Stop Israeli War Crime in Gaza! Asia-Pacific joint statement
Stop Israeli War Crime in Gaza! (Asia-Pacific joint statement)
Source: http://fightback.org.nz/2014/07/15/stop-israeli-war-crime-in-gaza-asia-pacific-joint-statement/
Regional
Joint Statement
In the past week, Israeli
military forces have escalated their offensive on the Gaza
Strip. Israeli warplanes have increasingly targeted houses,
civilian-populated areas and civilian facilities in the Gaza
strip. Israeli warplanes have destroyed a number of houses
while their residents were inside, without any prior
warnings, killing and wounding many Palestinian
civilians.
The Israeli government has cynically exploited the killing of three Israeli youth and used this to whip up a racist hysteria against Palestinians and the Hamas government in Gaza. It has done this without producing any evidence about who was responsible for those killings. A campaign of indiscriminate violence against Palestinians has been incited and one Palestinian boy has been tortured and burnt to death. Now even more indiscriminate retribution has been inflicted on the civilian residents of Gaza. Collective punishment is a violation of international humanitarian law.
The ruthless military offensive conducted by Israeli forces has nothing to do with “self-defence”, but a genocidal aggression on Gaza and intensification of bloody repression against Palestinians who had been constantly denied their right to self-determination by the Zionist regime.
The undersigned
organisations:
• Strongly condemn Israel's
latest attack on Gaza, Palestine and demand that it stop its
attacks on Gaza and respect international law including the
UN resolution 242 which demands Israel withdraw from the
Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories
which Israel has illegally occupied since 1967.
• Call
upon all governments to immediately withdraw their
ambassadors from Israel, cut diplomatic ties and end all
military and defence ties with Israel.
• Call for the
intensification of the economic boycott, disinvestment and
sanctions campaign against Israel.
Initiating
signatories
Socialist Alliance,
Australia
Socialist Party of Malaysia
(PSM), Malaysia
Partido Lakas ng Masa
(PLM), Philippines
Socialist Aotearoa,
New Zealand
Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Partai Rakyat
Pekerja (Working People Party),
Indonesia
Socialist Alternative,
Australia
Partai Rakyat Demokratik
(PRD), Indonesia
Solidarity,
Australia
Awami Workers Party,
Pakistan
Fightback, Aotearoa/New
Zealand
ENDS