[Marxistindia] Resolution adopted at the 24th Congress of CPI(M)

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Resolution

 

Condemn Israel's Genocidal Attacks on Gaza

 

The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns
Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza and demands an immediate and permanent
ceasefire. Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza, Palestine after the
October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. More than 50,021 Palestinians have been killed
and thousands more injured in this barbaric onslaught. 

 

Israel restarted its attacks on Gaza immediately after the completion of the
first phase of ceasefire. Since then, it has cut the supply of food, water,
fuel, aid and all other essentials to Gaza. Israel intends to strangulate
and push Gaza towards starvation. It carried out attacks on hospitals, aid
convoys, UN refugee shelters, schools, masjids and churches, leaving no
space safe in Gaza. 60 per cent of the people killed in Israel's attacks are
women and children. Journalists and UN aid workers were also targeted and
killed. Crops were destroyed. All these attacks demonstrate the genocidal
character of the Israeli State. The International Court of Justice (ICJ)
taking cognisance of it, issued arrest warrants on Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders.

 

Israel is actively encouraging Zionist settlers to occupy Palestinian land
in the West Bank and establish Jewish settlements. In this manner, it is
slowly annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank. All these acts are
intended to drive away Palestinians from their homeland and completely annex
Palestine, as a part of realising its agenda of establishing Greater Israel.

 

The United States and other imperialist countries in Western Europe are
actively supporting Israel in its attack on Palestine by arming and standing
by it in international forums. Trump's announcement of his condemnable plans
for converting Gaza into a tourist paradise by pushing out all Palestinians
living there, suits Israel's interests.

 

The BJP central government watered down the long-held official position of
India on Palestine. Instead of resolutely standing with the people of
Palestine and demanding action on Israel, the BJP government is now siding
with Israel. As a result, for the first time, India voted against or
abstained on UN resolutions demanding a ceasefire and condemning Israel.
Such positions dented India's credibility among the developing countries and
it is now seen as an ally of Israel and the US.

 

In order to defend its positions, the BJP, along with the Sangh Parivar is
projecting the Israeli attack on Gaza as a religious war. The RSS shares
close ideological bonds with the Zionists in identifying nationality with
religion and their hatred towards Muslims. It is this ideological affinity
that is behind the BJP government's support to Israel.

 

The 24th Congress of the CPI(M) demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel should be declared as an apartheid State and acted against
accordingly. It demands that the BJP government stop supporting Israel and
revert to the established Indian policy of supporting Palestine. Lasting
peace in the region is possible only by the establishment of a Palestinian
State, with East Jerusalem as its capital and with pre-1967 borders.

 

The 24th Congress expresses its solidarity with the people of Palestine, and
calls upon the Indian people to stand firmly with the people of Palestine in
their just struggle for their homeland.

 

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