Husam Zomlot, the ambassador of Palestine to the UK, delivered a speech outside the former Palestine Mission to the UK on Monday that led to the flag-raising ceremony.
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“Please join me as we raise the flag of Palestine in the colors of our nation: red, white, blue, and green for our land, and red for our people’s sacrifices,” Zomlot asked.
Zomlot claimed that “righting historic wrongs and committing together to a future based on freedom, dignity, and fundamental human rights” was the goal of the recognition of a Palestinian state.
He urged people to remember that “a genocide is being waged against us – a genocide that is being denied and allowed to continue with impunity” comes at a time of unimaginable pain and suffering.
As our people in Gaza are being starved, bombed, and buried beneath the rubble of their homes, as well as our people in the West Bank are being brutalized by daily state-sponsored terrorism, land theft, and suffocating oppression, he continued, “it comes as our people are being starved, bombed, and buried under the rubble of their homes.”
Zomlot claimed that the recognition was occurring because “our lives are still being questioned, our lives are still being wasted, and our fundamental freedoms are still being denied.”
He came to the conclusion that “this moment stands as a defiant act of truth, a refusal to let genocide be the final word, a refusal to accept that occupation is permanent, a refusal to be erased, and a refusal to be dehumanized.”
More than 100 years after the Balfour Declaration , British Prime Minister Keir Starmer endorsed “the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine” and 77 years after Israel was established in the British Mandate of Palestine.
We are taking action to preserve the possibility of peace and a two-state solution in the wake of the Middle East’s growing horror, Starmer said in a video statement on Sunday.
If Israel doesn’t end its genocidal war in Gaza, agrees to a long-term sustainable peace process that results in a two-state solution, and allows more aid into the enclave, the UK government announced in July that it would abandon its long-standing policy of preventing recognition until a supposedly maximum effect.
The Israeli military continues tosystematically destroy Gaza City to seize it, starving and displacing the enclave’s population, and has only increased significantly more dire in the last few weeks as the situation there has become even more dire.
Israel is advancing its plans to annex the Palestinian territory, with daily raids by Israeli soldiers and settlers attacking the occupied West Bank.
Two days before the start of the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA), which will focus on Palestinian sovereignty after decades of occupation and apartheid, Canada, Australia, and Portugal, also officially recognized Palestinian statehood.
A day before the UNGA’s opening, a one-day summit between France and Saudi Arabia will be held there. Both will be heavily focused on Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the elusive two-state solution.
Source: Aljazeera
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