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Santiago de Chile, Sep 27. - During a day of reflection on Palestine, at the College of Journalists of Chile, several speakers today called on the international community to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has already left 41,500 dead.
“The situation in Gaza is tremendously complex, it is between 85 and 90 percent destroyed, hospitals, universities, schools, homes and health centers were demolished,” the academic from the Center for Arab Studies of the University of Chile told Prensa Latina, Ricardo Marzuca.
On the other hand, he said, almost two million Palestinians have been displaced, epidemics have broken out, such as a polio outbreak, there is a situation of extermination and unfortunately a ceasefire has not been achieved.
The academic denounced that Israel continues to receive support in arms from the United States and European powers, such as Germany and Great Britain, with impunity to perpetrate this crime against humanity.
Given the context of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and other occupied territories, as well as in southern Lebanon, we all have the obligation to raise our voices, contribute our knowledge and build spaces for communication, he said.
Marzuca spoke this Thursday in the panel “History, territory and Palestinian heritage” of the training and information day on the subject, also sponsored by organizations of solidarity with that people.
Mauricio Amar, from the Eugenio Chahuán Center for Arab Studies, highlighted that this event allows us to talk about the situation in Palestine both in historical terms from 1948 to the present day, and about the genocide that is being committed in Gaza, the West Bank and also in Lebanon.
He explained that in Chile, a country that has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside the Arab world, efforts have been made to create spaces for information and dissemination of reality and to form action groups to defend the cause of that people.
The academic advocated for a reform of the UN, so that its members have greater decision-making capacity, and recalled that in the Security Council the United States has vetoed any resolution against the massacre in Gaza.
Amar appreciated the efforts that are being made at a global level, such as South Africa's lawsuit against Israel in The Hague, but warned about the inability of international law actors to intervene in a case where there is evidently genocide.
In his opinion, the only solution to the conflict is the decolonization of the Palestinian territory, despite the fact that today this path is not seen as an immediate possibility.
Various topics such as human rights, the impact of war on physical and mental integrity, international institutions, the treatment of the conflict in the media and professional ethics were addressed.
The day included a tribute to the press professionals murdered in the occupied territories who, according to the Union of Palestinian Journalists, number more than 130. (Text and Photo: Carmen Esquivel/ PL)
