Libel: Israel uses chemical and biological weapons against Palestinians, claims PA, saying Israel "used chemical weapons against Palestinians and Israeli settlers have burned Palestinian families using chemicals"
Headline: “Palestine demands to send an international biological investigative team to the settlements”
"[PA] Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates [Riyad Al-Malki’s] aide on the UN and its functional organizations Omar Al-Awadallah demanded to send a biological investigative team to the settlements to check the laboratories in these settlements, which were illegally established on the occupied Palestinian land, including Jerusalem.
He said this during the Palestinian state’s speech in the discussions of the Biological Weapons Convention member states committee, which is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.
The State of Palestine’s speech emphasized commitment to the international conventions that it has joined, including those dealing with weapons of mass destruction disarmament…
The speech mentioned the obstacles standing in the way of the State of Palestine in implementing the conventions, and foremost among them the illegal Israeli occupation and its control over the crossings and borders. This is in addition to the uncertainty regarding what is being developed inside the illegal settlements on the land of the State of Palestine and the settlers’ terror, which exposes a danger of this kind of weapon and other kinds of weapons being used against our people.
In a response to the representative of Israel, the occupying regime, which attempted to attack the State of Israel’s efforts and its commitment to the agreement, Al-Awadallah refused to allow the occupying regime’s representative to speak at the conference. He emphasized that the occupation that targets children and women is not only illegal but also immoral, and he noted that its behavior is unpredictable because it does not uphold international conventions and law.
Al-Awadallah noted that Israel is the only side that refuses the establishment of a weapons of mass destruction demilitarized zone in the Middle East, and that it is the only side that has nuclear weapons and that refuses to subject it to the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He added that it has used chemical weapons against the Palestinian people (sic.), and that its settlers have burned Palestinian families using chemicals (sic.).”