Yemen's parliamentary delegation withdraws during Israel's speech at the General Assembly in protest of the occupation's crimes in Gaza and Lebanon (Video)

The Yemeni parliamentary delegation withdrew on Tuesday, after the Israeli occupation representative spoke at the General Assembly of the Parliamentary Union in Geneva, in protest against the crimes of genocide committed by the occupation in Gaza and Lebanon.

A video - published by the Yemeni Parliament website - showed the withdrawal of the Yemeni delegation and the Arab group while the Israeli representative was speaking at the 149th General Assembly session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

The Yemeni delegation includes Speaker of the House of Representatives Sheikh Sultan Al-Barkani, MPs Saleh Al-Amri, Sultan Al-Atwani, Mohammed Al-Qabati, and Abdullah Al-Katib. The presence of the Yemeni Ambassador to Switzerland and Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ambassador Dr. Ali Mujawar.

The withdrawal of our country's delegation and the Arab group during the speech of the Israeli representative at the 149th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Geneva 15 October 2024 https://t.co/auVhnk4P2L pic.twitter.com/g7eYSlqgST

— Yemeni Parliament (@YemParliament) October 15, 2024

The emergency item submitted by Palestine and Algeria and supported by the Arab Parliamentary Group on the Palestinian issue was presented and received wide support and welcome from the various participating parliaments during its presentation.

The Yemeni delegation voted in favor of the emergency item presented by Palestine and rejected the rest of the items presented, especially those presented by the Israeli occupation delegation, as the Yemeni parliament delegation withdrew while the Israeli occupation delegation was presenting their own item.

The withdrawal of the Yemeni delegation and the Arab group was in protest and rejection of the occupation clause, which they are trying to impose in light of their hideous criminal practices against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, according to what was stated on the official website of the "Yemeni Parliament."

He continued, "Our brothers in Gaza are being subjected to the killing of children, women and elderly, the complete destruction of the Strip and the commission of the most heinous crimes against humanity."

The occupation war in Gaza and Lebanon

For more than a year, the Israeli occupation has continued its crimes of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the war has expanded for about a month in brutal attacks and a ground incursion into southern Lebanon, while the resistance continues to confront the occupation.

The Gaza war entered its 376th day today, Wednesday, as the Israeli occupation army continues to commit daily massacres, especially in the northern areas of the Strip, which it has been besieging for more than 11 days.

The occupation is carrying out a campaign of extermination and starvation against the Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, while intensifying its raids, shooting, destruction and burning of homes in order to implement its plan to displace the population and separate the northern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the occupation committed four massacres during the past 24 hours, resulting in 55 martyrs and 329 wounded arriving at hospitals, thus raising the death toll from the Israeli aggression to 42,344 martyrs and 99,013 wounded since October 7.

In Lebanon, the Israeli occupation army continues its wide-scale aggression in the south, for the twenty-fourth consecutive day, leaving behind more martyrs and victims, while Hezbollah intensifies its strikes on the positions, bases, deployments of the occupation army and its settlements in northern occupied Palestine.