Foreign Minister: "Palestinian Cause Is Struggle of Right Against Falsehood"

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Gaza/ Information Office/ 24 February 2015/ HE Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah has underlined that the Palestinian issue is the struggle of right against falsehood, stressing that the continued Israeli occupation has moral, humanitarian and political repercussions on the whole world, and reveals Israel's defiance of the will of the international community. HE the Minister was speaking in a recorded speech broadcast today at the First International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Rabat University in Gaza under the title (Palestine: Reasons of Occupation and Victory Factors). HE the Minister said that the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is a collective responsibility of the international community, adding that " the age of this issue has now exceeded more than 65 years which were filled with grief and displacement of the Palestinian people, who have suffered the ravages of brutal Israeli aggression and illegal practices through continuing settlement activities, house demolitions, the destruction of infrastructure, prevention of reconstruction as well as the suffocating and unjust siege of the Gaza Strip. ", HE the Minister noted. HE the Minister said that the Palestinian issue had passed through several stages which revealed the international community's failure to win the right, adding, "We are experiencing international legitimacy crisis and double standards". At some point , he said the issue was occupation of land and then became the issue of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem then became roadmaps, then became ways without maps and aggression and blockade on the Gaza, and negotiations for more than two decades without a final solution to the occupation a matter which reflects a tremendous inability of the international community and the arrogance of Israel that prevent the achievement of peace and ending the occupation through Israeli violations of all international conventions reached with the Palestinians and all relevant international legitimacy resolutions , along with gross irregularities and violations of international humanitarian law in the occupied territories. ", HE the Minister said. HE Dr. Al Attiyah said that the absence of international community efforts for ending the Israeli occupation were clear in the past where it tended to settle the dispute over interim and transitional adjustments" .. But despite all contradictions of the current scene, the future would be for peace as history has taught that the forces of aggression would vanish. ", HE the Minister added. HE Foreign Minister stressed the need for the joint Arab action to put pressure on the international community to force Israel to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories, based on clear and determinants in specific time frames according to the principle of two-state solution agreed upon by the international community. HE stressed that the peace process should not start from scratch, but starting from the international legitimacy including resolutions of the Madrid 1991, the Arab Peace Initiative 2002 and the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy in the light of the principle of two-state solution. HE Foreign Minister reiterated Qatar's firm position for providing all aspects of support to the brethren Palestinian people in order to get all their legitimate rights and establish their independent state on the borders of June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital through all means of international law in this regard. He called on all Palestinian parties to implement agreements of reconciliation, which were concluded in Doha and Cairo to unify the Palestinian ranks to achieve the aspirations of the Palestinian people in their freedom and independence. It is noteworthy that HE the Foreign Minister Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah's invitation to participate in the Conference came in recognition of Qatar's efforts towards to the Palestinian people and their just cause.