"Zomlot said the recognition of a Palestinian state was about righting historic wrongs and committing together to a future based on freedom, dignity and fundamental human rights. He called on people to remember that this recognition comes at a time of unimaginable pain and suffering as a genocide is being waged against us a genocide that is still being denied and allowed to continue with impunity. He continued: It comes as our people in Gaza are being starved, bombed, and buried under the rubble of their homes; as our people in the West Bank are being ethnically cleansed, brutalised by daily state-sponsored terrorism, land theft and suffocating oppression."
"Zomlot said the recognition was occurring as the humanity of Palestinian people is still questioned, our lives still treated as disposable and our basic freedoms still denied. Yet, this moment stands as a defiant act of truth, a refusal to let genocide be the final word; a refusal to accept that occupation is permanent; a refusal to be erased and a refusal to be dehumanised, he concluded."
The Palestinian flag was raised outside what is now Palestine's embassy to the United Kingdom in London after Britain formally recognised a Palestinian state. The flag-raising followed a speech by Palestine's Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot. Zomlot described the flag colours as signifying mourning, hope, land, and sacrifice and said the recognition aims to right historic wrongs and commit to a future of freedom, dignity and human rights. He said the recognition comes amid extreme suffering in Gaza and the West Bank, citing starvation, bombing, ethnic cleansing, land theft, daily brutality and denials of Palestinian humanity and freedoms.
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