Baghdad -The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Adel Al-Asoumi, condemned the state of international silence towards the daily crimes committed by the occupying power in the Gaza Strip, describing this silence as “a disgrace on the forehead of the international community.”
Al-Asoumi affirmed in his speech before the 147th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, hosted by Luanda, the capital of Angola: “The people of Palestine have suffered, and are still suffering, for more than seventy-five years, from all forms of injustice, persecution, killing, arrest, and abuse, in order to obtain their most basic rights to establish their Independent state, and is currently being exposed to the worst forms of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and forced displacement at the hands of the brutal occupying force.”
He sent several messages to the international community, organizations concerned with human rights, and countries that support the crimes of the occupation, saying, “Where are you when it comes to killing children, women, and the elderly in your sight and hearing? Where are you when it comes to destroying residential buildings, cutting off water, electricity, and services, and preventing the entry of aid to civilians in Palestine? Where are you from the state terrorism practiced by the brutal occupying force, and its deliberate targeting of a hospital housing patients, children, and women? Your silence is not neutrality, but rather participation in these crimes, and a shame on you, which history will record and hold you accountable for.”
Al-Asoumi called on the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to issue an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire and lift the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip, hold the occupation fully responsible for terrorist crimes against civilians, and hold their perpetrators accountable as war criminals.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency