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UAE condemns continuous Israeli attacks on Gaza

Lebanese Lawmakers Voice Solidarity with Gaza, Mosul, Reject Extremism

OMAN supports Palestinian cause at Human Rights Council meet




Lebanese Lawmakers Voice Solidarity with Gaza, Mosul, Reject Extremism

A parliament session was held on Saturday in order to express Lebanon's solidarity with the Palestinian Gaza Strip and the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The session was chaired by Speaker Nabih Berri and attended by the majority of political blocs.

The lawmakers voiced their compassion with the plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza and minorities in Iraq that are being persecuted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun kicked off the session by condemning the developments in Gaza and Iraq.

“All minorities in Mosul are being subject to genocide,” he remarked.

“We don't know what is happening in the region due to all of the chaos raging in it,” he added.

“We do not question Israel's bloody actions, but we wonder that ISIL's actions in Syria and Mosul are equal to them,” noted the MP.

“We question the silence of the Arab world over the crimes against the Christians,” he said.

Mustaqbal bloc chief MP Fouad Saniora remarked that Mosul would not be witnessing such oppression had Iraq had a just state.

“A just state protects its people,” he stressed, while saying that the moderate people in the region are victims of extremists.

“Dictatorship created extremism. The people's struggle to escape barrel bombs landed them in the hands of fundamentalists,” he said in reference to the crisis in Syria.

“We have no choice but to adhere to the state in order to shun fundamentalists and militias,” Saniora urged.

To that end, he stressed that the Taef Accord that helped Lebanon achieve coexistence between its sects should be adopted in the region.

“The accord is the basis of a diverse state,” he said of the agreement that helped end Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

“We see a need for its implementation in order to confront rising fundamentalism, including Israel's threat,” added the MP.

“Just states must be established in order to meet the demands of the people and avoid oppressing them, which will only wield extremism,” Saniora continued.

Moreover, he remarked: “Christians and Muslims must cooperate to confront fundamentalism because falling victim to it will make us prey to dictators.”

“Arab countries must unite to confront extremism,” he said, while lamenting the Arab and international communities' failure in addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The conflict is at the heart of the problems in the region, noted Saniora.

There are no excuses that justify the persecution of Christians and Muslims, he stated.

“We reject all forms of violence and fundamentalism because they violate the core of moderate Islam and ISIL has nothing to do with historic or modern Islam,” added the head of the Mustaqbal bloc.

Speaking on behalf of Hizbullah's Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, MP Ali Fayyad asked: “What use are words in the face of the brutality in Gaza and Mosul?”

“The violence in Gaza proves that the choice of resistance is the best way to confront the enemy,” he stated.

“Israel will not succeed in defeating the dignity of the people,” he stressed.

“The takfiri threat of ISIL meanwhile wants to fragment the region,” Fayyad said.

“All Arabs, regardless of their differences, must unite against Israel and ISIL,” he demanded.

Berri concluded the session by demanding on behalf of parliament that Israel end its blockade against Gaza, release Palestinian prisoners, and end its campaign.

“Israeli officials should be tried as war criminals for their violations in the Palestinian territories,” he declared.

Addressing the situation in Mosul, the speaker said: “The parliament condemns the persecution of minorities.”

“It calls for effective international action to confront the injustice in Iraq,” he continued.

“It also demands a fair trial of the takfiri war criminals who are tarnishing the image of coexistence in the East,” said Berri, while urging “immediate international action to avert the spread of ISIL's crimes.”

Hundreds of Christian families fled their homes in Mosul after the jihadist Islamic State threatened them to convert to Islam, pay a special tax or leave.

At least 900 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli campaign against Gaza.

OMAN supports Palestinian cause at Human Rights Council meet

24th, July 2014

GENEVA — The Sultanate of Oman participated in the Special Session of the Human Rights Council at Geneva yesterday.

The delegation was led by Ambassador Abdullah bin Nasser Al Rahbi, at United Nations Headquarters in Geneva.

About the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Sultanate’s delegation, pointed out the importance of this meeting, which comes at the time when there is a dangerous erosion in human values.

The Sultanate also strongly condemned the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army, and called upon all violations and crimes to end immediately.

It also wanted the to prosecute the perpetrators to ensure there is no impunity.

The statement also called upon urgent establishment of international protection to the Palestinian territories and lifting the siege on Gaza strip.

UAE condemns continuous Israeli attacks on Gaza

25 July 2014

UAE condemns continuous air bombardments of civilians and properties as a “collective punishment’ that breaches the international law.

The United Arab Emirates condemned the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, which killed more than 750 civilians, wounded 4,000 people, mostly women and children, left many homeless and damaged properties.

“The continuous of Israeli attacks on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the policy of revenge and oppression practiced by Israel against the Palestinian people represent a flagrant violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, and international laws and norms,” said Saeed Rashid Al Habsi, acting charge d’ affaires of the UAE Permanent Mission at the UN and other International Organisations, in a statement before the Human Rights Council’s Special Session on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Al Habsi affirmed that these violations provide a clear testimony to Israel’s refusal of the peace process.

He condemned continuous air bombardments of civilians and properties as a “collective punishment’ that breaches the international law. He said that targeting medical teams and aid workers is a crime mounted to international crimes.

The UAE, he said, demanded the international community and the UN Human Rights Council to shoulder their full responsibilities towards the Palestinian people and demand the occupying power to immediately cease its offensive and hold it’s accountable for all human casualties the Palestinian people suffered due to this inhumane aggression.

The UAE also called for supporting the Egyptian initiative for ceasefire and urged regional and international parties to accept it and to create a permanent atmosphere for a sustained truce.

The UAE also called the government and international organisations and non-governmental organisations to deliver urgent humanitarian assistance and services to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

In this context, he said, the UAE government in coordination with UNRWA is running an air bridge to relieve displaced families in Gaza. Additionally, the Emirates Red Crescent has signed a cooperation agreement with UNRWA to build and rebuild Gaza in the tune of US$ 41 million. The UAE has also set up a field hospital to provide medical care to the wounded in Gaza.

The UAE demanded the UN Human Rights Council and the international community to provide immediate protection for the Palestinian people including East Jerusalem in consistence with the UN Charter, international law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

The UAE. also demanded the dispatch of an independent, international commission of inquiry for the Occupied Palestinian Territory to investigate all violations committed by Israel of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law.


 














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