Palestine expects no Bangladesh-Israel alliance: CDA

Palestine expects that no political party, individual and organisation in Bangladesh will forge allegiance with Israel, Palestine charge d’ affairs in Dhaka Yousef SY Ramadan said on Saturday.
Replying to a question on a meeting between a BNP joint secretary general and an Israel national in India, the CDA said, ‘Our hope is that these things will not be repeated.’
‘Any party, any person or organisation which will have an allegiance with Israel, Yousef said, ‘will commit suicide, a political suicide. People of Bangladesh will not allow to that to happen.’
Palestine embassy organised the press conference on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of Nakba Day today (May 15).
Aslam Chowdhury, a BNP joint secretary general, recently held a meeting with Israel national Mendi Safadi in India.
The CDA said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir went to the Palestine embassy to explain the position of the party about the meeting between Aslam Chowdhury and Mendi Safadi.
He [Mirza Fakhrul] categorically denied any allegiance between the party and Israel and said Aslam did not represent the party.
The Palestine embassy demanded a statement from the BNP about the meeting and Mirza Alamgir made it the next day, he said.
Asked about what information they had about the motive of Safadi in meeting a Bangladesh political leader, he said the motive of Israel ‘is to open an access into Bangladesh’.
Israel can do anything including destabilise a country to materialise its motive, Yousef said.
Asked about the content of his recent meeting with prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the CDA said he requested the prime minister to build up economic relations between Palestine and Bangladesh and to award products of Palestine duty-free access into Bangladesh.
Yousef said ‘Al-Nakba’, an Arabic word, which means ‘the catastrophe’ that refers to the destruction of hundreds of cities and villages in historical Palestine and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their ancestral homes to make way for the new state of Israel in 1948.
He said an estimated 7,00,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their own lands and hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated and destroyed by the Zionist organisations. After occupying the Palestinian land illegally by force, Israeli Zionist authorities raised their flag in the land of Palestine.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians hold marches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and in Palestinian refugee camps in neighboring countries to commemorate the passage of 68 years since the ‘Nakba’, he said.
The CDA also expressed determination of the Palestine people to continue struggle for their independence.

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