Palestine expects the international community to stand for international and humanitarian law, according to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin.

“What has been going on in Palestine for the past 22 months is nothing but a genocide, and it’s part and parcel of Israel’s expansionist ideology that wants to take over the entirety of the occupied state of Palestine,” she told Al Jazeera from Ramallah.

She said, if the US and President Donald Trump want to forge peace, they need to look at the rights of the Palestinians because there will be no true peace in Israel, Palestine, the region or even the world at large if the rights of Palestinians that are protected by the UN Charter are not respected.

The Palestinians need to decide about the leadership in the Gaza Strip because the legal authority in Gaza today is the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, and if Gaza “wants to come back to the core” and change governance, then it has to come under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.