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To
the International Court of Justice,
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The wall anchors
Israeli military occupation and colonies in the Palestinian
territories, in a blatant violation of international law and
resolutions, which do not permit annexation of land by force.
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The wall drives
towards the practice of ethnic cleansing and is subjecting an
entire population to aggressive collective punishment, to the
strangest and harshest laws such as separating the farmers,
students, workers and the sick from their lands, water source,
schools, doctors and hospitals and their workplace. Moreover, it
divides each city and village into enclaves, splitting and
dispersing members of the same family. These practices contradict
basic human rights, the 4th Geneva Convention and the related
international covenants.
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The wall
restores the ghetto culture and instills an apartheid regime
encouraging discrimination in the era of human globalization and
openness.
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The wall
destroys hopes for peace and all of the political initiatives,
fostering an atmosphere of hatred, animosity and war between
states and countries of the region as well as jeopardizing
security and stability in the Middle East.
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The wall is
causing environment catastrophes, with the uprooting of a hundred
thousand trees in the first phase alone and the destroying and/or
annexing Palestinian water resources. Furthermore, the wall has
destroyed and targeted archeological and historical sites in this
ancient land.
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In order to
solve the harms caused by this wall, which are listed above, a
unified and strong campaign, should condemn and combat these
actions to stop and reverse the construction of this wall, for no
change in route could dissolve these violations.
We
appeal for your urgent action for the sake of peace. We call on you
to act immediately, to stop and remove the Israeli segregation wall
that is under construction now in the occupied Palestinian
territories.
The National Initiative to Resist the Wall
http://www.thewallpetition.com/
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