World must move to stop Israel crimes: Activist

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jamal Juma, head of the "Stop the Wall" Campaign in Ramallah, about a report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem. The analyst censured the Tel Aviv regime’s persisting policy of detaining Palestinians and holding them in captivity without charge or trial, describing the practice as legally and morally unacceptable.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How important is this B’Tselem report do you think?

Juma: I think it is very important and all the international human rights organizations, Palestinians, everybody in the world should raise their voice very loudly against this. This is a crime against humanity to hold the people in detentions without any charges. This is a way that Israel is punishing the Palestinian people and the prisoners who make them spend in jail as much as time without any charges. This is not acceptable anymore. The Palestinian prisoners and prisoners’ movement started its escalation against this … they struggled with their bodies, with their stomachs, with their soul there in order to end this since like more than now three years and we have here to salute the Palestinian President and to greet him who is taking this step in order to have the fight against this injustice that is going against them.

The B’Tselem report is very important. The Human Rights Watch should say loudly also its position against this, the Amnesty [International], and it is not just that. This will not be enough. What is needed is more than that. We need a mechanism of pressure on the United Nations, on international organizations not just to condemn this but as well as to take serious measures in order to stop this.

First of all the Israeli judicial system should be going out of law and it should not be considered like as they have this idea about the Israelis that they have a bit of justice. It is totally out of law - the whole Israeli judicial system that they are using to justify these things, to justify the demolition of Palestinian houses, to justify the occupation on the ground and the ethnic cleansing that is going on. We need to make Israel [be held] accountable for all these crimes that they are committing all the time, that they are committing constantly mainly about our prisoners and as well as all other occupation measures that they are doing on the ground.

Press TV: I am wondering how do you feel then about this new law which allows for the force-feeding of these hunger strikers?

Juma: This is adding also a crime on the other crimes. This is unacceptable. This is a real crime against the prisoners there and should stop immediately and I think the Palestinian prisoners are rejecting this. We all [must] stand up against this horrific step that they are taking. This shows the kind of the Israeli government so it is peeling its facts like that.

This is a total criminal establishment that it makes us much more convinced that we have to unify all efforts nationally and internationally in order to break this, in order to stop this and unfortunately there are still around the world big establishments that are still silent and backing up this criminal regime. This is not enough evidence to stand up against this. This is one of the most countries in the world that is breaking the international law and destroying the morals of the humanity by this way.

So it is time to move against this and we are urging all the world, all the international bodies  that they are interested in things like [this], starting from the human rights organizations to the United Nations that this should not be acceptable anymore and they must move immediately to stop this.

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