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Commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on The African Union website

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Also speaking during the event was Amb. Salah Sahboon, Ambassador of Arab League to Ethiopia and the AU who emphasized the need to embody firm historical commitment of Africa for the liberation of Palestine underlining the importance of collective responsibility in order to protect and promote the Palestinian Peoples’ full rights. He strongly condemned Israeli occupation in the land of Palestinians, the systematic crimes of Israel genocide

Continue reading at https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20161201-0

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Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, at the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 367th meeting at the United Nations General Assembly

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Today we are commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at a time when Israel’s contempt for international law and humanitarian law has exceeded all possible bounds, trampling on every international resolution, charter and rule. It has set little store by international public opinion in perpetrating massacres and atrocities against Palestinian civilians in its most recent attack on Gaza. These crimes are classified as war crimes and genocide, with 2,000 victims, 95 per cent of whom were women, children and elderly people. Ninety-one families have disappeared; 59 residential buildings, 145 public schools and 75 community schools have been destroyed — such schools being refuges for those who have had to flee their homes.

Continue reading at https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-209025/

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Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemns Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza

The Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Muslim world, denounced an ongoing Israeli onslaught in the Gaza Strip as an “act of genocide against the armless Palestinian people”.

In a Saturday statement, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb condemned Israel’s “heinous crimes” in the Gaza Strip and urged the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation as well as the United Nations to “immediately act to stop this aggression.”

Continue reading at http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/140551/egypts-al-azhar-condemns-israels-genocide-in-gaza

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