Arabs urge end to Gaza aggression --- KUNA

CAIRO: The Arab Parliament on Saturday called on the international community to intervene immediately and halt Zionist aggression on Gaza and stop coercive displacement of the Palestinians and secure entry of aid into the beleaguered strip. Marking the 48th Land Day anniversary, the Arab Parliament demanded that the international community and the influential stakeholders shoulder their political, legal and moral responsibilities, reject and condemn the occupation entity’s settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. It urged for a final settlement to the question by ending the occupation of all Palestinian territories, establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, allowing return of the Palestinians in diaspora and resolve the refugee plight. The Arab Parliament denounced the settlement policies, carried out by the Zionist occupation entity in the occupied Palestinian territories, that contravene the international legitimacy resolutions and affirmed the illegitimacy of all forms of settlement activities in all the territories including Jerusalem. The ongoing aggression on Gaza and the abhorrent siege of the strip aim at eliminating the identity of a whole people, it said. This anniversary has fallen while the Palestinian people in Gaza continue to be subjected, since October 7, to genocide, coercive displacement, massacres and full-fledged war crimes that have taken thousands of innocent lives. Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry welcomed Friday the International Court of Justice new order which included additional provisional measures to address the Zionist occupation violations of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Ministry said that the ICJ new measures came within the framework of lawsuit filed by the Republic of South Africa concerning the Zionist occupation violations in the Gaza Strip of obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. — KUNA

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