Palestinians in the west coast the recognition of fear is not enough

In Ramala – the actual Palestinian capital of the occupied West Coast – many of the Western recognition of the Western recognition of the Palestinian statehood is too small, too late.

“I am really glad that there are people who can see our suffering in Palestine and understand the problems we are going through,” says the 23 -year -old Diya, who did not want to give her full name.

“But while recognition is important, what we really need are solutions.”

This city is home to government buildings, diplomatic missions and scattered Presidential Palace.

But for many Palestinians, the dream remains that Eastern Jerusalem – only a few miles to the south, but largely cut off by the Israeli parting barrier – can become their capital under a bilateral solution that would create an independent Palestine on the West Coast and the Gaza Strip.

This is with that objective that the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra and Monaco announced an official recognition of Palestine in the state UN General Assembly in New York This week.

“The recognition is positive after all this time,” says the 40 -year -old Kamal Daud on a lively Ramalah Street. “But without international pressure it will not be enough.”

“If the confession comes without giving us our rights,” he says. “Then it’s nothing more than a paper ink.”

Israel has identified the western movement “Terrorism Award”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated on Sunday “there will be no Palestinian state” – while the ultra -nationalists in their ruling coalition went further, repeating the calls for Israel to annex directly on the west coast.

“The only answer,” writes the far right minister of finance, has been scammed, is “the removal of the stupid idea of ​​a Palestinian country from the agenda forever.”

The United Kingdom and Germany say they have warned Israel against annexation, while UN Secretary -General Antonio Guteres told the conference on Monday that it would be “moral, legal and politically intolerable.”

Israel has built about 160 settlements accommodated 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Coast and East Jerusalem during the Middle East war in 1967. Approximately 3.3 million Palestinians live with them. Permissions are illegal under international law.

Almost two years after the attack, led by Hamas against southern Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed and saw that 251 took hostages, triggering the war in Gaza, Israel tightened its control over the west coast.

It is aimed at pockets of armed Palestinian resistance in refugee camps in the north, performing major military operations and large -scale destruction of buildings, displacing many people from their homes.

Hundreds of new Israeli military checkpoints appeared up and down the territory, often accompanied by sudden road closure. Palestinians say short trips can now continue for hours.

The Palestinian Power (PA), which governs parts of the territory not under Israeli control, is placed under a long -term economic siege, with Israel retaining the tax revenue it needs to pay teachers and police. The salaries are half and some employees ordered to work only two days a week.

The Jewish settlers have accumulated attacks on Palestinians and have established dozens of new advancements without the permission of the Israel government.

And at the same time the Israeli government began a great impetus to settlement, including the huge E1 project Near Jerusalem, which would build 3,400 settlers homes. Right groups say this would effectively divide the West Bank into two, destroying the hopes of a neighboring Palestinian state.

“Whoever is trying to recognize the Palestinian state today will receive our response on the spot,” said Smotrich, a settler who has control over the planning of the west coast last month. “Not with documents, no decisions or statements, but with facts. Facts of houses, facts from the neighborhoods.”

Previous visions for the decision of two countries included swaps on the ground. In 2008, then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert Tray During negotiations with BCP President Mahmoud Abbas, who will see that Israel gave control of 4.9% of its land in exchange for the same amount of Palestinian land on the west coast.

The plan has never agreed and 17 years later the settlements have spread so deep on the west coast that the Palestinians fear that the map has become too fragmented for a viable state.

As for gas, the devastation is huge. More than 65,000 Palestinians were killed during Israel’s military campaign, according to the Hamas Health Ministry and most of the 2.1 million population has been displaced.

The UN estimates that 92% of residential units have been damaged or destroyed, 91% of schools will require complete reconstruction or major rehabilitation and 86% of the crops are damaged. It is estimated that the reconstruction of the territory will cost more than 45 billion British pounds over the next 10 years.

“Everyone is tired, everyone is exhausted. Everyone is losing hope that the international community will influence the confirmation of recognition,” says Sabri Said, a senior member of Fatah, the largest faction of the BCP.

But does he still believe that the Palestinian state can arise?

“If I didn’t believe it, we wouldn’t put so much energy into recognition,” he says. “It’s time to convince the US administration that history has changed.”

This can be difficult. US State Department prohibit more than 80 Palestinian employees – including President Abbas – from the presence of the UN General Assembly this week, accusing them of “undermining the prospects for peace” by seeking “unilateral recognition of the Palestinian state’s assumption.”

For ordinary Palestinians like Diaa, the situation feels more and more dark. “People think the national dream is almost impossible,” he says.