Sri Lankan MPs in their letter called on Guterres to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Gaza (Al Jazeera)
159 members of Sri Lanka's parliament have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, strongly condemning the Israeli war on Gaza as brutal and calling for its immediate cessation.
In the message expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and stressing the need to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, Sri Lankan MPs appealed to the United Nations, international governmental and non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations to take the necessary steps to impose them on Israel to stop its attack and aggression against the Palestinian people.
These parliamentarians described the Israeli attack on Gaza for more than a month as brutal, and said that the killing of thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, and the targeting of hospitals, amounts to a war crime, stressing the need for Israel to be held accountable under international laws and global humanitarian regulations for this crime.
They also considered that what Israel is doing in Gaza is a very clear and ongoing policy of genocide, stressing that what it is doing now is a clear indication of its efforts to expel Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip from their homes.
The signatories of the letter to Guterres urged the three permanent Western members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Britain and France) to stop supporting Israel and the fair application of international law without hypocrisy and double standards.
Source : Al Jazeera