Safadi also stressed the need to stop the killing and destruction, undermine the prospects for peace, and violate international law, international humanitarian law and European values. “Let us look at the number of humanitarian workers who have been killed, the largest number in any conflict the world has seen in decades, the number of journalists who have been killed, the number of women and children who have been killed and amputated, and children left without parents to take care of them, in the middle of an entire region reduced to rubble, where there is no electricity, water or functioning hospitals, this is the reality that we must speak against very effectively, and we must take immediate action to ensure that it stops, and stops now, because with every day it goes on, everything in us changes, that’s the reality we have to face.”
“There is no alternative to the two-state solution; the only alternative is more war, the other alternative is apartheid, which is what we see now in the occupied Palestinia
n territories, and we should not allow ethnic cleansing to happen, we should not allow genocide to happen,” Safadi concluded.
In a joint press conference with Borrell, Albares, and UfM Secretary General Nasser Kamel, Safadi said ‘the UfM was born out of the Barcelona Process to contribute to peace, stability and a better future for our peoples.”
“But we meet today while Israel is killing peace, undermining stability and making the future full of conflicts and wars because it continues to kill children and bury mothers under the rubble of their homes. When we gathered here last year, Israel killed about 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and today we are meeting with the number of Palestinians who died as a result of Israeli aggression exceeding 43,000 in an inhumane aggression on Gaza. Innocent people are killed, in addition to more than ten thousand buried under the rubble of their homes, schools and hospitals,” Safadi added.
Safadi referred to the meeting of the Israeli Knesset today and the two draft laws tha
t was palced on its agenda to prevent the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from operating, which confirms that a member state of the United Nations defies the will of the international community and works to prevent an organization established by the United Nations General Assembly by the will of the international community in what “represents a precedent that cannot and should not pass without an effective international response, not only to protect the children of Palestine who will starve if UNRWA does not provide them with aid and the children of Palestine who will not find schools to go to if UNRWA does not open its schools that Israel has destroyed the vast majority of them; but also to protect what remains of the credibility of the United Nations, international law and international humanitarian law. Will the world accept that Israel defies its will in this blatant way and closes down an organization created by the international community? If it does that, let us admit that there will be
no credibility left for all international laws, for all international humanitarian laws, and for any talk about the necessity of applying international law to everyone without exception and without discrimination.”
Source: Jordan News Agency