Qatar Slams International Community’s Silence on Israeli Crimes
Hassan bin Abdullah Al-Ghanim, the speaker of Qatar’s Shura Council, made the remarks while addressing the opening session of the conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Doha believes such indifference towards Israel “facilitates its impunity, as peace efforts become meaningless efforts, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital. East, impossible,” he said.
It came after Israeli forces carried out a new deadly massacre on Wednesday that left 11 Palestinians killed and dozens more injured, in what has been described as one of the deadliest military raids in the occupied West Bank since the Palestinian uprising or Intifada of 2000–2005.
Early on Wednesday morning, Israeli undercover agents disguised as religious Muslims entered the Old City of Nablus on foot. They hid inside a mosque in the al-Halabeh neighbourhood next to a home where two Palestinian fighters were seeking refuge.
According to locals, the Israeli soldiers continued to hide inside the mosque until the morning, when dozens of other soldiers, including snipers on rooftops, took up positions in and around the home and neighbourhood.
At least 150 Israeli soldiers in dozens of armoured vehicles raided Nablus and used live ammunition on residents in the area.
Hossam Isleem, 24, and Mohammad Abdulghani, 23, two fighters who belonged to the Lions’ Den armed organisation in Nablus, resisted arrest before being killed a short while later. Locals said Israeli forces attacked the home using rocket-propelled grenades and armed drones.
Three elderly men, aged 72, 66, and 61, as well as a 16-year-old boy were among the victims of the raids on Wednesday, while hundreds more were injured by tear gas inhalation.
The raid occurred just a month after a similar raid about 41 kilometres (25 miles) away, that claimed the lives of 10 Palestinians at Jenin refugee camp.
Deadly Israeli attacks have increased in Jenin and Nablus, which have emerged as the centres of armed Palestinian resistance.
Source: dohanews.co
