Palestinian lands see ‘complicated, difficult situation’ despite int’l resolutions —Kanaan

AMMAN — Secretary General of the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs Abdullah Kanaan stressed that the Palestinian cause and Jerusalem — despite hundreds resolutions by the international legitimacy issued by the United Nations, the General Assembly, the Security Council and other affiliated organisations — are still witnessing a “difficult and complicated situation”.

Speaking to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, Kanaan said that international resolutions calling for stopping daily Israeli practices and systematic violations against Palestinians, including the UNESCO’s Executive Board Resolution No. 215, which stressed that all Israeli procedures aiming at changing the status quo of the holy city and its legal status are null and void, described the Palestinian situation as complicated and difficult.

The secretary general said that those following up on the field developments in Palestine and its besieged population know that the UNESCO resolution came in light of a dangerous Israeli occupation that adopts the policy of killing, arrest, forcible migration, confiscating property and lands, daily raids for Al Aqsa Mosque and besieging Palestinians, mainly in Gaza.

He also said that the world today is witnessing the brutal repression scenes in Jenin, Shu’fat camp and Nablus, among other Palestinian cities in Palestine, and the comprehensive crackdown on Palestinians in all fields, noting that the Jewish holiday seasons have become a “phenomenon that settlers seize for violence and attacks with the protection of Israeli forces”.

Kanaan also said that “Israel spreads hate towards millions of Muslims and Christians in Palestine and the entire world with breaking into their holy sites and depriving them of their right of worship in these sites”.

The secretary general also called on the world to exert all efforts that can enhance peace in international relations and not surrender to pressures of the “Zionist lobby that now seeks to pressure Western governments to move their embassies into the occupied Jerusalem”.  

He also said that the committee stresses the unaltered Jordanian stance and support the Hashemite custodianship on Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, adding that the Kingdom’s position adheres to international peace and security and all international legitimacy resolutions concerned with the Palestinian cause.

Kanaan also praised the Algeria Agreement that was signed on Thursday and the pan-Arab position supporting Palestinians towards achieving unity in the face of all Israeli occupation’s practices and violations.