Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa asked for moderation so that the conflict that has worsened between Hamas and Israel can be resolved and said that Some Palestinians “should not have started” this war.. The head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Portugal he didn’t like to listen The President of the Republic blames only one of the parties and does not refer to Israel’s brutal response or the occupation of the Palestinian territories. For Nabil Abuznaid, the Portuguese head of state It wasn’t fair.
“If we want to be fair, we have to at least condemn the violence on both sides and condemn the occupation, which is the root of the problem. If we want to be fair. And the President repeated the attack on 7 [de outubro], but he did not mention the people of Gaza. This is unfair,” Nabil Abuznaid told reporters.
The head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Portugal noted that “the reaction was brutal” by the Israeli Armed Forces and argued that “the occupation must end”.
Finally, Nabil Abuznaid called for an end to the war: “We have to stop this war now, more people are dying.”
Given the disappointment expressed by Nabil Abuznaid for not having also condemned Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the President of the Republic reiterated the message he left to the Palestinian diplomat: “This time It was a monumental mistake to start.”.
“They started it and, therefore, this time they were responsible for what, from the point of view of the moderates, of the moderate Palestinians, is counterproductive.”
Asked if the reaction of the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission makes you feel uncomfortable, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa responded: “No, nothing, nothing. I am with him every year, he is a very moderate person and, in fact, I called attention to the moderation that he has and that the Palestinian Authority should have, because he is interested in that moderation.
The Head of State affirmed that Nabil Abuznaid “has been here for a long time and knows that the Portuguese position does not deviate from the position of the United Nations” on this matter, in favor of two States, Israel and Palestine, “which Portugal supports, it has always been a Portuguese position.
Israel does not have a position in this edition of the Diplomatic Bazaar which began this Friday in Lisbon, nor the United States of America.
The Islamist group Hamas, classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States of America, which controls the Gaza Strip, launched an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory on October 7, in which it killed and kidnapped soldiers and civilians, including children.
According to the Israeli government, Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and took around 220 hostages, of which four have since been released. The Israeli military responded to the Hamas attack with bombings and cuts to water, food, electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip, where more than two million people live, warning the population of the enclave that they would be in danger if they did not move south.
Authorities in the Gaza Strip report more than 9,000 people killed by Israeli bombings, including more than 3,000 children.
Source: TSF
