The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Azerbaijan has issued a statement regarding the latest events.

The statement says: “To lose a loved one suddenly is dreadful, especially in an act of violence. In the last few days, horrifying images have been searingly radiating from Palestine, watching a heartbreaking tragedy recurring in repetitive appalling familiarity, except this time was the first when the penetrating immeasurable pain was shared on both sides. We are against targeting civilians by whoever and mourn all the lost innocent lives everywhere. And we know Palestinian innocent lives have been at the receiving end for decades and as precious as any other.”

“Some of the powers that be on the world stage, the purported gatekeepers of international law, and their prejudiced media readily adopt and propagate unsubstantiated allegations concocted by Israel’s hasbara in an effort tinged by a supercilious orientalist mindset to dehumanize the Palestinian people.

Against a plethora of hundreds of UN resolutions and International Humanitarian Laws, we have not heard the same outrage and sanctimonious grandstanding from those world powers. The irony is these same powers give lip service to the two-state solution but refuse to recognize the occupied State of Palestine in contrast to the UN and more than two-thirds of the planet, a substantive and symbolic gesture whose only implication is to give impetus to a moribund peace process,” the statement emphasizes.

“The Palestinian leadership, well-known commitment to peaceful resolution, has been warning for years that the status quo is unsustainable in the absence of any political horizon.

The Palestinian people, deserve and have all the right to live in dignity in their independent state with East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its capital, to live in peace on par with all peoples.

The genuine address for peace is Palestine, not geopolitical somersaults,” the document notes.