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Palestinian Ambassador in Azerbaijan issues statement on recent developments

Nasir Abdul Karim, the Ambassador of the of Palestine in Azerbaijan

13 October 2023 18:23 (UTC +04:00)

Ambassador of Palestine to Azerbaijan Nasir Abdul Karim has issued a statement regarding the recent developments, APA reports.

"Watching a heartbreaking tragedy recurring in repetitive appalling familiarity, except this time was the first when the penetrating immeasurable pain was shared on both sides. We are against targeting civilians by whoever and mourn all the lost innocent lives everywhere. And we know Palestinian innocent lives have been at the receiving end for decades and as precious as any other," the diplomat said.

Ambassador said that, carpet bombing, wiping out neighborhoods, the biggest open-air prison in the world where people caged for seventeen years under wretched conditions, an act of collective punishment and, according to international law is a war crime.

Touching upon the history of the conflict, Nasir Abdul Karim emphasized in his statement that since 1967, Israel has been the enforcer of the lengthiest military occupation in human history with all the ruthless paraphernalia of an apartheid regime.

"Against all relentless Israeli crimes that run against a plethora of hundreds of UN resolutions and International Humanitarian Laws, we have not heard the same outrage and sanctimonious grandstanding from world powers.

The opposite, they bankrolled Israel’s ruthless system of colonial apartheid with all the political, diplomatic, and military cover, the tools needed to maintain this perverse inhumane situation with total political impunity. However, the irony is these same powers give lip service to the two-state solution but refuse to recognize the occupied State of Palestine in contrast to the UN and more than two-thirds of the planet, a substantive and symbolic gesture whose only implication is to give impetus to a moribund peace process.

The Palestinian leadership, well-known commitment to peaceful resolution, has been warning for years that the status quo is unsustainable in the absence of any political horizon, as all peaceful avenues to achieve a just peace are blocked by Israel. A recipe for the continuation of this perennial conflict and the inevitable outbursts of violence it would entail.

The ongoing, tragic situation could have been avoided, and thousands of lives could have been saved by ending Israel's apartheid regime through accountability and enforcement of the related UN resolutions. The Palestinian people, whose lives are of no less value than the Israelis, deserve and have all the right to live in dignity in their independent state with East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its capital, to live in peace on par with all peoples.

The genuine address for peace is Palestine, not geopolitical somersaults," the diplomat emphasized.