Yesterday, Monday, Brussels hosted the conference “A Year of Genocide in Gaza… The Humanitarian, Legal and Political Consequences in the European Context,” which coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
Over the course of 3 sessions, the conference discussed a number of humanitarian, legal and political issues related to the suffering and crimes to which the Gaza Strip is exposed, and how the Israeli killing machine claimed more than 50,000 martyrs, most of them children and women, and targeting all aspects of life within the Strip, including bombing hospitals, health centres, mosques and churches. In front of the world.
Pictures of suffering
The sessions also discussed the suffering of Palestinian prisoners, who number more than 20,000, including women and children, including more than 5,000 kidnapped prisoners who are subjected to the most heinous international crimes and violations during their lives or after their death inside the prison, where their bodies are arrested and their organs stolen.
The conference demanded that the issue of Palestinian prisoners be placed on the table of European politicians, and that this issue be discussed with the seriousness it deserves, leading to actual action to stop crimes that violate the rights of prisoners.
Regarding the suffering of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, speakers at the conference indicated that the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians was not a reaction to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, but rather came within the context of an expansionist settlement history of a racist nature that turned the West Bank and its geography into a difficult reality that makes the establishment A Palestinian state is a fantasy.
Conference recommendations
In the final statement issued after the discussion sessions, the conference called on the entire Palestinian people, the Arab and Muslim minorities, and European supporters of the Palestinian right to continue and intensify their pressure activities on European political decision-makers to ensure an end to the Israeli aggression and the realization of the Palestinian right.
The conference also called on the European Union and all its bodies and decision-makers to issue clear political decisions that criminalize the Israeli occupation and demand that it stop its political and legal violations against innocent people inside the Gaza Strip and all of Palestine.
The final statement of the conference also called on the European Union countries to directly and explicitly recognize the Palestinian state.
The conference affirmed the strategy of the current circumstance, which witnesses the occurrence of unprecedented crimes by the Israeli occupation in the history of the Palestinian struggle, and at the same time the existence of unprecedented legal steps to prosecute the occupation in the International Courts of Justice, the International Criminal Courts, and the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, and this provides an important basis for a more popular movement. Pressure.