Abu Dhabi: The UAE has condemned in the strongest possible terms the reprehensible terrorist criminal act in the West Bank in which the young Palestinian child, Ali Dawabsha, was burned to death, saying that the act was a crime that had caused feelings of revulsion around the world.
“This crime is a dangerous escalation of the terrorist acts being carried out by the Israeli colonists on the West Bank against the Palestinian people, their land and their places of worship, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. It is absolutely essential that the necessary pressure is placed on Israel to respond to the crimes of the colonists in a very serious way,” UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed said in a statement to the UAE News Agency, WAM.
Shaikh Abdullah called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility over the crisis, so that Israel does not feel that it is above international humanitarian law and to ensure Israel will not repeat such terrorist actions.
“The radicalism and hatred that has been demonstrated in this crime against an innocent infant and his family is the natural outcome of Israeli terrorist practices and is the outcome of a long series of continuous attacks against unarmed Palestinian civilians,” Shaikh Abdullah said.
“This crime,” he added, “is the natural by-product and result of the spread of Israeli colonies in Palestinian territories. It is the result of and a symptom of the brutal racialist culture of the colonists that is directed against the Palestinians, against women, children and unarmed civilians, this being carried out under the protection of, and with silence from, the official Israeli establishment.”
“No credibility whatsoever can be accorded to the official condemnations of this act from the Israeli Government,” Shaikh bdullah said. “The legal framework, the judicial practices and the activities of the Israeli security establishment are the basic components of the racialist system of occupation. It is absolutely essential that the international community should pay serious attention to the need to demonstrate that Israel cannot avoid punishment for such crimes.”