The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, has vowed that Palestinians will not accept another Nakba.
Nakba is the Arabic term for tragedy or disaster. The name “Nakba” or “al-Nakba” refers to the Palestinian people’s loss of their country during and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
About 700,000 individuals are estimated to have either been driven from their homes or fled to what is now Israel.
Shawesh declared Friday at a news conference in Abuja that Palestinians would not consent to being ejected from their land by Israel ever again.
According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli government is in talks with Congo and other countries for the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza.
This comes weeks after Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right Israeli Finance Minister, demanded that Jewish settlers be allowed to return to the Gaza Strip following the war and that the region’s Palestinian populace be urged to leave.
“Israel political leaders are discussing this solution with many African countries but we will not accept another Nakba,” Shawesh said.
The Palatine envoy called on other countries to join South Africa in standing in support of international law and justice by suing Israel for its genocide of the people of Palestine.
“We also urge all countries that side with Israel’s acts of genocide and are neglecting to condemn Israel’s war crimes to acknowledge what is actually happening and to review their moral and legal position. The truth is that the behavior of the Israeli government is in fact form of genocide against the Palestinian people.
“It is absolutely inhumane to see countries with the largest military naval forces in the world moving to protect shipping and trade lines in the Red Sea, but we do not see them moving or even raising their voices to stop the acts of genocide taking place in the occupied Palestinian territories that we are seeing on the news.
“What makes matters worse, is that many of these countries are fully complicit in the ongoing genocide in Palestine by providing Israel with military means and ammunition, in addition to unconditional and unlimited political support,” he said.
South Africa recently submitted an 84-page document crammed with evidence that Israel is breaching its legal obligation under the 1948 International Genocide Convention.
