Algeria’s new indictment against Israel’s crimes in the Palestinian territories. While the Gaza Strip has been bombarded daily for a month, the President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune used powerful words to denounce the injustice imposed on this enclave and on the entire Palestinian people.
The Head of State devoted part of his speech to the Palestinian question on the official opening of the 2023-2024 judicial year, this Monday, November 6 at the Supreme Court.
“Being in front of men of law and justice, we wonder where justice is in the world, where are the rights of oppressed peoples, led by the Palestinian people,” declared Mr. Tebboune in front of an audience made up of judges, prosecutors, advisors, members of government and state executives.
Israeli bombings have left more than 10,000 dead among Gaza’s civilian population, 40% of them children, and the major Western powers still refuse to call for a ceasefire.
On the 31st day of the aggression, the Israeli army intensified its bombings on several locations in Gaza, causing dozens of victims.
“All standards of human, moral, religious and legal values have collapsed in occupied Palestine,” lamented President Tebboune, who also regrets “the terrible silence” of the international community in the face of what “the world observes daily as barbaric massacres.” committed by the occupying forces against the brotherly Palestinian people.”
Tebboune: seize the ICC to end Israel’s impunity
Also, the President of the Republic called for referral to the International Criminal Court, “the only way to put an end to decades of impunity for crimes committed against the Palestinians.”
“I call on free men around the world, Arab legal experts, as well as human rights bodies and organizations to file complaints with the International Criminal Court and international human rights organizations against the Israeli entity,” he said.
The head of state pleaded for “effective” prosecutions capable of achieving international justice and allowing “our Palestinian brothers” to “recover their legitimate rights to establish their independent state with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital”.
Algeria is one of the Arab countries that unreservedly supports the Palestinian people who have been facing terrible aggression from the Israeli army for a month.
Visiting Djelfa at the end of October, Abdelmadjid Tebboune rejected accusations of terrorism made by certain Western governments against the Palestinian resistance.
The Algerian president’s words will remain “engraved in history”, said the ambassador of the State of Palestine in Algiers, Fagé Abu Aita.
“We thank Algeria for all the support it provides to the Palestinian people, both politically and materially,” said the diplomat during a solidarity session with the Palestinian people organized last Thursday by the Assembly. National Popular Party (APN), recognizing that Algeria’s position on the issue “has always been constant and honorable”.
