By NNN-MAP
Rabat : Morocco has strongly denounced Israeli mass sanctions against Palestinians in flagrant violation of the international charters and international humanitarian law.
“The kingdom of Morocco, which follows with concern the continuous deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza due to the iniquitous blockade imposed by the Israeli authorities, strongly denounces the resorting to mass sanctions against our Palestinian brothers, in clear violation of the provisions of the humanitarian international law and charters,” the ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement here Wednesday.
Morocco, the ministry added, stresses that the dangerous drift of the situation in Gaza, because of this blockade, could abort the hopes raised by the Annapolis Conference.
It said Morocco had spared no efforts to lend full support to the Palestinian people and to make urgent efforts at the international level and in the United Nations, in conjunction with Arab and Islamic groups to definitively and completely lift the blockade.
The recent meetings here of the 5 5 Dialogue involving European and North African states in the Western Mediterranean and between the European Troika and the Arab Maghreb Union countries was an opportunity to voice Morocco’s position and the rejection of the Israeli action in the Gaza Strip, and to warn against the dangerous consequences of this blockade at the humanitarian level, the statement noted.
Gaza, which has a population of 1.5 million, has been cut off since Friday, when Israel closed the entry points. About half a million Gaza residents were without power for most of Sunday and Monday after the territory’s power plant exhausted its fuel reserves.
Meanwhile, the House of Advisers (upper house of Morocco’s parliament) has strongly denounced the mass sanctions imposed by the Israeli forces against Palestinians, deeming them as a “flagrant challenge to the different international human rights conventions and charters”.