Janet Samuel, Abuja
The Palestinian presidency has condemned in totality, the US moves accusing it of giving additional green light to Israel to continue its genocidal war in Gaza, saying human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
It stressed that the policy has made the United States a partner in the crime of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
Thia was as the Palestinian envoy to Nigeria Abdullahi Shawesh congratulated all the African people for convening the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa and its successful conclusion. Saying, In its final outcome document, the AU adopted a declaration on the situation in Palestine and the Middle East.
Shawesh, while speaking with Newsman in Abuja on the 139 days of Israel genocidal war against Palestinians, lamented that truma is dominant in the entire society, and the people are completely desperate and moving with no hope. Noting that in all of this, the world still begs the Israeli Occupation for mercy.
“The Biden administration is preparing to send bombs and other weapons to Israel that would add to its military arsenal, …according to current and former U.S. officials. The proposed arms delivery includes roughly a thousand each of bombs, Joint Direct Attack Munitions and bomb fuses, the officials said. The arms are estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. If this is not complicity then what is the complicity? He said”.
He said “In the Occupied Gaza Strip, about 17,000 children being completely orphaned having no known relatives around them, adding that the number of martyrs has risen to 29,410 and 69,465 wounded since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th.
“Thousands of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, as the occupation army prevents ambulances and civil defense crews from reaching them.
“As part of its ongoing war on the basic necessities of life, the Israeli occupation has completely destroyed 42,000 meters of water pipes, 40 wells, and 9 water tanks, and has also destroyed about one million square meters of roads, according to the Gaza Municipality.”
The envoy bemoan that, over 9000 Palestinians detainees in the Israeli prisons have been subjected to unprecedented retaliatory and punitive measures since October 7th.
Under the title “Is it time for a bold international intervention to uncover the secret detention centers that were established after October 7th?” According to him, the head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority,Qaddora Fares sent an appeal to the international community, urging it to break its silence and take immediate action to uncover the secret prisons and detention centers.
“In the Occupied West Bank, 7170 Palestinian detainees have been held since October 7 up to today, including 215 women, 430 children, 52 journalists, and 3574 administrative detainees. There are no accurate numbers for the detainees in Gaza, and there is little information about them’.
The government of Palestine calledl on the International committee of the Red cross ICRC to uphold its mandated duties in accordance with international law and visit the Israeli prisons and detention centers to verify the inhumane and miserable situation that the prisoners are subjected to.
“In his speech before the AU summit in Addis Ababa on Saturday, February 17, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said, and I quote, “let your voice be loud to stop the Israeli aggression and colonies. the African Union (AU) was right when it prevented Israel from being an observer state in the Union, and prevented the infiltration of its representatives into this forum last year… Israel is an apartheid state and a state of racial discrimination in law and practice….…. Israel is killing out of revenge after 134 days of its brutal aggression, and wants to continue for as long as possible to serve Netanyahu’s position as prime minister, and this must not be allowed…. Today, the world is required to recognize the State of Palestine, a state on the borders of June 4, 196”
Dr. Shtayyeh “called for placing the entire colonies project under international sanctions, by boycotting settlement products and boycotting settlement institutions and settlers, pointing out the importance of completing what some countries did by placing a number of settlers on terrorist lists.”
