Palestinian factions: UN must hold 'Israel' accountable for war crime

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
25 Jan 2024 19:49
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Several Palestinian Resistance factions have released statements denouncing the Israeli occupation's escalating war crimes on Thursday.

Palestinians and emergency workers look for survivors at a mosque toppled to the ground after Israeli occupation forces launched a strike on it in the southernmost city of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, on January 24, 2024. (AP)

Palestinian Resistance factions denounced the atrocious aggression committed by Israeli occupation forces against thousands of besieged civilians, slamming the attack as a "war crime" and an "act of genocide."

The Palestinian Follow-up Committee for National and Islamic Forces, which includes major Palestinian parties including, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), among other political parties, released a statement on the matter.

The Committee called on the United Nations and international organizations to hold Israeli occupation forces accountable for committing the recent war crime. Moreover, the workgroup said the new massacre is a "full-fledged war crime," which comes in line with the "Nazi occupation's" continued crimes aimed at "ethnically cleansing and committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip."

Amid international inaction against Israeli war crimes, the committee held the United Nations and all international and regional entities responsible for these crimes, including deliberate delays in humanitarian aid deliveries and complications that serve to deny Palestinians their basic human rights.

Several Palestinian factions put out several statements condemning several war crimes committed on Thursday by the Israeli occupation.

PIJ

The PIJ said the continued crimes necessitate that concerned international and governmental parties take a "bold stand" and open the Rafah border crossing for humanitarian aid.

The crimes "call for bold stances by Arab and Islamic organizations, states, and governments in particular, which have a primary responsibility to break the siege, bring in aid, and open crossings," the movement stressed in a statement.

PFLP

On its part, the PFLP held the "American administration, its partners, and the United Nations" responsible for a war crime committed by Israeli occupation forces in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) center in Khan Younis.

The statement released by the front stressed that the "international regime" has provided the Israeli occupation with the necessary "protection" to continue its genocidal war on the Palestinian people. The statement comes after the Israeli occupation forced out thousands of refugees from a UNRWA center in Khan Younis, in which they had taken refuge.

The PFLP said the UN "did not take serious, pressing steps to impose protection on its headquarters in the Gaza Strip, or carry out its full responsibilities towards the unprecedented humanitarian and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip," adding that the UN's efforts "remain incomplete" after UNRWA took a decision to abandon all facilities and headquarters in the northern Gaza Strip, in the first few days of the war on the Gaza Strip.

Hamas

The Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas said the occupation committed a "heinous crime", which has been similarly "repeated several times by the fascist Israeli army in the Gaza Strip."

The movement stressed that the war crime reflects "the brutality of the occupation and its disregard for human lives and international laws, which are violated under the [protections] and approval of the United States."

Hamas called on the UN to assume its responsibilities and take "firm stances to stop these horrifying crimes and hold the perpetrators accountable, including the leaders of the Nazi occupation."

Al-Mujahideen Movement

The Palestinian al-Mujahideen movement also released a statement, saying that the "atrocious crime of shelling thousands of citizens with artillery and missiles" while they wait for humanitarian aid "is a new act" that marks the "contempt [of the] entire international system and the disregard for millions of Arabs and Muslims."

The group pointed out that these crimes confirm the enemy's continuation of genocidal massacres due to the unlimited American and international cover for its monstrous crimes against the resilient people of Gaza.

Al-Mujahideen Movement also called for escalating all forms of resistance on various fronts, emphasizing that this enemy only surrenders under the blows of resistance and only understands the language of war.