UN must condemn Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians: Activist
The United Nations should adopt a stronger language against Israel and condemn the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied territories, says an activist with the Free Palestine Movement.
“When the United Nations says that they are an occupying power in there, they get upset because they do not like to be called an occupying power,” Paul Larudee told Press TV’s Top 5 program.
“Well, would they prefer to be called an ethnic-cleansing power?” he asked. “That’s perhaps more appropriate.”
“If you tell them (the Israelis) that we’re going to call you a genocidal power rather than an occupying power maybe they’ll be more amenable to being an occupying power,” he also said.
The activist said, the Tel Aviv regime is pursuing its policies of ethnic cleansing, genocide and disrespecting the religious rights of the Palestinian people.
The Israelis want to obliterate thousands of years of history of the Palestinian people in order to make the occupied territories appear “nothing but a Jewish land,” he noted.
The Israeli regime not only disregards international law, but wants the international law to be changed “to allow them to pursue their genocide.”
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has denounced Israeli violations in and around the al-Haram al-Sharif (also known as the Temple Mount) compound in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.
A UNESCO resolution strongly condemned "the escalating Israeli aggression and illegal measures against… the freedom of worship and Muslims’ access to their holy site al-Aqsa Mosque/al-Haram al-Sharif.”
It also called on "Israel, the occupying power, to respect the historic status quo and to immediately stop these measures.”
The occupied territories have already been the scene of increased tensions ever since Israeli forces imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds in August 2015.
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