KAMPALA: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Malki has emphasized the horrific situation in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli war of genocide on Gaza enters its 106th day.
Addressing the Non-Aligned Movement conference in Kampala, Uganda, al-Maliki said 106 days have passed since Israel began its campaign of mass slaughter, deliberate starvation, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
He pointed out that international system has failed to assume its legal responsibilities regarding the situation in Gaza, which allowed the genocide to continue and undermined the viability of international system.
“The international system has consistently failed to assume its responsibilities under international law and the UN Charter”, he added. “This epic failure has allowed the genocide in Gaza to continue and has undermined in strategic ways the very viability and relevance of the international system and international law.”
He said that in over 100 days, Israeli warplanes killed hu
ndreds of civilians, including 10,000 children, and nearly 10,000 people are still buried under the rubble, mostly women and children.
The Foreign Minister added that Israeli fighter jets have further massively destroyed over 70% of homes and buildings in Gaza and displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians, half of them children, he added.
Israel also killed over 115 journalists, nearly 350 health professionals, and hundreds of university professors, artists, engineers, and other professionals in the same period, he added. In this period, Israel deliberately used starvation and deprivation of water as a weapon of war, and now 4 out of 5 of the hungriest people in the world are in Gaza; there are pockets of famine in Gaza; and children are dying of dehydration, malnutrition, and hypothermia.
Meanwhile, “Israeli occupation forces are also wreaking death, destruction, and brutality at unprecedented proportions in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem while the Israeli government is choking the Palestinian
economy and forcibly displacing hundreds of Palestinian civilians.”
He said these atrocities are happening at a time when “Israeli forces abduct thousands of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, torture, humiliate, and starve them, and subject them to unspeakable mental, physical, and even sexual abuse. These horrific abominations are done live with total impunity.”
“Israel creates more destruction than the allied forces did in Dresden over 3 years; to kill more journalists than all those killed in World War II and other destructive wars that lasted years,” he said.
FM Maliki praised the unprecedented South Africa’s genocide case against Israel before the ICJ. “South Africa had the moral clarity and courage to stand up for humanity and defend our endangered international system.”
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA