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PCP condemns the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people

PCP condemns the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people

1 - The PCP strongly condemns the criminal military offensive against the Gaza Strip and its population. An offensive of continuous and indiscriminate bombings that has resulted in, until the early hours of July 8, in about 30 dead, including 8 children, 150 injured and hundreds left homeless.
This offensive culminates a period of intensification of a continuing repressive action by the Israeli occupation army in the entire territory of Palestine, aggravated since June 12- allegedly as a result of the disappearance and subsequent confirmation of the death of three young men from a Israeli settlement in unclear circumstances - with a campaign of collective punishment against Palestinian villages, with the indiscriminate demolition of houses, killings and imprisonment of hundreds of people, including dozens of children and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

2 – Israel’s criminal actions against the Palestinian people - which now takes the form of yet another large-scale armed aggression - confirms what has been obvious: the so-called negotiation process staged by the US had no other aim but to try impose and consecrate the acceptance of an effective occupation of Palestine and the capitulation and abdication of the national rights of the Palestinian people.

3 – As the statements by senior US Administration officials confirm, the Israeli military campaign underway is supported by the continuing political, diplomatic and military support of the United States of America and by the attitude of the European Union who hides with silence or conceals under a false equidistant speech, the effective complicity with the policy of Israeli state terrorism.

4 – Israel’s illegal and illegitimate aggression against Palestine is inseparable from imperialism’s wide offensive in the context of capitalism’s worsening structural crisis, which seeks to subject the peoples to its domination and interests and ensure for its benefit the exploitation of the natural resources and control of geostrategic positions. This operation, which extends from central Europe to the Far East, from Africa to Latin America, and assumes in some cases fascistic contours, has in the Middle East one of its main targets. An operation which seeks to impose a new political map for the region favourable to imperialism’s aims by means of permanent destabilization and "Balkanization" of the region. In this context, Israel’s action raises more concern, seriously heightening the existing risk of widespread military confrontation of unpredictable dimensions and contours.

5 - The PCP expresses its active solidarity with the Palestinian people, for their heroic and determined resistance and struggle for national liberation in view of the genocidal policy of the State of Israel. The PCP also expresses its solidarity with the peoples of the region, namely the Syrian people, victims of political interference and war waged by the US and its allies in NATO and in the region.

6 - The PCP demands from the Portuguese Government a firm position condemning of yet another military offensive by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people and calls for the mobilization of public opinion and expression of feelings of active solidarity of the Portuguese people with the heroic and martyred people of Palestine, an expression all the more important since 2014 was declared the International Year of Solidarity with Palestine.

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