RAMALLAH: President Mahmoud Abbas stated tonight that the Israeli occupation has been stealing our resources and water for decades, depriving the Palestinian people of their right to water. He said this year’s World Water Day comes at a time when our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are experiencing, unlike anything the world has seen before, the worst inhumane crimes of the occupation.
The President, speaking on the occassion of World Water Day, said that these Israeli crimes have resulted in the killing of thousands of innocent people, the majority of whom are children, women, and the elderly. He added that the majority of our people in Gaza have been displaced, as the Israeli war machine has completely destroyed entire neighborhoods, buildings, homes, and even shelters and hospitals.
President Abbas pointed out that there are more than 1.3 million displaced Palestinian in Rafah today, threatened, not knowing where the next displacement will be.
He stressed that the Israeli occupation government did
not stop there but decided and openly declared from the first day of this savage aggression to halt all basic services, foremost among them water, and to prevent humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
The President called on the international community to assume its responsibilities to immediately stop this brutal aggression against our people and ensure the entry of medical supplies, food, and necessary supplies to provide water, electricity, and fuel to the Gaza Strip, prevent the displacement of our Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.
He also called for urgent international protection to the Palestinian people, and called for achieving justice through accountability and prosecution. The President rejected the division of the Gaza Strip or its reduction in size, or the redeployment of the occupation army within the Gaza Strip.
President Abbas called on the international community, the free and just world, to stand with our Palestinian people and their just rights, and to force the
occupation to stop its crimes against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, and to work to find an inclusive solution to end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA