OIC Condemns Israeli Aggressions on Palestinian Territories and Expresses Disappointment over Quartet Report
Date: 02/07/2016
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the alarmingly rising and repeated Israeli aggressions targeting Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the daily incursions on the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque.
The OIC Secretary General, Iyad Ameen Madani, considered the unabated construction of settlements; the unchecked terror committed by settlers; the Judaization of Al-Quds and its imposed isolation; the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories; the apartheid policies by Israeli authorities and the failure of the international community to see through its own resolutions on the Palestinian issue- as forming the environment and cause that invite violence, propagate tension and deepen the sense of frustration, injustice and helplessness among Palestinians. They combine to create a condition of perpetual instability; and render international institutions irrelevant and their resolutions void.
The Secretary General also expressed his disappointment over the content of the recent report by the Quartet Committee on the Muddle East. The report, Madani said, blamed the victims by assigning equal blame on the oppressed Palestinians and their oppressor. In using the term “Palestinian violence” the report glosses over the fact that the Palestinians are an occupied people of whom more than 2420 have been killed, some by burning to death, during the last two years alone. Madani pointed out that Palestinians have been living under the yoke of a racist occupation for 50 years, their homes destroyed, supply of water and electricity cut off in collective punishment, infrastructure frozen, financial assets and revenues cut off at a whim and natural resources confiscated.
The Secretary General considered the report by the Quartet Committee lacking in objectivity in not seeing the Israeli occupation, policies and illegal practices as the main obstacle and fundamental cause that hinders any progress in the political track. He expressed the need for the Quartet to carry its full political, legal and moral responsibility; and to perform its role as an honest mediator in sponsoring a multi political track based on a specified time frame, clear international references and definite steps towards ending Israeli occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Al-Quds as its capital.
He also noted the report’s disregard of the efforts conducted to hold an international peace conference on Palestine.
The Secretary General further denounced the continued political pressure, the unjustified use of veto power and the submission to the far right parties, that all aim to prevent the implementation of international resolutions, human rights conventions and basic ethical and moral standards on Israel.
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