The Palestinian Government on Wednesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being hostile to peace and denying the rights of Palestinians throughout his years in power to “perpetuate a right-wing ideology.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, 74, was prime minister between 1996 and 1999, then between 2009 and 2021, and returned in December 2022, heading a coalition that includes the extreme right and the ultra-Orthodox.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website that Netanyahu has unleashed a policy of brutality against Palestinians since coming to power.
He also regretted that “the supremacists now control the checks and balances in the Israeli Government,” referring to the current government coalition.
The ministry warned of “the catastrophic dangers of racial incitement campaigns” against Palestinians, according to the statement cited by the Spanish agency Europa Press.
He criticized senior Israeli officials who described Palestinians as “human animals” in the context of the offensive against the Gaza Strip, triggered by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7.
“The responsibility lies with Netanyahu, who day and night makes stupid and inflammatory statements comparing Palestinians to Nazis,” Palestinian diplomats said.
The ministry reiterated that Palestinians, Israelis and other peoples in the region are paying a high price for an “obscurantist ideology” fueled by Israeli authorities to “achieve imperialist and racist objectives.”
In this sense, he accused Netanyahu of trying to “replace the two-state solution with a cycle of conflict and violence” through “unilateral and illegal measures.”
The Palestinian Ministry also warned of the “bloody consequences on the ground” of the lack of an agreement to end the Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip.
He reiterated the need for the international community, led by the United States, to “respond to the aspirations of the Palestinian people for freedom and self-determination” through a “just political solution.”
Such a solution should lead to the creation of a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital, which would “bring security and stability to the region and the world,” he added.
Hamas announced this Wednesday that the Israeli reaction to the October 7 attack has already caused more than 21,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the destruction of a large part of the enclave that the Islamist group has controlled since 2007.
In the unprecedented attack, Hamas commandos killed 1,200 people and took more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
The ministry’s statement followed an interview with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he criticized the US commitment to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on UN resolutions.
Source: TSF
