Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI
Palestine under attack
		The situation for the peoples of the Middle East is dire – the time has come to build an international coalition to isolate the warmongers for as long as they continue their violent campaign, argues AQEL TAQAZ
	 
			THE of the war of annihilation against the Palestinian people is “on hold” in the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire there and currently manifests in the violent disbandment by Israel of the refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem in the West Bank — and the systematic destruction of everything that exists within them.
This should leave onlookers under no doubt as to the ultimate objective of the Israeli forces.
It was not the removal of the threat of Hamas or the rescue of the hostages they took, as they claimed to the world. It was the forcible displacement of the Palestinians from their homes and the pushing of them into migrating elsewhere in a naked act of ethnic cleansing.
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