Speaker of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, said that the Israeli occupation’s massacre of the Khader family in Jabalia camp, which claimed the lives of more than 40 civilians, including doctors, engineers, academics and children, is a crime of genocide against humanity and a deliberate crime of ethnic cleansing aimed at uprooting Palestinian families from the civil registry, in a scene that brings to mind the most horrific crimes in modern history.
This video shows journalist Rahim Khadr calling for his mother and father, who were among those killed when Israel bombed his home, killing all his family members in Jabalia al-Balad, northern Gaza:
This video shows terrified families trying to flee the area as the Israeli military continues bombing from a quadcopter:
Fattouh added in a statement issued by the National Council on Saturday: “We remind the world that self-defense does not involve killing and wounding more than 50,000 children, destroying homes over the heads of their inhabitants, or erasing Palestinian families from civil records. These crimes represent the height of organized terrorism practiced by the criminal terrorist government . ”
He pointed out that the United States of America bears direct responsibility for the continuation of these massacres through its political and diplomatic protection of the terrorist government and its repeated obstruction of any resolutions that might be issued by the Security Council to stop the aggression and impose accountability.
Fattouh stressed that this blatant American bias not only prolongs the war, but also directly encourages the commission of further crimes and undermines any hope of achieving justice or peace in the region .
He concluded by saying that the international community’s silence in the face of these crimes amounts to complicity in the crime. Security and stability will not be achieved as long as the Israeli killing machine operates without deterrence, and as long as the major powers collude through silence or political cover-up, contenting themselves with verbal statements for 608 days, during which tens of thousands of innocent victims have been victims.
