CAIRO _ Palestine News Network
CAIRO - The Arab League on Wednesday commemorated World Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, stressing the centrality of the Palestinian cause and full support and solidarity with the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle for freedom and independence and the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state with its capital Jerusalem.
The event was attended by Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, a representative of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, a representative of Al-Azhar, a representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories Ambassador Said Abu Ali, a number of Arab League secretaries and ambassadors And foreigners accredited in Egypt.
In his speech at the opening session, the Secretary-General said that this day we remember the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and their natural rights to exercise self-determination and to establish their independent State with East Jerusalem as its capital. We are also sending a message to the international community and its free peoples to remind them of their responsibilities and obligations in the maintenance of international legitimacy and the protection of the principles of law and international order. The Palestinian issue - It is a major test of the fairness of the existing international order and its commitment to law and legitimacy.
He added that the anniversary of the international solidarity with the Palestinian people is passing through us this year, at a time when the Palestinian issue is facing unprecedented threats. The US administration continues to insist on a number of biased positions and unjust resolutions that are about to destroy any opportunity to implement the two-state solution Acceptable or reasonable alternative.
The Secretary-General said that the United States had sought over the past year to change the parameters of the two-state solution and to undermine its resolve to withdraw the issues of Jerusalem and refugees from the negotiating table by transferring its embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing it as the capital of Israel. The various countries of the world were quick to declare their adherence to the legal authorities and the decisions of international legitimacy in the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Jerusalem in December last year and then many friendly countries have sought, and all thanks to, and To estimate to bridge the financing gap in the budget of UNRWA schools in order to remain Mhavera open to millions of refugees.
There is no alternative to ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Hence, on the day of solidarity with the Palestinian people, he appealed to this limited number of countries, Its officials and politicians speak from time to time about the possibility of transferring their embassies to Jerusalem, such as Brazil, the Czech Republic and Australia, to tell them that this step is contrary to international law and cause great harm to these countries in the Arab public opinion. More different And its levels, as well as being a step does not help to achieve the desired peace but to deepen the enmity and hatred.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation reached an unprecedented level of violation of the basic principles of international humanitarian law until it adopted, without shame, a complete system of apartheid, which was not ashamed to make it a law of "nationalism" which ignores the rights of more than 2 million Palestinians Palestinian internalization, restricting the right of self-determination to Jews alone, in addition to the schemes of judaizing Jerusalem and emptying its inhabitants of the siege and displacement, and tightening the settlement system in the West Bank expansion and consolidation to live the Palestinians inside isolated cantons reminiscent of the worst systems of isolation and apartheid that are outdated, Humanity.
The Secretary-General said that the silence of the world on these daily crimes is a real disgrace, and what recent international companies have seen from the serious approach to boycotting investment and working in the settlements is the least that can be done to reject this inhuman reality and to deny it. And the recent Arab summit has taken Jerusalem as its title and will not decide the fate of the Palestinians, but they must unite their words through a serious and responsible engagement in reconciliation that will end this division that has damaged the issue and its image.
He stressed that this day renews our confidence in the justice of the issue and the steadfastness of those who carry its banner and the more the occupation continues in oppression and oppression, the more the Palestinians are firmly rooted in the land, adhering to the right and defending the cause.
For his part, Ambassador of the Sudan to the Arab Republic of Egypt and its Permanent Representative to the Arab League, "President of the current session of the Council of the University," Abdelmahmoud Abdel Halim, said that the Palestinian issue has undergone many turns in continuous attempts to absent the status of this issue, but the Palestinian people has increased determination despite its suffering and steadfast belief in faith And will not relent.
He stressed that there is a need for effective action to achieve a lasting, just and comprehensive peace that enables the people of Palestine to exercise their right to self-determination and to establish their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, as the existence of the Palestinian cause is not conducive to regional and international peace.
The Sudanese ambassador stressed the need for the international community to shoulder its responsibilities to provide international protection to the Palestinian people and to stop the Israeli massacres which bear the full legal and criminal responsibility of the Israeli government. We reiterate our condemnation of the Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people. The Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities not only to the justice of the Palestinian people, to restore the rights of its people and to enforce its resolutions relating to the protection of defenseless Palestinian civilians and the need to enforce the UN resolution on the protection of civilians in Palestine The process of forming a mechanism for effective implementation of what came in General Assembly resolution and the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
For his part, the Palestinian Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt and its Permanent Representative to the Arab League, Diab Al-Louh, said that we are meeting today at the Arab House in Egypt, the heart of Arabism, the main sponsor of the Palestinian cause, which we call a people, leadership and government.
He added that the revival of this occasion is an opportunity to remind the world that it still has a historical, political, legal, moral and humanitarian responsibility for the Nakba that has afflicted the Palestinian people since 1948 and the effective intervention to set a time limit for the end of the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine occupied in 1967 ), In particular East Jerusalem, and to compel Israel, the occupying Power, to implement all relevant resolutions of international legitimacy relating to the question of Palestine and the rest of the occupied Arab territories.
He stressed that the right approach to building comprehensive and comprehensive peace, establishing security and stability, spreading prosperity and establishing normal relations between countries and peoples in the region is to end the Israeli occupation of the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories and enable the Palestinian people to enjoy their freedom and exercise their right of return. And the establishment of an independent, geographically and fully sovereign State with East Jerusalem as its capital. President Mahmoud Abbas also affirmed that we are ready to engage in serious negotiations on the basis of the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy, the principle of land for peace, Arab peace, the two-state solution and the vision of President Mahmoud Abbas presented to the Security Council last February under international auspices and in accordance with a multilateral mechanism within the framework of an international peace conference, according to a specific timetable.
Ambassador Al-Louh added that the 70 years and more than half a century of Israeli occupation have been repeated in the Nakba, and the most horrible crimes are being committed by the occupation authorities and forces. The most blatant racist practices against our defenseless people throughout Palestine are the Judaization of Jerusalem, Islamic and Christian sanctities, The destruction of the West Bank and the siege of the Gaza Strip, the deliberate killing, extrajudicial executions, the destruction and demolition of houses, the arrest of more than 6,000 Palestinians, including women, children, the elderly, the sick, the wounded and the administrative without trial, The construction of settlements, the construction of walls of annexation and racist isolation, the construction of bypass roads and sterile roads, the enactment of racist laws such as the law of Jewish nationalism and the imposition of high taxes, and the confiscation of land, the uprooting of trees, To Judaize The land and the discharge of its legitimate people in violation of and blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the most basic rules of international law and international humanitarian law and resolutions of international legitimacy, to pass the political solutions lean, rejected by the Palestinian people before, and will continue to struggle and the struggle to prevent the passage, the Palestinian people with its legendary steadfastness and sacrifices, Arab and Islamic and free world, able to move forward on the path of freedom and liberation until the establishment of an independent state, stressing what President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly affirmed that there is no political settlement without Jerusalem, and not a capital in Jerusalem but Jerusalem is the And we will not accept any political plan that does not explicitly include the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967, nor a state in Gaza or a state without Gaza, and we reject the state with temporary borders and the transitional solutions and no settlement without a just solution to the Palestinian refugee issue More than 5,400.
Ambassador Al-Louh also thanked Palestine, the President, the Government, the people and the people of Egypt for their patronage of the Palestinian national reconciliation and the Egyptian efforts to end the Palestinian division and restore Palestinian national unity to put the Palestinian reality on the threshold of a new phase of unity and partnership. From President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
For his part, Director of the Palestinian Sector in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Khaled Radhi, stressed that Egypt called on all Palestinian factions to adhere to what has been achieved so far in ending the division and national reconciliation, demanding the commitment of what was agreed upon for the benefit of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. To give priority to the national interest and to lay the horizon for the future of a strong political life.
Radhi renewed his country´s position that the Palestinian issue is the top priority of its foreign policy in order to achieve the dream of all Palestinians and Arabs in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967 with Jerusalem as its capital, stressing that this represents a constant of the national constants Under international law.
The International Day of Solidarity with Palestine is an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine has not yet been resolved and that the suffering of the Palestinian people has been going on for seven decades and that it has not yet The right to self-determination without external interference, the right to national independence and sovereignty, the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes of displacement and to live in dignity, freedom and tranquility.
The United Nations marks this day with special importance, as it represents an opportunity to reaffirm its firm position that a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question must be achieved and an end to the plight of the Palestinian people and to highlight the efforts of the United Nations and its international partners to help And support for the Palestinian people, and the latest positive results of these efforts were revealed by the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Pierre Krinbol on 20 of this month, that the aid pledged or pledged by the donors, amounted to 425 million dollars to reduce the Agency´s financial deficit to 21 million after it was More than 250 million m Since 1977, the United Nations has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November each year, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions on the question of Palestine.
For his part, the representative of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, assistant professor at the Faculty of Sharia and Law at Al-Azhar University, Ahmed Sharqawi, said that Al-Azhar and all Muslims in the East and Morocco confirm their support for the Palestinian cause and our brothers in Palestine and help them in all international forums.
For his part, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, Pastor Abdel-Masih Mikheil, affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to sovereignty over their lands and homeland and to enable their state and government to lead a national national movement towards progress and prosperity, stressing the need to reach a just, comprehensive and final solution. Restores the right to its owners.
The ceremony included a documentary about the Palestinian cause and a technical exhibition that embodies the suffering of the Palestinian people under the occupation of a number of Arab painters and artists.
The ceremony was attended by Ambassador Al-Louh, his wife Sahar Abu Haseira, the Alternate Ambassador to the Arab League Muhannad Al-Akluk, the Advisor Tamer Al-Tayeb, the Advisor Jumana Al-Ghoul, a number of the Palestine Embassy and the Palestinian Delegation in the Arab League.
