{"id":14472,"date":"2018-07-25T01:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14472"},"modified":"2018-07-25T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:25:49","slug":"palestine-un-envoy-censures-israels-controversial-law-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/palestine-un-envoy-censures-israels-controversial-law-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine UN envoy censures Israel\u2019s controversial law approval"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour says the Israeli regime has created an apartheid state in the occupied territories by approving \u201cthe Jewish nation-state law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday, Mansour said the Tel Aviv regime had adopted the role model of the US segregation of the Black and embarked on segregating the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsraelis are not seeking a two-state solution, they are rather pursuing a de facto annexation of the Palestinian land,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Last week, Israel\u2019s parliament (Knesset) adopted a controversial bill that declares the occupying entity \u201cthe nation-state of the Jewish people,\u201d in what is widely criticized as an apartheid measure that could lead to discrimination against its own Arab population.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Knesset approves apartheid \u2018Israel for Jews\u2019 law<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Israel\u2019s parliament sparks anger among the Arab population by adopting an apartheid law that declares the occupying entity \u201cthe nation-state of the Jewish people.\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n

The draft law prioritizes Jewish values over democratic ones in the occupied territories, declares Jerusalem al-Quds the “capital” of Israel, allows Jewish-only communities, sets Hebrew as the official language of Israel and relegates Arabic from an official language to one with \u201cspecial status.”<\/p>\n

The law had drawn criticism by a wide range of NGOs and rights groups as a racist bill that would divide the society. Arabs in the occupied territories form about 20 percent of the population.<\/p>\n

Mansour also told reporters later at the UN that after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the \u201ccapital\u201d of Israel on December 6, Washington \u201clost the qualification to be the only party to supervise the political process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palestine\u2019s envoy said the Palestinians want a \u201ccollective process\u201d to try to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving many countries.<\/p>\n

Mansour said the United States can \u201cplay a role but they cannot be the only one to supervise this process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions have been running high along the fence separating Gaza from the Israeli-occupied territories since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests, dubbed \u201cThe Great March of Return,\u201d\u00a0demanding the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.<\/p>\n

The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of the\u00a0Nakba\u00a0Day (the Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.<\/p>\n

Nearly 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30.<\/p>\n

A total of 14,811 Palestinians have also sustained injuries,\u00a0of whom 366 are reportedly in critical condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour says the Israeli regime has created an apartheid state in the occupied territories by approving \u201cthe Jewish nation-state law.\u201d Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday, Mansour said the Tel Aviv regime had adopted the role model of the US segregation …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1465],"class_list":["post-14472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures","category-news-and-analysis","tag-wilayah_-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14473,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14472\/revisions\/14473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}