The head of the SYRIZA-PS, KKE, KKE, New Left and Freedom Cruise proceeded in a joint letter. Socrates, Dimitris Koutsoubas, Alexis Haritsis, Zoe Konstantopoulou respectively for the situation in Gauze.
In more detail, with the letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakisand the Minister of Foreign Affairs George Gerapetritisparliamentary groups are calling for all the military operations of the Israeli state to be stopped immediately and to have a truce and to open all the humanitarian diodes to send immediate assistance, water, food, medicines, health care and doctors to deal with them.
In detail the entire joint statement
The people of Palestine are experiencing dramatic moments. The state and the Israeli government are stepping up military operations in the Gaza Strip with a proclamated purpose of clearing it by the Palestinian population. In this context, they even refuse to provide humanitarian aid, bringing the Palestinian people to face the threat of famine. Partial or total extermination of a population is genocide. The UN has warned that thousands of babies are in danger in Gaza due to malnutrition and lack of drugs. In Gaza and in front of the eyes of mankind, there is a real genocide that to date has resulted in more than 61,000 dead, 119,000 injured and hundreds of thousands of uprooted, in their vast majority of civilian population.
Daily and on a large scale, there are individual acts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, in violation of any concept and provision of international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and in complete contradiction with their people. The International Criminal Court, founding Greece, has issued a arrest warrant against Netanyahu for international crimes.
In view of all these critical developments, the Greek government has no political, legal and moral right to justify and ultimately support these crimes. It must – and in the capacity of UN Security Council’s non -permanent member – to take active, urgent and clear initiatives to stop the Genocide at the expense of the Palestinian people, to tackle the humanitarian crisis, to recognize the Palestinian state at the 1967 border.
The following signature parliamentary groups, through their presidents, send a statement to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to take initiatives in the following directions:
Now all the military operations of the Israeli state be stopped in Gaza and to have a truce.
Now open all the humanitarian diodes to immediately send help, water, food, medicines, health material and doctors, to deal with the famine for the Palestinians.
The Greek government expressly and unequivocally condemn the crimes of the State of Israel, against the Palestinian people, against workers and volunteers, doctors and nurses, to humanitarian organizations and missions trying to help and at the expense of their personal aid.
The Greek government has to interrupt military cooperation with the state of Israel.
Immediately apply the unanimous decision of the 2015 Parliament and to recognize the Palestinian state at the 1967 border with the capital of East Jerusalem.
To invite, under the responsibility of the Speaker of the House, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas to the Greek Parliament in order to inform the Greek people of the situation in the Gaza Strip and a total of Palestinian territories.