…Insists on proper application of International law and convention
…Says Palestine is ever ready for a two-States solution
The Palestine Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Abu Shawesh has bemoaned the continous exhibition of double standards by the Western countries led by United States, and especially President Joe Biden, in its handling of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war.
Speaking at a world press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, Shawesh explained that the Tuesday bombing of Baptist Hospital in Gaza, where 500 Palestinians were killed and the attempt by Israel and United States to shift blame to Hamas is the height of double standards and deception.
“Several days ago, Israel called for the evacuation of Gaza’s hospitals, it is a call that was completely rejected by the hospitals staff, as it is a call for the slow killing of sick and injured patients, who are receiving health services. Before the end of yesterday, Tuesday, October 17, around 5:30 pm (Jerusalem time), Israeli occupation war aircrafts bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which is a very old Christian hospital, in which dozens of displaced families had taken shelter, because they believed that this hospital side by side with the church are a safe haven, and completely immune from military attacks, in accordance with international law.
“The death toll of the Palestinians in this massacre has so far reached about 500 people, the majority of them are women and children, in addition to several hundreds wounded.
“Yesterday, immediately after this horrific attack, the designated digital spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, Hanania Naftali published a tweet that Israel had bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, later on, he deleted his tweet.”
The envoy further revealed that since last Saturday October 7, the death toll on the Palestinian side has risen to more than 3000 (three thousạnds), 2/3 of them are children and women.
He added that more than a thousand Palestinians are still missing under the rubble.
He also berated the West on its double standards: “The West, led by the United States of America, which did not stop lecturing and preaching about international law and human rights law, and which did not stop providing unconditional and unequivocal support to the Israeli occupation, did not condemn the Israeli attack on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, and these countries, in many Western media outlets are waging a dirty war against the Palestinian people by broadcasting and distributing dozens of false and fake news, with the aim of portraying the Palestinians as murderers, thugs and inferior subhuman beings in a re-engineering of the global consciousness towards full acceptance of the Israeli genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people currently underway.
“All the talk of Western leaders about protecting Palestinian civilians is an empty talk, lip services, and no more than throwing ash in the eyes.”
Ambassador Abdallah Abu Shawesh also accused the West of hypocrisy and double standards, “the hypocrisy, and the full support and sponsorship of many Palestinian people from Gaza to Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, is a crystal-clear attempt by Western countries to encourage Israel to implement its old plans of expelling the Palestinians to repeat the ethnic cleansing that the Palestinians were subjected to in 1948.”
“International law must be respected, especially international humanitarian law and human rights law. There should be no exception or impunity for Israel, and it should not be above the law. It is time for the international community to stand firm and united in support of the international law. For everyone around the world should, raise their voices loudly at this historical juncture. If not you, then who?”