In a statement to Tel Aviv Tribune, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, called on the world to impose immediate sanctions on Israel to force it to implement the decision of the International Court of Justice to stop its attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Barghouti’s words came in the context of his comment on the massacre committed by Israel in the displaced persons’ camp northwest of Rafah, which resulted in the death of 35 and the injury of dozens, including women and children, according to the latest toll announced by the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
He said that Israel denies the decision of the International Court of Justice and bombs the tents of defenseless displaced persons who have nothing to defend themselves, and burns them alive. He described the massacre in Rafah as unparalleled brutality and expresses an Israeli military and political failure and a dangerous spirit of revenge.
The International Court of Justice said that Israel must immediately stop its attack on the city of Rafah, in a decision issued last Friday at the request of South Africa as part of a comprehensive lawsuit accusing Tel Aviv of committing genocide in the Strip.
The Israeli massacre against the displaced people in Rafah calls for imposing immediate sanctions on Israel, and every country that remains silent about it is participating in the crime, as said by Barghouti, who accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of being afflicted with madness, which led it to the point of accusing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) of being a terrorist organization.
The Israeli madness can be stopped, according to Barghouti, by imposing sanctions on Israel to deter it, and by stopping supplying it with weapons, but he wondered about the role of Western countries that claim to defend human rights and international law, while they watch Israel bomb Palestinians alive.
Barghouti denied the Israeli army’s allegations that it had bombed a compound of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Rafah while two main gunmen were inside. He said that he was lying, and that he wanted to take revenge for the fact that his soldiers and intelligence men had been captured by the Palestinian resistance, recalling that the targeted area was what the Israeli army said it was. It is safe and Palestinians are allowed to go there.
