The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Shawesh, has called on the international community to prevail on Israel and ensure the siege on Palestinian territory was immediately stopped.
Shares also requested for the application of international laws to resolve the lingering crisis between his country and Israel, even as he called on the international community to stop treating Israel as a nation above the law, calling for fair treatment of all parties.
Shawesh, said the lives of all individuals matter and condemned the killings ongoing in both countries.
Speaking with newsmen Tuesday in Abuja on the ongoing crisis between his country and Isreal, the Envoy also said that Palestine had the right to defend itself.
“Any country all around the world has the right to defend itself. Nigeria has the right to defend itself; Germany has the right to defend itself, but also, the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves and also have the fundamental rights and the legitimate rights to liberate themselves and to become a freed people,” Shawesh said.
Asked if the recent attack against Israel was an attempt by Palestine to defend itself, Shawesh answered in the affirmative.
Shawesh added: “The Palestinians, all the time, are trying to defend themselves and all the time, trying to use their legitimate right. This is their legitimate right to try to liberate ourselves.”
Shawesh further said it was the legitimate right of the Palestinians not only to defend themselves, but to liberate themselves.
He stated that the event of last Saturday was another step out of tens of blackmails of the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Shawesh also said he was sure that no one knew what happened to the Palestinians last Friday, 24 hours before the Saturday event whereby several Palestinians were maimed and killed in the streets by Israeli forces.
“No one is trying to shed light on those several Palestinian people who were killed just 24 hours before Saturday,” Shawesh lamented.
Shawesh further said two weeks ago, an Israeli radical messianic group that was patrolling the City of Jerusalem was spitting and slapping all the Christian Palestinians and Christian visitors to the Holy Land.
“The issue is, we cannot submit only to the issue of Saturday. There are many things to talk about it,” Shawesh explained.
On whether the Palestinian government was in support of the Hamas group, he said the group was not a terrorist organisation but fighting the course of the people to liberate their land from Israeli occupation.
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria said a ceasefire agreement between the warring parties depends on Israel which he said owns a comprehensive military formation with support from allies like the United States.
He said many women and children were killed, medical doctors displaced and Ambulances destroyed in the renewed onslaught, alleging that one of the oldest churches in the world was destroyed by the Israeli forces.
