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Dr. Uri Davis, the Deputy Commissioner-General of the Palestine National Liberation Movement “Fatch” International Relations Commission has called for an immediate end to attacks and territorial occupation of Palestine by Israel.
Speaking to Spiked Online Media ahead of the inaugural War Veterans League Conference to be held at the Harare International Conference Centre in Harare from 9 to 10 October 2022 where Zimbabwe’s liberators will elect their leadership for the next four years, Dr. Uri said his organisation shares the same political ideology and aspirations with this southern African nation and called on Israel to immediately end its occupation of Palestine.
“I call on the apartheid Israeli settler regime to immediately cease its aggressive attacks on Palestine and stop its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. We have for a long time yearned for independence and peace. I personally call on super-powers with veto power in the United Nations Security Council to negotiate a peace deal between Israel and Palestine that is long overdue. Regrettably, the United States is on the side of Palestine in blatant violation of human rights principles.
“As an organisation, we share the same values and principles with the war veterans of Zimbabwe and believe in national sovereignty as espoused by liberation war heroes like the late President Robert Mugabe and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,” Dr. Uri said.
Traditionally, the UN General Assembly called for the observation of the International Day of solidarity with the People of Palestine to mark the anniversary of resolution 181 of 1947, which adopted the partition plan of Palestine into 2 States.
Dr. Davis said the State of Israel was declared on the same basis, yet Palestine is still waiting for its independence. He said the Palestinian people have the right to realise their national aspirations, including the right to live in freedom, dignity, and prosperity in their independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, including a just solution for the Palestinian refugees which constitute nearly half of the Palestinian people (6/13 million) and the biggest refugee population around the world, in line with the relevant UN resolutions.
He said Palestine has endured more than 50 years of Israeli occupation – the longest military occupation in modern history, and more than 100 years since the disastrous Balfour Declaration of 1917, the promise given by those who didn’t have the right of ownership to those who didn’t have the right of appropriation, denying the very fundamental rights of the indigenous people of Palestine which at that time constituted around 95% of its inhabitants.
Over twenty-four years have passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords, an interim agreement that set a five-year period for bringing an end to the Israeli occupation on the basis of UNSC resolutions 242 and 338, granting hope to the Palestinian people that they would soon achieve independence within their State and achieve just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
Kifa Harb Halqader, a member of Fatah Revolutionary Council from Palestine who is in the country to witness the elective council of war veterans, bemoaned the fact that Palestinians continue to suffer from the injustice and indignity of Israel’s illegal occupation.
She said it is regrettable that Israel persists in its torment and collective punishment of the Palestinian people, with its arrests and imprisonment, its colonization of the land, settlement activities advancing at 4 times the rate of the previous year alone, and theft of land and demolition of Palestinian homes and properties, building the segregation wall and establishing over 630 checkpoints and roadblocks, forcibly displacing thousands.