Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh.
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja –
The Palestine Embassy in Nigeria has issued a distress call to the United Nations, the international community, and human rights organizations to intervene immediately to stop the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
The Embassy urged the international community to take concrete actions to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and to provide protection to the Palestinian people.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Embassy condemned the escalating violence and atrocities committed by Israeli forces, which have resulted in the killing of over 37,925 Palestinians, including women and children, and the injury of 87,141 others.
“As of Monday July 2nd, the toll of Israel’s aggression has surpassed 37,925 Palestinians killed, and 87,141 injured. The Palestinian Ministry of Education declared that the number of students martyred in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli aggression surpassed 8,572, while those injured reached 14,089.
“In occupied West Bank, 100 students were martyred and 494 others were injured, in addition to 349 arrested. 497 teachers and administrators were martyred and 3,402 were injured in Gaza and the West Bank”, it said.
While calling for an end to the siege on Gaza, which has turned the territory into a “hell on earth”, the embassy, further, condemned the complicity of the United States in the conflict, citing significant arms transfers to Israel.
It said: “Between the war’s start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions…”
“The United States is not only complicit, but waging the war against the Palestinian people.
It further urged the international community to pressure Israel to disclose the fate of detainees and allow access to humanitarian organizations.
“The total number of detainees in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is 9,450, with 320 women, 650 children, and 84 journalists, 51 of whom are still in detention.
“We reiterate our call to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention to intervene urgently and put pressure on Israel to disclose the fate of all these detainees and allow the Red Cross and lawyers to visit them and learn about their conditions”, the embassy said.
