A global declaration signed by figures from around the world warned that the ongoing “atrocities” in the Gaza Strip represent a moral challenge to the entire world, while at the same time rejecting the policy of “turning a blind eye to heinous crimes against humanity” against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The list of the first signatories to the statement included more than 100 figures from around the world, including leaders of countries and governments, former ministers, winners of prominent international awards, Muslim scholars, church leaders, thinkers, writers, writers, and artists from several countries.

The declaration said, "We witness, with sorrow and anger, terrible atrocities targeting more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are children and women. This represents a moral challenge to the entire world that calls for urgent humanitarian vigilance and a strict initial review."

The public figures who signed the declaration issued in eight languages affirmed their refusal to “turn a blind eye to the heinous crimes against humanity taking place against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which take the character of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

It denounced in the strongest terms the continued military, political and propaganda support it received from international powers.

Serious imbalances

The declaration indicated that these developments revealed that the world is suffering from grave imbalances, a worsening moral crisis, an intractable value dilemma, and misleading propaganda practices, warning of the consequences that result from the absence of charters and laws and the overthrow of international law and international humanitarian law on world peace and the interests of peoples.

It stressed that "supporting military occupation, policies of oppression and persecution, campaigns of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes with narratives that invoke morals, principles, and humanity is a misleading packaging that uses the moral, principled, and humanitarian slogan as a tool for killing, oppression, and persecution."

The signatories of the declaration pointed out that “the ongoing terrible aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has caused people and masses around the world to lose whatever confidence they have in the ethics of the international system, in the work of international criminal justice, and in the effectiveness of values, principles, charters, and slogans in reality.”

The figures said, "It is a source of horror that international, political, and media platforms celebrate speeches devoted to justifying aggression, glorifying its perpetrators, blaming its victims, and holding them responsible for their horrific fate of killing, crushing, thirst, starvation, and displacement."

The signatories believed that “what is happening in Palestine brings to mind horrific chapters from the memory of the colonial era. This confirms the importance of opening the files of colonialism, prosecuting it morally and in principle, and drawing necessary lessons from it for the present and the future.”

Monopoly on truth

The signatories to the Universal Declaration warned against the approach of monopolizing the truth, confiscating values and principles, operating them selectively according to the interests of international powers, and imposing a unilateral narrative on the world based on bias, arrogance, neglect, and justification.

The Universal Declaration warned that “succumbing to rhetoric justifying genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes heard from international, cultural, and media platforms represents a threat to all of humanity, not to the Palestinian people alone.”

The figures warned that "our world lacks a moral accountability authority that stands in the face of arrogance, power, violation of charters and laws, policies of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and persecution."

The Universal Declaration urged pioneers of philosophy, thought, culture, literature, and art, and leaders of religious and civil societies to fulfill their principled and moral role in achieving rights, justice, freedom, and human dignity in Palestine and everywhere, and in confronting injustice, oppression, persecution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and racist policies.

The Universal Declaration concluded that “a world that determines its position on atrocities and violations according to the identity of the perpetrator and the identity of the victim is a world in which there is no safety, no rights, and no justice, and its countries and armies will not hesitate to kill some people, to enable some policies that put their interests ahead of their declared commitments,” as stated in it. .

Source: Al Jazeera