Head of Hamas’s Political Bureau Ismail Haneyya on Saturday sent a letter to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad calling for a serious action on the Arab Islamic and international level to criminalize Israel’s Jewish state law.
Israeli Knesset on Thursday approved the law in its second and third readings with 62 lawmakers voting in favor 55 against and two abstaining. The law defines Israel exclusively as a nation-state of the Jewish people and stipulates that “the right to self-determination in the state of Israel is limited to Jews”.
Haneyya briefed Mahathir Mohamad on the Israeli occupation’s systematic attacks on the Palestinian people including the settlement construction the Judaization projects targeting Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip and the suffering of Palestinian prisoners behind Israeli bars.
Haneyya stressed that the Jewish state law is a blatant aggression on the Palestinian people’s rights and a flagrant violation of the UN resolutions providing for return or compensation for Palestinian refugees.
He added that Hamas believes the Palestinian people have a legitimate right to defend their lands holy sites and rights especially their right to return and establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Hamas leader asked Mahathir Mohamad to condemn Israel’s racist law and act strictly against such laws which deprive the Palestinian people of fundamental rights.
Haneyya stressed the need for an international action to confront the US administration’s biased policy and blind support for the Israeli narrative and to put an end to Israel’s disregard for the UN resolutions and international conventions.
He also called for an urgent and effective initiative to support the Palestinians prevent their displacement in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories Jerusalem and the West Bank and break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for the 12th year in a row.
