An Islamic organisation, Aqsah Nigeria, has charged world leaders, particularly government in Africa to enforcement the July 19, 2024 ruling of the International Court of Justice, (ICJ), which declared Israel’s war on Palestinian territories as unlawful.
The organisation also called for mass mobilisation of people and continuous public awareness to uphold the judgement with a view to end the ongoing killings and displacement of Palestinians.
Speaking in Ibadan at a World Press Conference in collaboration with the International Institute for Human Heritage and other Muslim Organisations, the Director, Aqsah Nigeria, Barr. Rasheed Atta, said annexation of Palestine’s territories and discriminatory policies against the people were violations of International law, which should be stopped.
He stated that the judgement by the President of ICJ, Justice Nawaf Salaam was a clarion call for all global leaders and superpowers to rise against humiliation and oppression of the Palestinians.
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According to him, “The world must know the ICJ and its meaning. People who have struggled with the Palestinian people and those just join have a duty to mobilise within their powers and ensure the pronouncement is not another empty judgement”.
Atta challenged United Nations not to turn blind eyes to the ruling, but ensure justice for the oppressed, saying injustice to one is an injustice to all; and justice for humanity is sacrosanct irrespective of race, colour, religion or ideology.
Chairman, Muslim Community of Oyo State, Alhaji Kunle Sanni, who stressed the importance of understanding the world politics on Israeli onslaught in Gaza strip and other Palestinian territories, pointed out that the war is not between Muslims and Christians, as Zionist is destroying Churches and Mosques.
He said: “We are in support of the Palestinians on humanitarian grounds; we are concerned about the right to live. It is a coincidence that majority of Palestinians are Muslims, Sanni noted”.
Sanni urged the UN to stop a few countries from superintending the whole world, commending the 35 countries which cut ties with Israel for war crimes in Palestine.
The former Minister of Communications, who is also the Chairman and Pro-chancellor, David Umahi, Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu, Ebonyi State, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, said Palestine deserves to be a sovereign State, calling on governments to emulate South Africa in the support for Palestinian emancipation.
Shittu emphasized that the two-state solution by the international community should not circumvented or abrogated by Israeli occupation.
He solicited prayers and succour for the Palestinians, calling on United States to apply the same interventionist role in the Israeli occupation of Palestine as the Russian annexation of Ukraine attracted sympathy and support.