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Mon 15 May 2023 12:23 pm - Jerusalem Time

Shtayyeh calls for stopping the exclusion of "Israel" from the enforcement of international law and holding it accountable

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on states, governments, international bodies and courts to stop excluding Israel from the enforcement of international and humanitarian law, and to hold it accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity that it continues to commit against the Palestinian people for the eighth consecutive decade.


This came during the cabinet session entitled "The Return Session", today, Monday, which was held in Ramallah, as it coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.


Shtayyeh said: "The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, will ascend the United Nations platform, where, for the first time, the painful memory will be commemorated in the international body, and his sovereignty will present, on behalf of 14 million Palestinians, an account of the narration of the original land owners, victims of the Nakba in 1948, and refute the false and false Israeli narration." .


He pointed out that the Nakba is a crime that extends over 75 years, and our people are still paying the bill of aggression from their blood and living flesh, and we are continuing to struggle to recover their rights, and to thwart the expansionist Zionist colonial project.


He added, "Our people are still offering martyrs and blood throughout the homeland, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which is the victims of the barbaric Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which left 33 martyrs, including children, women, and the elderly, and hundreds of wounded and homeless people who were demolished." their homes and lost their homes.


And he continued: "On the seventy-fifth anniversary, our people proved that even if the adults died, the young ones do not forget, and after 75 years of the Nakba, we still believe and fight for the right of return. Return is an inherent right of our refugee people in all parts of the earth."


He said, "The time has come for the global conscience to awaken, and to start lifting the historical injustice that the Zionist movement and the international system inflicted on the Palestinian people. In the words of 14 million Palestinians, we say that we have been subjected to the largest massacre, the greatest injustice, and the largest theft and expropriation of property and property."


He pointed out that the United Nations had established a database for the property of Palestinian refugees, detailing the dispossession suffered by the Palestinian people, and documenting the property of every Palestinian. Copies of this database are available in some countries, but the original copy is deposited with the United Nations.


Shtayyeh addressed the world, saying: "A right has not been lost, behind which there are demands, and that every Palestinian has the right to demand verification of his property, and to file cases before international courts to restore their rights, while continuing our struggle to achieve the collective right of our people wherever they are."


He called for the need to unify all the forces of liberation, justice, peace, and equality in Palestine and in the world to confront colonialism, settlement, exploitation, injustice and racial discrimination wherever it may be.


Shtayyeh stressed that our people are struggling to end the Israeli occupation, and to embody the Palestinian state with sovereignty over its capabilities, with viable parties, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of return for refugees.


The Council of Ministers, in partnership with the Supreme National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba, announced many activities that are launched today in the homeland and all over the world.

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