Governor dodges question over his position on Israel threats to Rafah
This comes as BBC News reported that the Israeli military campaign has killed 29,000 people in the Palestinian territory, according to the Hamas-run health ministry there.
Palestinians facing threat
Now living in the narrow crevices between the tents that crowd nearly every inch of the Rafah, Palestinians face a greater threat from Israeli ground offensive that can be devastating.
This has sparked calls from UN member countries for a ceasefire to prevent what some have described as genocide. The UN has issued its own warning that a planned Israeli offensive in the city could lead to a "slaughter".
When asked about his position on the current offensive by Israel and whether he supports a ceasefire, Governor of the Virgin Islands H.E. Daniel Pruce dodged the question, rather, stating the UK’s position and that of the Foreign Secretary.
“The UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has expressed concern about the about the prospect of a military offensive in Rafah. Over half of Gaza’s population are sheltering in Rafah, and the crossing is vital to ensuring aid can reach those who desperately need it,” Governor Pruce told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO).
He added, “The UK has been clear that the priority must be an immediate pause to get aid in and hostages out, then progress towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire and have set out the steps needed to achieve this.”
1.5M people in Rafah
Meanwhile, Rafah has swelled in size in recent weeks as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have splayed out across the city in tents or at the homes of friends or relatives according to reports from Aljazeera.
With an estimated 1.5 million people sheltering there, more than half of Gaza’s population now have nowhere to flee in the face of Israel’s offensive that has leveled large swaths of the urban landscape in the rest of the territory.
Israel says, however, that it must take Rafah to ensure the destruction of Hamas and the freeing of Israeli hostages still held by them.
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The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia on the Balfor Declaration: .”The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
Balfour Declaration
The original letter from Balfour to Rothschild; the declaration reads:
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Created
2 November 1917
Location
British Library
Author(s)
Walter Rothschild, Arthur Balfour, Leo Amery, Lord Milner
Signatories
Arthur James Balfour
Purpose
Confirming support from the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a "national home" for the Jewish people, with two Conditions…..” Additionally , the British had mandate for Palestine from 1917-1948. Where the British has been there is problem.
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