Baghdad: Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives Mohsen Al-Mandlawi welcomed, today, Tuesday, the UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and its support for the complete withdrawal of the usurping occupation forces and the return of residents to their areas in a safe manner and ensuring the arrival of humanitarian aid and rejecting any demographic change within the Strip.

Al-Mandlawi called in a statement “on the international community, especially Arab and Islamic countries, to pressure the Israeli entity to implement this resolution by stopping the aggressive operations and an urgent ceasefire to protect civilians, expressing his surprise at the “unjustified” silence of many countries over the past months, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of thousands of Palestinians, in addition to a severe shortage of health services, food and humanitarian needs.”

He continued, “The Security Council resolution primarily expresses the international community’s rejection
of the massacres and genocides carried out by the usurping entity, stressing the need for cooperation between Arab and Islamic countries and all countries that reject immediate response to this resolution calling for stopping the bloodshed and adopting a request to the Security Council to criminalize the entity for committing bloody massacres that our modern history has not witnessed and to demand the end of its existence that has become a threat to all of humanity.”

The Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives reiterated “Iraq’s rejection of any attempts to normalize relations with this usurping entity and its rejection of its presence on our Arab lands in any form, in addition to establishing the principle of establishing an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency