Israel carries out ‘genocide’ in Gaza, imposes ‘apartheid’ on West Bank – Kanaan

AMMAN — The Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip is being raged in conjunction with an apartheid campaign in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, Secretary-General of the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs Abdullah Kanaan said on Monday.

Kanaan told the Jordan News Agency, Petra, that 464 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of 2023, including 257 since October 7, in addition to arresting over 3,500 Palestinians since the outbreak of the war on Gaza.

Besides the thousands of deaths and injuries, and the destructions of hundreds of thousands of homes with tonnes of bombs on Gaza, Kanaan said that the Israeli occupation forces is carrying out s fierce attacks and “killing campaigns” in the West Bank.

The secretary-general added that Israel is carrying out its crimes in front of the "eyes of a world that pretends democracy and human rights".

Kanaan stressed the importance of stopping the “double-standard approach” towards the crimes of the occupation, calling for an immediate protection for the Palestinian people that are deprived of their simplest rights of life.

He said that the government of the occupation must be aware that security and peace cannot be achieved with killing the Palestinian people and destroying their homes.

Kanaan stressed that the West Bank, including Jerusalem, as per international legitimacy resolutions, is an occupied land and that Israel's procedures of building settlements and destroying houses are “null and void”.