Excellency,
Just one day after the Security Council open debate on the “Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestine question” I am compelled to write to you again as Israel, the occupying Power, continues with its intentional killing and injuring of Palestinian civilian protesters in the Gaza Strip, demonstrating further its complete disregard for the rule of law, UN resolutions, and basic norms of morality.
For the fifth week in a row, unarmed, defenseless Palestinian civilians have taken part in the “Great March of Return”, a peaceful protest largely involving sit-ins, concerts, sports games, speeches and other peaceful activities. These protests, launched on 30 March and set to culminate on 15 May, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, are calling for right of return of Palestine refugees to their homes and towns, demanding an end to Israeli occupation, siege and dispossession, and calling for Palestinian independence and freedom.
The demonstrators are also protesting the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the unbearable conditions of life there, where 2 million Palestinians, the majority refugees, have been subjected, for over a decade, to an illegal Israeli land, sea and air blockade, that has vastly compounded the misery and suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people by five decades of Israeli military occupation since 1967 and seven decades of dispossession and denial of their right of return to their homes and ancestral lands since their ruthless uprooting in the Nakba of 1948. [Read more…]
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