Greece as a friend of Israel and Palestine “it can play a very important mediating role” pointed out the Palestinian ambassador Yussef Dorkhom in a press conference he granted today.

“Greece always maintains a balance in international relations,” he noted.

“It is the birthplace of culture and democracy and we look forward to a positive role. He has always been in favor of the two-state solution and the right of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state in the 1967 territories with East Jerusalem as its capital.” “Greece has historically been in favor of international law“, said the ambassador.

He said that “the Palestinian people are living today in a dark day” and condemned the aggression against Gaza. “The latest heinous crime was the one committed last night against the Al Ahli Hospital of the Anglican Church in Gaza, when Israeli aircraft bombed the building targeting doctors, nurses, entire families who had taken refuge there,” he stressed. But, as he said, “the biggest crime is the disorientation from this crime. The Israeli media has already started propaganda and is shooting international public opinion with bullets full of hate and poison. Have you seen our children, full of blood? What else does the world need to condemn Israel’s crime?»

As he pointed out, all efforts for peace have stopped after the bombing of the hospital. He also noted that “Israel is lying when it claims that the hospital was not hit by the Israeli air force, but by a rocket that was fired by mistake.

The proof Israel cites is a video it attributes to Al Jazeera and which was later retracted from all official Israeli accounts when a New York Times reporter noticed that the time stamp on the video said 19:59 to 20:00, while the attack took place at 19:20, 40 whole minutes before the particular video”.

Yussef Dorkhom was asked about his position towards Hamas and whether he considers it a terrorist organization and stated that the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the PLO is fully bound by all international conventions and international law.

He described the attack on the hospital in Gaza as a crime against humanity, while he spoke of 3,600 dead civilians since the beginning of the latest crisis with Israel. “We repeat to the whole world that permanent peace in the Middle East will not be achieved without our people obtaining their legal rights with the establishment of the independent Palestinian state in the territories of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital,” he said. “The international community must give a chance to peace in the region and this can only be done by providing the Palestinian people with their legal right to an independent state,” he emphasized.