OPINION: Certain African states have lost their revolutionary spirit, abandoning the Palestinians at the most desperate time in their fight for the liberation of their land, writes Shannon Ebrahim. AfricanUnion Israel Palestine
The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and other organisations have said that the 11 day Israeli military onslaught on Gaza in May this year likely constituted “war crimes”.
The Algerian government also condemned the decision to grant Israel observer status, saying that Israel’s practices and behaviour “are totally incompatible with the values, principles, and objectives enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union.” Namibia and a number of other African countries have rejected Israel’s observer status.
A number of political parties and social movements on the continent have joined forces to demand that AU member states reject Israel’s accreditation, and that the matter should be placed on the agenda of the next session of the AU Executive Council.
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