CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) – Permanent Representative of Palestine to the Arab League Ambassador Muhannad al Aklouk said that Egypt’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza aim at protecting the Palestinian cause.
In an interview with AlQahera news on Saturday, Aklouk said the situation in Palestine represents a continuation of the crime of genocide for more than nine months.
It is a crime of ethnic cleansing that has continued for more than eight decades, he added.
Today, the Gaza Strip is witnessing a complete crime of genocide, stressing that the world’s utter silence on Israel’s crimes has made it a brutal extermination force.
Israel dropped 90,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, destroying nearly 75 percent of all forms of life in the Strip, he added.
There are more than 150,000 Palestinians who were killed, wounded, or missing under the rubble, he said.
Using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip killed more than 50 Palestinians, in addition to 21,000 Palestinian prisoners, who are being tortured in the Israeli occupation prisons, he added.
Shifting to efforts of Palestinian diplomacy to push forward the negotiations to reach a ceasefire, he said Palestine is making efforts through the AL and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and its presence in the African Union and the United Nations to reveal Israel’s malicious goals.
He added: “We are awaiting the court’s ruling.”
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials, he elaborated, adding Palestine’s independence is a central goal of the Arab League. (MENA)
