Amman, Oct 1 (Petra) -- Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs Secretary-General Abdullah Kanaan said Tuesday that international human rights, legal and humanitarian organizations endeavor to raise slogans and designate events on human rights and human dignity, while ignoring rampant violations and systematic crimes against individuals, societies and people, many driven by religious, sectarian or ideological considerations.

Among annual events the world celebrates on October 2 is so-called International Day of Nonviolence, which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 to spread awareness and the desire to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence among humans, he said in a statement.

All these slogans are crumbling at the sight of bombings, killings and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the cities of occupied Palestine and in Lebanon due to the Israeli occupation machine, which unfortunately is backed by countries that celebrated the slogans of freedom, democracy and advancement of humanity.

What is taking place in occupied Palestine surpasses the circle of violence into a model of genocide and ethnic cleansing that takes place before the eyes of the world and its organizations, in an incomprehensible policy of interests, double-standards and bias to Israel under the pretext of self-defense, whose price is the blood of innocent civilians, he said.

Kanaan said the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs alerts the world opinion to the dangerous model of violence practiced by countries, represented by the Israeli occupation authority, whose "barbaric" actions have left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dead, wounded or imprisoned, and millions displaced since 1948 through the past decades of injustice and colonialism.

The statement said the committee reaffirms that the rule of international law, justice and sanctions is the remedy to Israeli violence and killing of unarmed Palestinians, which breeds hatred, terrorism and extremism and blocks the chances for peace and security.

It reiterated that Jordan will remain the custodian over Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and support the Palestinian people.

//Petra//SS


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