This year’s World Quds Day is commemorated under circumstances in which we are witness to one of the biggest cases of murder and genocide in history. The deep humanitarian catastrophe of the past six months in Palestine and particularly in Gaza manifests another painful and unfortunate side of the historical breach of the rights of the oppressed but steadfast Palestinians in an occupied territory in violation of international law. It is also a manifestation of the open imposition of force and coercion against the original and authentic inhabitants of Palestine by an illegitimate and impermanent Israeli regime.
Palestinian women, men and children are being slaughtered by Israeli criminals; hospitals, medical and relief centres, mosques and churches are also not spared from the evil of this fake regime.
There has been continued genocide and perpetration of various types of war crimes in the Gaza Strip, the mass murder of more than 33,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, in just six months, alongside repeated prevention by the Israeli regime of the delivery of humanitarian aid, food and medicine to the entire Gaza Strip, and the use by the regime of hunger as a weapon against the Gaza residents, aimed at displacing them to Sinai and Jordan lands.
It is now crystal clear to all that one of the dangerous objectives of the Israeli regime in imposing a full blockade on the Gaza Strip and preventing the delivery of urgent humanitarian assistance to its residents is to create conditions for the social and civil collapse of Gaza and eliminating all signs of life as well as the historical and civilizational identity of Palestine.
Today it is incumbent to show to the international community, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court that there is an ongoing genocide and mass murder in Gaza by the Zionist regime. We have conducted extensive consultations at international forums with the UN secretary general and the International Committee of the Red Cross for humanitarian cooperation as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to emphasise the necessity of the cessation of hostility and delivery of food and medicine. The secretary general of the UN and the president of the ICRC have taken important steps but due to the full alignment of the White House and some other Western governments with the Israeli regime, such humanitarian efforts have not yielded appropriate results so far. On the other hand, the Islamic Cooperation Organization was expected to mobilise its various political and economic capacities and tools of pressure to stop the war but despite various meetings, this organidation has failed to play an effective and expected role in this respect.
We remain hopeful that urgent humanitarian aid will be sent to Gaza to save its oppressed people from starvation and famine before the end of the holy month of Ramazan. We also hope that with the blessing of this holy month, we will see stronger regional, Muslim, and international unity and global efforts to support the oppressed Palestinian nation more effectively than ever and serious, effective and deterrent regional and international measures are taken to end continued brutality of the apartheid and terrorist Zionist regime against the Palestinians.
