  {"id":187919,"date":"1982-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=187919"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:19:42","slug":"auto-insert-187919","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-187919\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Lebanon\/OPT\/Settlements, deaths &#8211; Letter from CEIRPP Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:30px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">GENERAL ASSEMBLY<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>SECURITY COUNCIL<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Thirty-seventh session<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>Thirty-seventh year<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Item 31 of the provisional agenda*<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">QUESTION OF PALESTINE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Letter dated 14 September 1982 from the Chairman of the Committee<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<u>on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<u>People addressed to the Secretary-General<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In my capacity as Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, while observing with satisfaction that an end has been put to the Israeli aggression at Beirut which, as is known, claimed many victims, I regret that I must once more emphasize the Committee&#39;s concern at the most recent reports received from the illegally occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, which tend to show that the violence of the Israeli aggression has scarcely been reduced.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">According to <u>The New York Times<\/u>&nbsp;of 6 September 1982, the Israeli Government has allocated the sum of $18.5 million for the construction of three new settlements on the illegally occupied West Bank and announced that it would authorize the establishment of seven others.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">The 10 new settlements approved by the Israeli Government would raise to 109 the number of settlements on the West Bank and in Gaza, all of them built in flagrant violation of the fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 and of the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, in particular Council <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/5AA254A1C8F8B1CB852560E50075D7D5.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">resolution 465 (1980)<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Moreover, according to <u>The Washington Post<\/u>&nbsp;of 8 September 1982, the Israeli frontier police have shot and killed a young Arab 16 years of age near the town of Tulkarm on the West Bank. The same newspaper also reports the death of another young Arab, 18 years of age, shot by the Israeli frontier police at Nablus, on the West Bank, on 3 September 1982.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;On behalf of the Committee, I reaffirm once more that appropriate vigorous measures should be taken without delay to protect the rights of the Palestinians living in the occupied territories.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">I should be grateful if you would have the text of this letter circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under item 31 of the provisional agenda, and of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"46%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"54%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(Signed) Massamba SARRE<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Chairman of the Committee<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;of the Palestinian People<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:20px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Note<\/u>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:20px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 75,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>No.&nbsp;973, p. 287.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:25px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">________<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">*<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>A\/37\/150<strong>.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">82-24405 4039f (E)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY COUNCIL Thirty-seventh session Thirty-seventh year Item 31 of the provisional agenda* QUESTION OF PALESTINE &nbsp; 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