UMAT AkhirZAMAN: EU perlukan Penjelasan dpd Israel Sepanjang pergelutan Diplomat . . .

N.nizah – EU memerlukan Penjelasan daripada Israel Sepanjang pergelutan Diplomat. Diplomat Eropah yang memegang Israel sebagai yang bertanggungjawab ke atas insiden di mana askar IDF menyerang konvoi kemanusiaan EU di Tebing Barat pada hari Jumaat. Setakat ini Tel Aviv telah meninggalkan skandal dalam limbo, tiada menawarkan sebarang penjelasan rasmi bagi kejadian itu.

Diplomat dari beberapa negara EU telah bercakap menentang kejadian mengejutkan mengganggu orang dengan kekebalan diplomatik, jelas menunggu beberapa jenis tindak balas rasmi dari negeri Israel.

Selepas gambar membimbangkan diplomat Perancis, Marion Fesneau-Castaing, tersebar di atas tanah dengan tentera IDF berdiri di sekeliling hit berita antarabangsa beliau, skandal banyak yang dirampas bantuan EU kepada Badwi tempat tinggal dari kampung dirobohkan di Tebing Barat telah mendapat momentum.

EU calls for Explanations from Israel over Diplomat Scuffle

European diplomats are holding Israel accountable over an incident where IDF servicemen attacked a EU humanitarian convoy in the West Bank on Friday. So far Tel Aviv has left the scandal in limbo, offering no official explanation for the incident.

Diplomats from several EU countries have spoken out against the shocking incident of harassing a person with diplomatic immunity, clearly awaiting some sort of official reaction from the state of Israel.

After disturbing photos of the French diplomat, Marion Fesneau-Castaing, spread on the ground with IDF soldiers standing around her hit international news, the scandal over hijacked EU aid to homeless Bedouins from demolished villages in the West Bank has gained momentum.

Diplomat Perancis Marion Fesneau-Castaing (tengah) diletakkan di atas tanah selepas dia diseret keluar oleh tentera Israel dari sebuah trak sarat dengan bekalan pada 20 September 2013 bagi jalan menuju ke kampung Tebing Barat Khirbet Al ‘Makhul. (AFP Photo – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

“Wakil-wakil EU telah menghubungi pihak berkuasa Israel untuk menuntut penjelasan dan menyuarakan kebimbangan mereka pada kejadian itu,” kata kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh jurucakap bagi dasar luar EU, Catherine Ashton dan Pesuruhjaya Bantuan Kemanusiaan, Kristalina Georgieva.

Seorang pegawai EU menyifatkan tindakan Israel sebagai “mengejutkan dan keterlaluan”, BBC melaporkan.

British Konsulat Jeneral di Jerusalem adalah “bimbang dengan laporan bahawa pihak tentera Israel telah menghalang masyarakat yang terjejas daripada menerima bantuan kemanusiaan,” kata jurucakap itu konsulat.

“Kami telah berulang kali buat yang jelas kepada pihak berkuasa Israel kebimbangan kami ke atas perobohan itu, yang kami lihat sebagai menyebabkan penderitaan kepada rakyat biasa Palestin, seperti yang berbahaya kepada proses damai dan bertentangan dengan undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa,” kata jurucakap itu.

Pihak berkuasa Israel harus “hidup sehingga tanggungjawab mereka sebagai kuasa penjajah untuk melindungi mereka masyarakat di bawah tanggungjawab mereka,” kata Kemanusiaan Penyelaras PBB James Rawley.

‘Haram Aktiviti Diplomatik’

Jurucakap Kementerian Luar Israel, Paul Hirschson, telah mengancam untuk membuat aduan terhadap tindakan Marion Fesneau - Castaing itu, Agence France- Presse melaporkan.

“Jika dia menyertai maka aduan rasmi akan difailkan kerana itu bukan cara diplomat bertindak,” katanya. Pada hari Sabtu duta EU di Israel dipanggil Kementerian Luar Timbalan Ketua Pengarah bagi Eropah, Rafi Shutz, menuntut penjelasan mengenai IDF di Tebing Barat pada hari Jumaat.

“Apa yang dilakukan di sana oleh diplomat Eropah adalah provokasi ,” kata Shutz seperti yang dipetik oleh Haaretz. Encik Shutz mendakwa bahawa kekerasan terhadap diplomat Perancis wanita telah digunakan kerana dia menampar salah seorang askar. Beliau juga mengumumkan bahawa negara Israel sedang mengkaji dakwaan bahawa diplomat asing “menyalahgunakan keistimewaan diplomatik mereka”.

Kerana pembinaan Palestin di tapak bekas Khirbet kampung Al ‘Makhul diperintah haram oleh mahkamah Israel, diplomat Eropah telah terlibat dalam aktiviti haram, Shutz dinyatakan. Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa bantuan kemanusiaan kepada rakyat Palestin hendaklah dihantar melalui saluran yang betul, diselaraskan dengan Israel.

IDF menjelaskan penggunaan bom menyebabkan pengsan semasa kejadian itu, mendakwa bahawa batu-batu telah dilemparkan kepada pasukan keselamatan. Bom yang membisingkan dibuang terus ke dalam sekumpulan diplomat Eropah, pekerja bantuan dan penduduk tempatan yang cuba untuk menghantar bantuan kecemasan kepada penduduk di sebuah perkampungan Palestin yang dirobohkan, Reuters melaporkan .

Pada hari Jumaat sebuah trak dengan EU bantuan kemanusiaan untuk penduduk yang dirobohkan Khirbet Al ‘Makhul penyelesaian telah diserang oleh IDF kakitangan, yang merampas trak dan muatan. Diplomat Perancis Marion Fesneau - Castaing, yang cuba untuk mencegah perampasan bantuan, ditarik keluar dari trak dan dipaksa untuk ke tanah. Insiden itu mendapat liputan antarabangsa yang luas.

Tentera Israel membawa diplomat Perancis Marion Castaing selepas mengeluarkan beliau dari trak yang mengandungi bantuan kecemasan itu, di Tebing Barat penggembala komuniti Khirbet Al ‘Makhul, di Jordan Valley September 20, 2013. (Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

“EU representatives have already contacted the Israeli authorities to demand an explanation and expressed their concern at the incident,” says a statement issued by the spokesmen for EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva.

An EU official described the Israeli actions as “shocking and outrageous”, the BBC reported.

The British Consulate General in Jerusalem is “concerned at reports that the Israeli military authorities have prevented the affected community from receiving humanitarian assistance,” the consulate’s spokesman said.

“We have repeatedly made clear to the Israeli authorities our concerns over such demolitions, which we view as causing unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians, as harmful to the peace process and contrary to international humanitarian law,” the spokesman added.

The Israeli authorities should “live up to their obligations as occupying power to protect those communities under their responsibility,” the UN Humanitarian Coordinator James Rawley said.

‘Illegal diplomatic activity’

The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Paul Hirschson, has threatened to lodge a complaint over Marion Fesneau-Castaing’s actions, Agence France-Presse reported.

“If she did participate then a formal complaint will be filed because that is not the way diplomats behave,” he said. On Saturday the EU ambassador in Israel called the Foreign Ministry Deputy Director-General for Europe, Rafi Shutz, demanding explanations regarding the IDF in the West Bank on Friday.

“What was done there by the European diplomats was a provocation,” said Shutz as quoted by the Haaretz. Mr Shutz claimed that force against the female French diplomat was used because she slapped one of the soldiers. He also announced that the state of Israel is looking into allegations that foreign diplomats “abused their diplomatic privileges”.

Because Palestinian construction at the site of former Khirbet Al-Makhul village was ruled illegal by an Israeli court, the European diplomats were engaging in illegal activity, Shutz stated. He also pointed out that humanitarian aid to Palestinians should be delivered through the proper channels, coordinated with Israel.

The IDF explained the use of stun grenades during the incident, claiming that stones were thrown at security forces. Stun grenades were thrown directly into a group of European diplomats, aid workers and locals who were trying to deliver emergency aid to the residents of a demolished Palestinian village, Reuters reported.

On Friday a truck with EU humanitarian aid for the villagers of the demolished Khirbet Al-Makhul settlement was attacked by IDF personnel, who confiscated the truck and the payload. French diplomat Marion Fesneau-Castaing, who attempted to prevent confiscation of the aid, was pulled out of the truck and forced to the ground. The incident received wide international coverage.

(Foto fail) lelaki Badwi Palestin bertindak balas di tengah-tengah runtuhan struktur selepas ia telah dibakar oleh tentera Israel di kampung Tebing Barat Zayem, berhampiran Jerusalem (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli - berfikir IN gambar (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Rumah, kandang dan sebuah tadika di kampung Khirbet Al ‘Makhul telah dirobohkan pada hari Isnin selepas keputusan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Israel, yang memutuskan bahawa penduduk kampung mempunyai permit bangunan haram. Penduduk enggan meninggalkan runtuhan mengatakan bahawa mereka telah hidup di tanah ini generasi.

Kejadian rampasan sebuah trak membawa bantuan kemanusiaan telah menjadi lagi laman lain di barisan antara Brussels dan Tel Aviv. Pada bulan Julai, EU mengumumkan bahawa ia akan menghentikan semua bantuan kewangan kepada pertubuhan-pertubuhan Israel beroperasi di wilayah yang diduduki, bermula dari 2014.

Kerajaan Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu memberi reaksi marah, mengecam langkah itu sebagai campur tangan dalam hubungan Israel-Palestin dan membalas dengan menyekat EU bantuan kemanusiaan kepada berpuluh-puluh ribu rakyat Palestin di Tebing Barat.

Israel dan Autonomi Palestin kekal di dalam rundingan damai sia-sia, dengan blok utama penghalang yang pembinaan berterusan penempatan Yahudi di Tebing Barat dan Jerusalem Timur, diduduki sejak 1967 Timur Tengah perang.

Houses, stables and a kindergarten at Khirbet Al ‘Makhul village were demolished on Monday after a decision by Israel's High Court, which ruled that villagers had illegal building permits. The villagers refused to leave the ruins saying they have been living on that land for generations.

The seizure incident of a truck carrying humanitarian aid has become yet another page in the row between Brussels and Tel Aviv. In July the EU announced it is going to stop all financial assistance to Israeli organizations operating in the occupied territories, starting from 2014.

The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted angrily, denouncing the move as interference in Israel-Palestine relations and retaliated by blocking EU humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel and the Palestinian Autonomy remain in fruitless peace talks, with the major stumbling block being the ongoing construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, occupied since the 1967 Middle East war.