Gaza _ Palestine News Network
The Arab League on Saturday called for urgent international action to stop the Israeli "aggression and heinous crimes" against the Gaza Strip protesters, which resulted in the rise of seven martyrs.
In a press statement, the Assistant Secretary-General of the league Saeed Abu Ali said he condemned the "persistent heinous crimes that Israel is carrying out against the defenceless Palestinian people in the eyes of the whole world."
"The continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinians must be put to an end and a more effective political role should be played to end the conflict and strengthen its responsibilities to ensure respect for international human rights and humanitarian law, including international protection for the Palestinian people," he said.
Ambassador Abu Ali stressed the importance of working in accordance with the legal and moral obligation to ensure that Israel is held accountable for its crimes and continued violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, which are perpetrated against peaceful demonstrators in the Gaza Strip and the processes of displacement and ethnic cleansing against Bedouin communities, primarily the village (Red Khan).
Ambassador Abu Ali stressed the importance of working in accordance with the legal and moral obligation to ensure that Israel is held accountable for its crimes and continued violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, which are perpetrated against peaceful demonstrators in the Gaza Strip and the processes of displacement and ethnic cleansing against Bedouin communities, primarily the village (Red Khan).
The International Criminal Court was called upon to respond promptly to the claims of Palestine for Israeli crimes as being a "war crime that should not go unpunished".
He stressed that the continued reluctance to implement resolutions and elaborate international law enforcement mechanisms would encourage the occupation, its forces and settlers to continue this declared war against the defenceless Palestinian people.
"The time has come for the human conscience through its institutions and the State to take the initiative to put an end to this Israeli recklessness of the lives of the Palestinian people and of human life," he said.
On Friday evening, Aisha Mohammed Radi, 45, was martyred after Jewish settlers launched a stone attack on the martyr´s car with her husband while they were passing near the "Zaatara" military checkpoint south of Nablus.
The settler´s assault injured Aisha with a stone in her head and her death, while her husband was wounded.
Also on the same day, the Israeli army killed seven Palestinians and injured 252 others during the repression of the Israeli occupation forces participating in the "Juma Intifada" in the peace process in the eastern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians have been participating in peaceful marches, near the fence between Gaza and the occupied Palestinian Territory in 1948, since March 30 March, demanding the return of the refugees to their towns and villages from which they were abandoned in 1948 and breaking the siege of Gaza.
These peaceful marches are violently repressed by the occupying army, with heavy gunfire and poisonous gas canisters being fired at the demonstrators.
Since the marches were launched, 215 Palestinians have been killed, including 10 martyrs whose bodies have been detained and not registered in the statements of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, while 22,000 others have been injured, including 460 in high-risk situations.
