There was no way to give up or go a step backward by giving up the legitimate needs of our people, including the need for international protection. |
This wall is not about security. It's about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land, |
This wall is not about security. It's about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land. |
Today, 10 more martyrs have fallen in the occupied territories, two of them children under 18, |
Unless a range of problems in the Gaza Strip is resolved, it will turn into a huge prison camp, |
We are back to square one. We believe that the council will respond hopefully in a better way tomorrow. |
We are convinced that some members of the Israeli army who committed crimes of war must be brought to trial and punished for that, |
We are disappointed at this wave of suicide bombings. |
We are making it clear that, for us, the central issue is actual need of cessation of settlement activities and construction of the wall, |
We can't speculate about the result of the elections but the political programs (of the Israeli parties) are clear and most of them are not conducive to reaching a real peace. |
We think it's reasonable. We think it's objective, ... There is no politics for anyone who wants to see the facts. |
We thought that the Israeli side had nothing to hide. Obviously they do. |
We tried our best to stop these kinds of attacks through dialogue, but we also made it clear that, if need be, we will have to try to put an end to such attacks by force, ... Hopefully, we will not have to do such things, and hopefully all Palestinian factions will remain committed to our agreement with regard to the ceasefire. |
What we are looking for now is more decisive positions, more decisive actions (by the United Nations ) that hopefully would oblige Israel to go in the right direction, |