BREAKING : ICJ STATEMENT OF PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Sulaiman Ahmed

@ShaykhSulaiman
BREAKING: ICJ STATEMENT OF PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

“I stand before you as 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, are besieged and bombed, killed and maimed, starved and displaced.”

“As more than 3.5 million Palestinians in West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are subjected to colonisation of their territory and the racist violence that enables it.”

“As 1.7 million Palestinians in Israel are treated as second-class citizens … in their ancestral land.”

“As seven million Palestine refugees continue to be denied the right to return to their land and homes.”

“Palestine was not a land without a people. There was life on this land, political, cultural, social and religious.
It had schools, universities, cinemas, families and communities whose lives were impacted by a promise made thousands of miles away over a hundred years ago.

A breach of sacred trust that relegated the indigenous people of the land to the status of non-Jewish communities.

According (the Palestinian people), only civil and religious rights, denying their existence as a people and their rights as a nation.

The UN enshrined in its charter the right of all peoples to self-determination and pledges to rid the world of colonialism and apartheid. Yet, for decades Palestinians have been denied this right.