Secretary General of the Executive Committee Saeb Erekat on Thursday called on the international community and its UN bodies to consolidate the independence and sovereignty of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, and urgent intervention to stop the daily and systematic aggression of occupation on the ground. For their crimes against civilians and to open an international investigation into the ICC.
This came in a statement on the 31st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which falls on Friday, and said: "The heinous massacre committed by the occupation authority against the family of Abu Malhous (Swarka), and killed 34 martyrs, including 8 children and 3 women, and wounded and wounded more than one hundred Palestinians Among them, more than fifty children and eleven women, is evidence of the immunity afforded by the international community to the occupying Power, rather than holding it accountable for its continuing crimes, banning its illegal colonial settlement products, and launching the United Nations database of companies complicit with the occupation as a preliminary path to deterrence. And c His occupation pays the price down to end it. "
Erekat deplored the incitement of the US administration and some countries in defending the aggression of the occupation, calling on these countries to align with supporting the chances of peace and human rights instead of turning against them and encouraging war crimes. It must lift the political, legal, military and financial cover of the colonial occupation as a real step to get rid of it and embody the sovereignty of Palestine on the basis of a two-state solution. "
Erekat pointed to the importance of this historic day in the lives of the Palestinian people and moving forward steadily towards consolidating it on the ground. He applauded the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in all places of existence, especially in occupied Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip and the camps of Syria and Lebanon, and paid tribute to the martyrs, prisoners and wounded.
He stressed the continuation of the struggle until the evacuation of the occupation, raising the Palestinian flag in Jerusalem and celebrating freedom, return and independence there.
