…Says death toll exceeded 12,000
From Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah Shawesh, has accused the West of perpetrating genocide in the ongoing conflict between State of Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Shawesh, while addressing journalists in Abuja, said the unconditional, unshakable political, military and media support that the Israel occupation is receiving from Western countries has perpetrated the current ‘Textbook Genocide’ and the continuance Palestinian NAKBA that started in 1948.
“By continuing airing and screening the Occupier propaganda and picking the side of the executioners, the main Western media outlets are completely complicit on the current Textbook Genocide.
“On the 40th day of this Frenzy Textbook Genocide, all the news that still came from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in particular from Gaza are heartbreaking news.
“As the unfortunate usual, I have no other choice except to start by the bloody statistical figures,” Shawesh said.
Reeling out the figures, Shawesh said with the deepest sorrow, the death toll among the Palestinian civilians exceeded twelve thousand, the majority of them being children and women.
“Out of more than two thousand still missing, there have been groaning still coming from under the rubble which means that some are still breathing and fighting for their lives.
“The casualty toll in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has also climbed up as Israeli occupying forces and settlers ratchet up their violence on Palestinian civilians, now 186 killed, including 46 children, and 2,400 injured.
“Hundreds of bodies of Palestinian victims are decomposing in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital, on the streets, and under the rubble, and there is no opportunity to bury them with the respect they deserve.
“More than 750 journalists from dozens of news organizations signed an open letter, condemning Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza, and criticizing Western media coverage of the aggression against the Strip,” Shawesh also said.
