Hospital Bombardment: Envoy Calls for Inquiry into Israeli’s Attacks on Palestine

Michael Olugbode in Abuja

The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah Shawesh, has called for the setting up of an inquiry into ongoing attack by Israel on Palestine on the claim of searching for members of Hamas group.

Israel while claiming that she was not at war with Palestine, had claim that the ongoing attack was aimed at fishing out members of Hamas group that recently invaded her territory, killing men and taking several others hostage.

As a fallout of the Israeli siege, a Baptist Hospital was hit by a rocket with over 500 Palestinian taking refuge killed.

The Palestinian Envoy while seeking a global condemnation of the Israeli siege on Palestine, especially the killing at the hospital on Tuesday, said a body of inquiry on the said bomb, which killed mostly women and children that took refuge in the hospital should be immediately be set up.

Shawesh, who spoke in Abuja, said the excesses of Israel could not continuously be overlooked, saying no fewer than 3,000 people had died in Gaza since Israeli bombardment, following the surprise attack on Israel by the Hamas, the armed wing of the Palestinian country.

He expressed his country’s willingness to return to the roundtable on the land dispute with Israel so as to reach an amicable resolution., even as he defended the Hamas, saying it was a natural law for someone to resist occupation of one’s land.

The envoy also noted that his country was not surprised that United States was supporting Israel, lamenting that US had used their veto power on the Security Council 80 times, with more than half of it against the Palestinian people.

He argued that it was obvious that the attack on the hospital was from the Israeli force, noting that the denial was a second thought.

“It is very important for us to wait and to at least acknowledge that there was a bombardment from the Israeli occupation themselves. Let us create an international inquiry Commission to be established by the United Nations, Human Right Council and African Union to determine where the bombardment came from,” he said.

According to him, all the evidence on the ground pointed to Israel, noting that Israel was in control of the airspace and were monitoring all the movements of the people in Gaza.

He, therefore, maintained that, “International law must be respected, especially international humanitarian law and human rights law. There should be no exception or impunity for Israel, and it should not be above the law.

“It is time for the international community to stand firm and united in support of the international law. For everyone around the world, raise your voice loudly at this historical juncture. If not you, then who? If not now, when?”