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Ivan Zhakata Herald Correspondent
ISRAELI settler terrorism against Palestinian civilians in more than 10 villages in the West Bank has reached unprecedented levels under the protection of the occupation army in violation of international law, Ambassador of Palestine to Zimbabwe, Dr Tamer Almassri, has said.
Amb Almassri said Israeli militias were obtaining encouragement and political support in the practice of their terrorism acts through the supply of weapons, protection and immunity provided by the extremist government to execute a premeditated plan of gradual annexation of the West Bank thereby undermining the opportunity to realise the Palestinian statehood.
He said the international community should urgently intervene to force the Israeli government to stop all its settlement activities, dismantle armed colonialist militias, remove their weapons, stop their financing and punish those who support them.
“The attacks are an extension of Israel’s open aggression against the Palestinian people in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” Amb Almassri said.
“The state of Palestine demands the imposition of binding international sanctions on the entire colonial settlement system, considering it illegal and illegitimate. Armed settlers and the Israeli army have killed 470 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023, while displacing hundreds of people from their lands.
“The International Criminal Court should quickly issue arrest warrants against the colonialists and those behind them who commit crimes against the Palestinians and bring them to international justice. The state of Palestine stress the necessity to ensure the immediate and comprehensive cessation of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem.”
The death toll in Gaza has reached 35 000, over 8 000 under the rubble and 76 000 injured.
The Zimbabwe Palestine Solidarity Council (ZPCS) has also condemned the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
“We reiterate our position that Israel is a terror state and we applaud the gallant and heroic efforts of South Africa for taking Israel to ICJ,” said ZPCS chairperson Cde Kwanisai Mafa.
“The international community has failed the state of Palestine. Israel is continuing to butcher innocent women and children despite the ICJ ruling to put a stop to the genocide.
“Western Europe and the US are complicity in this genocide by aiding Israel financially, diplomatically and militarily. Western Europe’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is morally bankrupt and unpopular.”
Cde Mafa said they call upon the Arab world and all the progressive forces to provide humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians.
“We call upon the progressive world to escalate our solidarity and support for the people of Palestine. We are very much surprised by the Western media who are silent about the ongoing genocide.
“Palestinians must not relent in their struggle for social justice, they must continue to defy Israel on all fronts. We demand the end of these atrocities now,” Cde Mafa said.
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