The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Motion Hamas on Friday urged member states attending the African Union (AU) Summit, slated for five and 6 February, to reject granting observer standing to Israel, an announcement has introduced.
Hamas said that Israel: “Has practised, and remains to be practising, state terrorism, and systematically commits every kind of crimes towards the Palestinian folks, their land and their holy websites.”
In its assertion, Hamas additionally famous that Israel “adopts a coverage of ethnic cleaning and racial discrimination,” affirming that many worldwide rights teams have confirmed this. A latest instance was the Amnesty International report, which described Israel as “an apartheid system”.
The Islamic motion additionally expressed:
The Israeli occupation state violates worldwide legislation and worldwide humanitarian legislation and refuses to implement worldwide resolutions or adhere to the suggestions of the United Nations committees that investigated its crimes.
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Hamas famous that granting Israel official observer status at the AU is a: “Flagrant violation of the African Constitution on Human Rights and the ideas and values of the AU and its statute, which supplies for the rejection and combating of racism, decolonisation and the correct to self-determination of peoples.”
Concluding its assertion, Hamas referred to as on: “All of the free folks of the African continent to declare their solidarity with the Palestinian folks, and to do their finest to thwart the reinstatement of the racist occupying energy to the AU, whose ideas and goals stipulate combating colonialism and racial discrimination.”
This got here similtaneously Algeria spearheading a movement to revoke the choice made by the AU to grant Israel observer standing.
Accepting Israel as an observer member state on the AU has divided the African nations, as some settle for it whereas others reject it.
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