The Palestinian Embassy in Accra has issued a strongly-worded statement condemning newly enacted Israeli legislation, calling it a direct assault on Palestinian human rights, international law, and the foundations of the global legal order.
The Embassy's statement, addressed to governments, regional bodies including the African Union, parliaments, trade unions, and civil society organizations, describes the law as part of a deliberate and systematic campaign to entrench Israel's illegal occupation while shielding it from accountability.
The statement pulls no punches in its framing; the law, the Embassy argues, is not an isolated legislative act but a pillar of a broader apartheid architecture, one designed to silence resistance, starve humanitarian relief, and normalize the killing and imprisonment of Palestinians on the basis of identity alone.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners, the Embassy notes, are held under conditions that violate basic standards of human dignity — tried before Israeli military courts that United Nations bodies and international human rights organizations have repeatedly condemned as lacking any semblance of independence or fairness.
The Embassy further invokes the International Court of Justice's landmark advisory opinion affirming the illegality of Israel's occupation and the full applicability of international humanitarian law in Palestinian territory — rendering any legislation enacted under that occupation legally void.
Crucially, the statement takes direct aim at the international community's pattern of empty rhetoric, warning that "silence or mere rhetorical condemnation contributes to entrenching a culture of impunity." Words without action, the Embassy insists, are complicity.
Among its demands: official condemnation of the law as null and void, targeted sanctions against those responsible, activation of international judicial accountability mechanisms, and urgent protection for Palestinian prisoners.
The statement closes with an unambiguous declaration of resolve, that no policy of oppression will break the Palestinian people's commitment to statehood, sovereignty, and self-determination on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Embassy's full statement is attached.