Palestinians slam Hungary’s standpoint concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

You may read the unchanged statement of the embassy of the state of Palestine below.

The embassy of the state of Palestine was shocked and disappointed by the Hungarian Foreign Minister’s remarks. The statement did not mention tens of thousands of Palestinians injured and over 23,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli terror machine, leaving thousands more missing, mostly women and children. The Minister spoke solely about the Israeli perspective, ignoring the existence of a Palestinian side.

The right to self-defense was also mentioned in the statement, unevenly granted and denied to parties involved. Occupying states don’t have the right to self-defense against an occupied land, disregarding all recognized international principles for self-defense; necessity, proportionality, and simultaneity. These terms are clearly out of line with the actions of the occupying power; terms more appropriate would be aggression, war crimes, and massacres.

The repeated emphasis on “terrorism” is questioned, especially considering the questionable nature of many Israeli narratives. Nonetheless, can it serve as a justification to destroy homes, bomb religious places, schools, and hospitals, target vehicles and ambulances, and enforce collective punishment on two million people by restricting access to water, food, and medicine? Does this justify the occupation army and settler groups’ terrorism in the West Bank and Jerusalem?

Does the “Human Shield” claim justify the death of over 1% of the population of Gaza, by the Israeli self-proclaimed “world’s most advanced war machine”? If the Israeli apartheid state, which purports to uphold democracy and army morality, is capable of such military powers, it is either incapable of distinguishing between military and civilian targets or deliberately murders every living thing in the besieged Gaza Strip. To bring justice to the victims in both cases—who are more than
just names and numbers—a full investigation is necessary.