Israel is offering us ‘genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid’: Palestinian FM

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Israeli leaders are offering genocide and ethnic cleansing to Palestinian people, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said at a UN Security Council meeting on Gaza, TRT World reports.

Al Maliki said on Tuesday Israel had denied Palestinians existence, rights and humanity — whether in besieged Gaza, the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, or Palestinian refugees or Palestinian prisoners.

“They do not see our people as an empirical and political reality to exist with, but as a demographic threat to get rid of through this displacement or subjugation,” he said.

“These are the choices they offer us: genocide, ethnic cleansing or apartheid. I know some here are uncomfortable with these words, but they are the reality that we live under,” al-Maliki said.

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