Palestinians, PLO says
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says new rules that allow Israeli forces to target Palestinian protesters in the occupied territories with live bullets “dehumanize” Palestinians.
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat on Saturday described the measures as “a mere pretext to justify the escalating Israeli crimes against the people of Palestine.”
The Tel Aviv regime “continues to incite against Palestinian lives, with a culture of hate that dehumanizes a whole nation,” the PLO chief stated.
Erekat said Palestinians would hold the regime of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accountable for the “new crimes to be committed under this new regulation.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Palestinian official said Palestinians would report violations of international law committed by the Israeli forces to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has warned that the approval of use of live ammunition against Palestinian protesters would “exacerbate the cycle of violence with lethal results.”
Tel Aviv has moved to toughen measures against Palestinian stone-throwers in al-Quds (Jerusalem), broadening the rules that allow Israeli military forces to target Palestinians with live bullets.
On September 24, Netanyahu said in a statement that his cabinet “has decided to authorize police to use live ammunition against people throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.”
Earlier, Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein had approved Netanyahu’s plan to change the rules of engagement and declare “war against stone-throwers and firebomb throwers” in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Weinstein also approved the arrest of Palestinian minors under the age of 10 who throw stones.
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