Rasheed, who concludes her mission here, considered that her performance has been “complicated” due to Uruguay’s positions “of not pronouncing itself” on issues that “clearly are violations of international law”.

The diplomat questioned Uruguay’s abstentions in the United Nations and statements when “what Israel is doing is a crime against humanity, it is genocide”.

I have been very sincere in this, as a representative of Palestine, that we have not understood Uruguay’s position by not pronouncing on these issues, she told La Diaria.

What we want from the government of Uruguay is a reasoned position as it has taken on other issues that it considers human rights violations, she demanded. She said the Palestinian people have faced dispossession, exile and occupation for more than 76 years, long before the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. We have suffered five wars in Gaza before this genocide. We have suffered the violation of every single right recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, during every day of our lives under Israeli rule, he added.

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