RAMALLAH, January 24, 2025 (WAFA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that more than three million Palestinians have been effectively imprisoned in their cities, towns, and refugee camps by Israeli authorities, facing severe restrictions on their access to work, education, healthcare and places of worship, condemning Israel's actions as the most brutal forms of apartheid systems.

The ministry reaffirmed its ongoing commitment to actively expose these grave violations, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. It urged the international community to exert meaningful pressure to end the injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people, thereby enabling them to live with dignity on their land and within their sovereign state.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates emphasized that the ruling right wing in Israel is driving the Palestinian people into dire circumstances, threatening the future of subsequent generations. This is occurring against the backdrop of an unprecedented international failure to uphold international law, human rights, and international legitimacy, compounded by the double standards of states that profess support for the two-state solution while providing cover, protection, and support to the occupation, it said in a statement.

The ministry stated that more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been rendered homeless, deprived of basic means of survival and stripped of their civil rights, all under the watchful eyes of a world that claims to uphold civilization. This follows Israel’s perpetration of egregious acts of ethnic cleansing and the complete destruction of their homeland, with the intent to forcibly displace them, the ministry added.

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