Caracas, May 5 (EFE) .- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who swore for a third mandate after his questioned re-election, said Israel carrying an “extermination war” against the Palestinian people, after the United Nations Childhood Fund, UNICEF, reported that some 60,000 children suffer from malnutrition in Gaza.
“It is a war of extermination, of the extermination of the Palestinian people broadcast live and direct by social networks. Who street today in front of this war of extermination against children and all the families of the Palestinian people, will be forever complicit of one of the most horrific crimes that he could leave record,” he said in his weekly television program ˈ Con Maduro+ˈ.
The president said that a “crime” is being committed against the right of the Palestinian people to his “sacred land, peace, life, independence, to have an independent state as established by all the resolutions of the United Nations Organization.”
“The United Nations Organization on multiple occasions has determined the existence of two states, the Palestinian State and the State of Israel, now that international legality has been swept, so we are at a very dangerous moment,” he said.
Maduro indicated that the “world has to awaken and the Palestinian cause has to remain the cause of the most important humanity, for the respect of a people in their sacred millenary right to their land.”
Some 60,000 children already suffer from malnutrition in Gaza, according to data from the end of UNICEF April, due to a strong blockade that Israel maintained for more than 60 days in the Palestinian enclave, preventing the entry of food, water and humanitarian aid.
The Israeli government gave the green light on the morning of this Monday to implement a new military campaign to “occupy and retain the territories” of the Gaza Strip, beaten by the Israeli bombs for more than a year and a half.
He also approved in principle to resume the entry of help through North American companies, in order to deprive Hamas of having access.
An official Israeli source explained that the Plan “will include, among other things, the occupation of the Strip, the retention of the territories and the movement of the Gazatí population towards the south”, although the army currently already occupies part of the southern area of the enclave with the recent appropriation of the city of Rafah.
The new approved roadmap leaves behind “the method of incursions” that the troops applied before the top fire, which Israel broke on March 18, to give way “to the occupation and permanence” in the territories of the strip. EFE
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