[News] Palestinians have Right to Armed Struggle - Chinese Envoy to ICJ

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Palestinians have Right to Armed Struggle - Chinese Envoy to ICJFebruary
22, 2024
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Ma Xinmin, Chinese representative to ICJ. (Photo: via UN website)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

Addressing the International Court of Justice on Thursday, the Chinese
representative said the Palestinians’ use of armed struggle to gain
independence from foreign and colonial rule is “legitimate” and
“well-founded” in international law.

“In pursuit of the right to self-determination, Palestinian people’s use of
force to resist foreign oppression and complete the establishment of an
independent state is (an) inalienable right well founded in international
law,” Ma Xinmin told the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Citing resolutions by the UN General Assembly, Beijing’s envoy to the top
world court said that people struggling for self-determination could use
“all available means, including armed struggle.”

“The struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to
self-determination, including armed struggle against colonialism,
occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be
considered terror acts,” Ma stated in his address to the ICJ, citing
international conventions.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague is currently hearing
arguments over the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories.

Israel’s practices and policies of “oppression have severely undermined and
impeded the exercise and full realization of the Palestinian people’s right
to self-determination,” the Chinese envoy noted.

Ma also noted that the conflict stems “from Israel’s prolonged occupation
of Palestinian territory and Israel’s longstanding oppression of the
Palestinian people.”

Therefore, according to the Chinese representative, “the Palestinian
peoples’ fight against Israeli oppression and their struggle for completing
the establishment of an independent state under occupied territory are
essentially just actions.”
*Colonizers and Colonized*

“Palestinians have been victimized by Israeli colonialism, military
occupation, racial apartheid, siege and now genocide,” Palestinian
journalist and political analyst Ramzy Baroud wrote in a recent article,

“The Palestinian right to self-defense can be established. In 1973, the
Assembly passed Resolution 3076, XXVII. The language was unambiguous;
people have the right to struggle against colonial foreign domination by
all possible means, including armed struggle,” Baroud added.

“It is interesting how the colonists and the colonized continue to build
relations and solidarity around the same old principles. The Global South
is, again, rising in solidarity with the Palestinians, while the North,
with a few exceptions, continues to support Israeli oppression.”
*Crime of Genocide*

For the first time since its establishment in 1948, Israel is also
currently being tried before the ICJ on charges of committing the crime of
“genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 29,410 Palestinians have been
killed, and 69,465 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on
October 7.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under
the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those
killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of
nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast
majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of
Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest
mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

*(PC, Anadolu)*
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