Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Cairo, SANA- What is happening in occupied Palestine today is the result of decades of colonial occupation and aggressive practices, and the Palestinian people are exercising their legitimate right to defend themselves, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad said.
Mikdad’s remarks came in Syria’s statement during the emergency meeting of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level at the League’s headquarters in Cairo.
The occupation’s practices and its threat to wipe Gaza off earth, and the expansion of its crimes in the region are doomed to failure, and the Arabs today have a duty and responsibility to provide support to the Palestinian people.
Mikdad noted that Syria welcomes holding this emergency meeting which aims to discuss Arab and international action in confronting the fascist crimes and massacres committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza, relentlessly, with declared and unashamed support from the collective West, on top of which the US.
He added that recent days have revealed the falsity, lies, and collective hypocrisy of the West and its claims related to human rights and international humanitarian law, or what it now claims about a rules-based world.
The Foreign Minister wondered: Who is the Arab country that does not suffer as a result of the West’s collective interference in its internal affairs, and in the lives of its people, its economy, its beliefs, and its moral values.
We are living today in a world that is changing profoundly, and the new world will ensure the building of an international system based on multipolarity, and does not accept hegemony.
He added that terrorists supported by the Israeli occupation launched an attack a week ago that resulted in hundreds of casualties in the city of Homs, and the perpetrators of the same crime attacked the Palestinians in Gaza a day later.
The Israeli occupation government’s disregard for international laws, human values, and the rule-based world that they demand, and its insistence on racist practices and ethnic cleansing, aim to break the will of the Palestinian people and cancel their right to exist, said Mikdad.
Mikdad reiterated Syria’s full support for the Palestinian people, who today exercise their legitimate right to defend themselves by various means.
He stressed that the Israeli occupation must be aware that the practices of its far-right government, its repressive measures against the Palestinian people, its threat to wipe Gaza off the earth, and the expansion of the scope of its crimes in the region are doomed to failure.
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