Palestine National Council (PNC) said that the right of Palestinian people to defend themselves in the face of the Israeli occupation and its crimes is a sacred right that cannot be compromised, and it is a right guaranteed by the United Nations Charter and the laws that allow people to resist the occupation in order to gain freedom and independence.

In a statement issued today, Friday, PNC stressed that the valiant struggle and resistance of Palestinian people, which extends over Palestinian historic land in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and within the occupied territories in 1948, confirms once again Palestinian adherence to the national identity that the occupation has failed to erase and confiscate, despite 73 years of the Palestinian (Catastrophe) Nakba.

The insistence of people to strengthen its field unity, cohesion and sacrifices, must be supported by an immediate Palestinian decision to strengthen national unity, and to implement the decisions of Palestine National Council and Central Council, which should lead to dissolve the agreements signed with the Israeli occupation, where the agreements are torn apart by the occupation warplanes, PNC said.

While PNC demands the parliaments of Arab and Islamic countries assume their responsibility, it calls on the Arab and Islamic peoples to continue their solidarity and support for Palestinian people and their legitimate right to resist, struggle and defend their presence on their land, and protect their sanctities, PNC continued.

The inaction of the United Nations, the silence of the major powers, and the equality of the victim and the criminal executioner, who commits war crimes in Gaza Strip and other Palestinian cities, gave the green light to the occupation to continue its aggression, which has so far caused 146 martyrs, including 39 children and 22 women, and wounded about 1,350 Palestinians, most of them are children and women, PNC added.

PNC also said that the positions of the United States and some other complicit countries are unacceptable to consider the bombing of the Israeli occupation planes, cannons and boats against an unarmed people and under the occupation, as self-defense, it means that these countries announced its abandonment of its legal, moral and humanitarian duty to protect the Palestinians who are victims of a criminal occupation.

PNC rejected to ask the people under occupation to stop defending themselves, while the priority is to pursue the occupation, punish and end it, and to take a decision by the UN Security Council under Chapter Seven to implement United Nations decisions, to activate the tools and mechanisms of international and humanitarian law, and to prosecute the Israeli occupation leaders and the Prime Minister before the International Criminal Court for the crimes they commit in cold blood.

According to Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Israel, the occupying power is committing war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Palestine, and violating provisions of the relevant Fourth Geneva Convention, PNC affirmed, and demanded the general protection for Palestinian people under occupation, provided by the Fourth Geneva Convention and its two Protocols of 1977 and the Hague Convention, and implementation of the 2018 United Nations General Assembly resolution on Palestine