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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on relations with the Palestinian Authority
Amendments (15)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the two-state solution, with the state of Israel and the state of Palestine living side by side, together in peace, security and mutual recognition under the 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps and Jerusalem as the capital of both states, is the only viable solution to the conflict;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas meaningful negotiations can only happen when two sides are on equal footing; whereas decades of occupation of Palestine and lack of international recognition are serious obstacles to fair negotiations;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas 30 years after the Oslo Accords the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian authority have fulfilled their commitments yet the Palestinian people's right to self- determination is still denied by the Israeli authorities;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the Israeli authorities systematically confiscate and demolish EU funded projects, assets and infrastructure in Palestine; whereas only in the first ten months on 2022 81 EU- funded structures worth over EUR 245,000 were demolished or seized;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas UNRWA continues to operate with chronic funding shortfalls that undermine its effort to fulfil its mandate, recently renewed by the international community;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas EU funding includes a multiannual contribution to UNRWA, whose workessential work for the development and the wellbeing of millions of Palestine refugees Parliament continually supports and advocates to be continued;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the Palestinian Authority does not have key competences which are at the core of statehood, including border control or full tax collection;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas despite the systematic breach of its Article 2, which conditions the agreement to the fulfilment of human rights' obligations, the EU continues to have an Association Agreement with Israel and allows for Israeli participation in EU funded programmes, including those related to the development of military and surveillance technology that perpetuates the occupation and/or those that are carried out in illegal Israeli settlements; whereas this contrasts with a lower level of engagement with the Palestinian Authority despite the mutually beneficial implications of increased cooperation;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) strongly call for East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be brought under one legitimate, democratic PA rule; facilitate political consensus and reconciliation among Palestinian political factions; commend international mediation efforts to reach agreement between different Palestinian political factions, regretting the lack of implication by the EU in these efforts up to date; stress the importance of democratic elections being respected by all parties involved;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(e a) promote a real engagement with all actors on the ground to promote an inclusive and democratic approach, and therefore remove the political wing of Palestinian political organisations participating in the country's institutions and political life from the EU list of external designated terrorist groups;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(g a) exert further pressure on the Israeli authorities to ensure the withdrawal of the six social and human rights' organisations designated as terrorist by the Israeli military authorities in order to further reduce the space for Palestinian civil society;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)
(g b) withdraw all current EU rules preventing Palestinian civil society or human rights' organisations from accessing EU funding because of criteria related to the political affiliation of individuals related to the organisations or the projects they implement;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(r a) (s) (new) support the efforts to end the impunity of the crimes committed in the context of the Israeli occupation in Palestine, including through active support of the ongoing investigations in the International Criminal Court;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) ensure continued and additional financial support to Palestinian refugees through UNRWA, including in 2023 as jointly agreed by the budgetary authority on the EU general budget, to meet the increasing needs on the ground;