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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestinians have Right to Armed Struggle - Chinese Envoy to ICJ</h1>February 22, 2024</div>
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Ma Xinmin, Chinese representative to ICJ. (Photo: via UN website)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>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.</span></h3>
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<p><span>“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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.”</span></p>
<p><span>“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.</span></p>
<p><span>The International Court of Justice in The Hague is currently
hearing arguments over the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
Territories. </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Ma also noted that the conflict stems “from Israel’s
prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory and Israel’s longstanding
oppression of the Palestinian people.”</span></p>
<p><span>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.”</span></p>
<h4><strong>Colonizers and Colonized</strong></h4>
<p><span>“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,</span></p>
<p><span>“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.</span></p>
<p><span>“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.”</span></p>
<h4><strong>Crime of Genocide</strong></h4>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. </span></p>
<p><span>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><i><span>(PC, Anadolu)</span></i></p>
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