𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞

 

The resistance movement of Palestinians in Gaza was said to be holding about 100 hostages. According to some accounts, some of these hostages were killed by Israeli bombardment.

Israel as an occupying power is illegally holding more than 8000 Palestinians. As a peace activist, I fully stand for the release of all such hostages, both by the resistance movement and the occupying power.

It can happen when Israel stops its genocidal war and ethnic cleansing, orders a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, withdraws its army from Gaza (and also from the West Bank) and adheres to the UN resolutions to end its occupation of the Palestinian land it captured in 1967.

That is the only sane way to peace. But will Israel and its main sponsor and abettor of wars and ethnic cleansing, the United Sates, give peace a chance? Because of their record, I am reluctant to make any prediction.

— Nasir Khan