"Egyptian Foreign Affairs" He renews his demand for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages in the Gaza Strip
The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs renewed its demand for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and the guarantee of humanitarian access to Gaza, in accordance with Security Council Resolution No. 2728 of March 25, 2024, and the United Nations General Assembly Resolution of October 27, 2023.< /p>
The Council expressed, in a statement today (Wednesday), its denunciation of Israeli intransigence in insisting on launching a ground attack on the city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, where more than 85% of the Palestinians took refuge. The displaced residents of the Gaza Strip are fleeing the occupation forces’ massacres of innocent civilians and besieging them in inhuman and degrading conditions to force them to leave their lands, which constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.
The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs affirmed its absolute and complete support. The resolutions of international legitimacy regarding the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967, including East Jerusalem, the complete withdrawal of the occupying state from those lands, the return of Palestinian refugees to their usurped lands, and their compensation in accordance with General Assembly Resolution No. 194 of 1949.
The Council appreciated the tireless diplomatic efforts made by Egypt, in cooperation with other sisterly Arab countries, and at the international level, in cooperation with the relevant agencies within the framework of the United Nations system, with the aim of reaching an immediate and complete ceasefire and ensuring the protection of civilians in accordance with the rules of international humanitarian law, and raising All restrictions preventing the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
In a related context, the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs expressed its full solidarity and support for Ms. Francesca Albanese, the independent United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Against the backdrop of the accusations that it faced by some countries, in connection with its report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” which it submitted on the twenty-sixth of last March to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, at its fifty-fifth session, in which it stated that there are reasonable reasons To believe that the crime of genocide has been committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinians in Gaza, since October 7, 2023… noting that “the threshold indicating that Israel has committed genocide has been reached,” after analyzing Israel’s actions and patterns of violence in its attack on Gaza. Which, according to her, was supported by rhetoric that dehumanized Palestinians by high-ranking Israeli officials and which was often reflected in the actions of soldiers on the ground.
In this context, the Council praised the report of the UN rapporteur, and what It was characterized by its integrity, objectivity and independence, which underscores the important role played by independent experts in the field of human rights delegated by the United Nations. To report and provide advice on specific topics and crises.
The Council stressed that Ms Albanese’s "objective" It is the same position taken by all conscientious peoples in relation to the Israeli massacres committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip along with the other usurped Palestinian territories, which claimed the lives of more than 32 thousand innocent civilians, most of whom were women and children, and thousands of missing persons, and which at the same time violate all laws and customs. international law, including the United Nations Charter, the provisions of international humanitarian law as well as the decision of the International Court of Justice issued on January 26, which obliges Israel to refrain from taking any steps that would incite the displacement of Palestinians from their lands or any acts of genocide and other prohibited activities. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, as well as its resolution issued on March 29, which orders Israel to take all necessary and effective measures without delay to ensure the unhindered flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to avoid famine.
The Council noted what the report proved that the leadership Israeli operational, military and military personnel deliberately distorted the basic rules of international humanitarian law: distinction (between military and civilian targets), proportionality (in military response) and precautionary measures; In an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
The Council highlighted what the report stated that Israel committed three acts of genocide: causing serious physical or psychological harm to members of a group of people, which constituted collective trauma. For the people of Gaza and will be experienced by generations to come; Deliberately imposing living conditions on the group with the aim of its physical destruction, in whole or in part; And impose measures aimed at preventing births within the group while violent anti-Palestinian rhetoric, which portrays the entire Palestinian people in Gaza as enemies who must be eliminated and forcibly removed, spreads throughout all segments of Israeli society.
The report pointed out that the genocide it is committing Israel’s right to the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalation phase of a long-term settler-colonial erasure of Palestinians that, over more than 70 years, has contributed to the strangling of “the Palestinians as a people – demographically, culturally, economically and politically – and crushed their inalienable right to self-determination in an attempt to displace them, confiscate their lands and control them.” “.
The Council expressed its strong support for the Special Rapporteur’s call for states to ensure that Israel and third countries comply with their obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as well as the need to “stop the ongoing Nakba and address it once and for all.”
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