Hawzah News Agency- Speaking at a press conference during his official visit to Indonesia, Barghouti said that Israel is committing three major war crimes in Gaza: genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the imposition of collective punishment, including starvation.
He stressed that the most dangerous of these is the effort to expel the population of Gaza from their homeland after driving them, through bloody bombardment, into what has become the largest detention camp in modern history in the south of the Strip.
Barghouti added that the Palestinian people are facing the most serious attempt to uproot them from their land since 1948, with Israel deploying multiple tools to achieve this goal, including relentless bombardment, deliberate starvation, and depriving civilians of medicine, water and electricity. He emphasised that so-called “humanitarian relocation” to certain countries, particularly those far away, is nothing more than a malicious pretext to prevent Palestinians from returning, as part of an integrated plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
He called on Indonesians, both leadership and people, to take four concrete steps:
1.Reject all forms of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, even if presented under a humanitarian guise.
2.Resist American and Israeli pressure aimed at dragging Indonesia towards normalisation, and maintain the firm and principled official and popular stance that supports the Palestinian people and rejects any ties with the occupation.
3.Advance the boycott and impose sanctions on Israel, and work with other countries to isolate it diplomatically and economically in order to stop its criminal aggression against the Palestinian people.
4.Support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land across all of Palestine, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza.
Barghouti expressed gratitude to the Indonesian Foreign Ministry and civil society organisations for their warm welcome and for organising the visit. He also visited the Palestinian Embassy in Jakarta, where he met the Ambassador of Palestine, Dr Zuhair Al-Shan, and thanked him for his reception.
In conclusion, Barghouti stressed that “the Indonesian people set a remarkable example in their unwavering solidarity with Palestine, a stance that dates back to the era of President Sukarno, when Palestine was among the first states to recognise Indonesia’s independence''.
Source: AL ARAB IN UK
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