Threats to cause another Nakba for Palestinians

An unidentified group, believed to be an extreme right-wing Jewish underground organization, threatened the Palestinians living in Israel with another catastrophe if they continue their support to their fellow Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

The group sent a letter to Ibrahim Nimer Hussein, head of the Arab Supreme Follow-up Committee, threatening severe actions if the committee's call to boycott products from Jewish settlements gets off the ground. "If Arab masses and their leaders in the country resume this approach, they should prepare for an upcoming Nakba, and the Israeli identity cards will not help them," read the letter Hussein received.

Hussein, also mayor of Shafa Amr in the Galilee, was one of the key figures who initiated the idea of boycotting products from Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. The goal of the campaign, apart from extending moral support to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, was to force Jewish settlers to reconsider their presence in the West Bank and Gaza.

According to the Palestinians, Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories form one of the major stumbling blocks that threaten to torpedo any talks on the permanent status of the Palestinian territories.