Palestinian FM condemns Israel's ethnic cleansing, calls for Gaza ceasefire in New Year message
The Palestinian foreign minister has issued a New Year message calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli regime has been waging a genocidal war for more than two months.
The call was made through a Sunday post on the official account of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on X social media platform.
At the beginning of his message, Riad al-Malki welcomed the New Year and "the 59th anniversary of the start of the Palestinian revolution."
"...the wounds of our people are bleeding due to #Israeli war machine's persistence in the war of #genocide, destruction, and #displacement," Malki said.
Minister Dr. Riad Malki : We welcome the New Year and the 59th anniversary of the start of the #Palestinian_revolution, yet the wounds of our people are bleeding due to #Israeli war machine's persistence in the war of #genocide, destruction, and #displacement, where killings,… pic.twitter.com/Cm7YNDnREA
— State of Palestine - MFA 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@pmofa) December 31, 2023
He added, "...killings, destruction, displacement, #starvation, the spread of epidemics, invasions, arrests, and torture, all of which are crimes of #ethnic_cleansing, [are] dominating the daily lives of Palestinian citizens."
"We reaffirm our demand at the beginning of this year for an immediate ceasefire," the top diplomat asserted.
Malki concluded his message by hoping for the upcoming year "to be the year when the Palestinian people obtain their fair and legitimate national rights to return, self-determination, and the embodiment of the Palestinian state on the ground" with East al-Quds as its capital.
His call came as a global grassroots campaign has been launched to press for turning the traditional New Year's countdown across the globe into a countdown to immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
🔴 Historic Global Call to Ceasefire [ Countdown 2 Ceasefire ] Live Transmission https://t.co/vf2CmUxaTU
— #countdown2ceasefire (@c2ceasefire) December 31, 2023
As the death toll keeps mounting in the coastal territory due to Israel's relentless attacks, Countdown2Ceasefire has called for global countdown events, from Southeast Asia to Latin America, in support of an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza , .
The Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7 following an operation by the territory's resistance movements, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm. Close to 22,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in the regime's military campaign so far.
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