Stand with Palestine

IN 1977 the UN passed a resolution (resolution 32/40 B) inaugurating an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people in recognition of the injustices and gross human rights violations that were being perpetrated in Palestine.

With this International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians being celebrated today, the Claremont Main Road Masjid (CMRM) once again affirms the right of Palestinians to resist the illegal occupation of their land by the Zionist State of Israel.

Thirty-nine years after this UN resolution was passed, we note that the Zionist State of Israel has continued with impunity its systematic campaigns of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

This has involved land grabs, settler expansions, home demolitions, destruction of essential infrastructure, illegal imprisonment and targeted killings of Palestinians.

Two years after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, the people of Gaza remain under siege living in a ruined settlement of rubble. Israel has taken to using access to water, food and basic health services as weapons of oppression. With the complicity of allies in the region, services to Gaza are easily and regularly blockaded.

Over 1.7 million Palestinians living in Gaza and other occupied territories are subject to the daily brutalisation of occupation under the Zionist State of Israel.

We call on all peace-loving citizens of the world to support the global campaign to isolate Israel economically and politically, to bring an end to the decades of state terror inflicted on the Palestinians.

We call on the international community to enact its own resolutions in pursuit of justice for Palestinians. Jaamia Galant (Secretary) and Imam D Rashied Omar OBO CMRM Board