Al-Shalla to SadaNews: The Palestinian and Jordanian authorities must find solutions to the issue at the Karama crossing

SadaNews - Amjad Al-Shalla, the Secretary General of the Lawyers' Association, stated that the ongoing suffering faced by the Palestinian citizen, reaching the point of humiliation at the Karama crossing, is a continuous crime and legal violations, whether under international public law or even under local or national laws.

Al-Shalla added in a statement to "SadaNews," "These crimes or violations begin with the unjustified congestion and crowding, a clear and explicit violation of international law, which explicitly states the human right to move, travel, and pass without any obstacles, barriers, or hindrances, while fully preserving their personal rights, freedom, and dignity, and criminalizing any infringement on them. International law considers preventing a person from traveling or moving to be a crime of international law, as it undermines a fundamental right protected by international and national laws."

He continued, "There are crimes committed at the crossing that are punishable under Jordanian criminal law in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The same applies to Penal Law No. 16 of 1960, which is applicable here, in holding accountable those involved in bribery. The Palestinian citizen, through their travel, is forced to pay unjustified sums of money for which there is no legal basis for payment. Under what item are these amounts paid? Furthermore, at times, a Palestinian is also subjected to extortion, and sometimes to verbal abuse and defamation. All these are crimes that Palestinians are exposed to when traveling through the Karama crossing."

Al-Shalla sent a message to the Palestinian people, urging them on popular, elite, union, and student levels to begin campaigns and pressure at official levels to find solutions, emphasizing that the role of official institutions is to find solutions and remedies and to end crises, not to merely diagnose or analyze them or stop at merely making contacts or correspondence. He affirmed that the Palestinian government must take its responsibilities seriously and be committed to ending this crisis and finding the necessary remedies and solutions.

He stated, "We are the Palestinian people, a people of dignity, and no one should belittle our dignity or demean it. We are well aware that the root cause of the crisis is the occupation and its government, which seeks to disrupt our daily lives and complicate the Palestinian everyday life for objectives including facilitating displacement, as targeting and humiliation occur upon the arrival or return of a traveler to their homeland."

He confirmed that the Jordanian government must also intervene and exercise its authority to confront this Israeli arrogance and haughtiness that humiliates both the Jordanian and Palestinian governments and puts them in embarrassing situations before their peoples.