Twenty-Five Congressmen Condemn Israel for Committing War Crimes in Palestinian Territories, Jerusalem

Twenty-five US Congressmen have sent a message to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urging him to put Israel under diplomatic pressure to prevent it from transferring Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Al-Quds (known in Israeli  and Western sources as Jerusalem)

The signing Congressmen considered the Israeli practices as "war crimes".

They added that they wrote that message to express their deep concern at Israel's plan to evacuate more than 2000 Palestinians from the neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Boustan in Al-Quds.

The message indicates that Israel demolished 100 buildings at Al-Boustan where reside about 1550   Palestinians despite 60% of the population are children.

The Israeli authorities also seek to clear the Palestinians to construct a Talmudic park on the ruins of the Palestinians.

The US Congressmen's message pointed out that Israel is preparing for evacuating 12 Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah to replace them illegally with Jewish settlers.

Sheikh Jarrah's families comprise 169 members among them, 46 children.

However,  Ihan Omar, a US Congresswoman, considered the Israeli airstrikes on civilians in the Gaza Strip as a terrorist act.

She tweeted days ago that the Palestinians deserve international protection.

She went on to say that missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians.

Omar added that it’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid.

It is worth noting that the   Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization specialized in monitoring the status of human rights across the world, said that the brutality of the Israeli occupation against the  Palestinian protesters in the eastern part of Jerusalem springs of a methodical practice of excessive force and escaping punishment related to tremendous abuses.

Omar Shaker, Director-General of HRW in Israel and Palestine, said that the occupying forces seek to suppress protests and to crush attempts to face the apartheid policies of Israel.