President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement today welcomed the letter by 81 British parliamentarians to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, calling on the British government to do everything in its power to prevent the mass and forced evictions and dispossession by the Israeli authorities of Palestinian families in occupied Jerusalem.
Fatah called on the British government to act in accordance with the letter of the parliamentarians because it goes along with similar calls by the United Nations and forms an opportunity to curb the racist Israeli practices that seek to change the status quo in the occupied city in a way that obstructs justice for the Palestinian people, particularly in their capital.
Fatah movement spokesman Jamal Nazzal expressed hope that European parliamentarians would exert pressure on their governments to take steps that would deter Israel from displacing Palestinians from their homes under various pretexts.
In their letter to the Foreign Secretary, British lawmakers have made it clear that evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, some of which have already taken place, are a violation of international law, and that it is Britain’s job to make sure they do not happen.
