Charities, trade unions, religious groups, and civil society organisations have signed a statement urgently calling on public bodies to “uphold their ethical and legal responsibilities to ensure human rights and international law are respected” as a direct response to Israel’s plans to illegally annex Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Quakers in Britain have joined a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations to oppose further illegal Israeli annexation of occupied Palestine.
Amnesty International has sent a 300,000-strong petition to TripAdvisor's CEO Stephen Kaufer, calling on the online travel company to discontinue its operations in Israel's illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
The plan would crystalise a 21st century apartheid, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.
A UN expert has voiced concern about lack of human rights accountability in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, pointing to the actions of “an occupying power seemingly bent on further territorial annexation”.