Israel has no “sovereignty” to veto Unrwa, the “spine” of help, says China
The Chinese government defended this Friday before the International Court of Justice (CIJ) that the UNRWA is the “spine” of humanitarian aid in Palestine, and warned that “occupation continues and hunger persists”, although Israel “cannot exercise sovereignty” in the Palestinian territories “or prohibit” that UN agency.
In his speech during the last day of hearings before the ICJ, Ma Xinmin, legal advisor to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, he said that the UNRWA is “the spine” of the Humanitarian assistance operations in Gaza, and its “role in relieving the humanitarian crisis In the strip it is indispensable and irreplaceable. ”
In addition, China warned that Israel, “as an occupying power, He has no sovereignty or the right to exercise sovereign power anywhere in the Palestinian territory Occupied, ”and therefore, it cannot“ prohibit the presence or activities of the UNRWA, since such sovereign powers belong exclusively to the Palestinian people ”.
