Rabat – on Tuesday, April 15th, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu ratified The third change in the Maldives Immigration Act after its adoption by the Majlis of the people – the unicameral -legislative authority of the country – on the same day.
“The ratification reflects the government’s permanent attitude to the persistent atrocities and ongoing genocide laws that Israel have committed to the Palestinian people,” says the official statement issued by the President of the President.
The Maldivian government confirmed its steadfast support for Palestine and confirmed its permanent commitment to the defense of the Palestinian rights and the demand for accountability for the systematic violations of Israel against international law.
The explanation also emphasized that the Maldives supports the existence of a sovereign Palestinian state on the basis of the borders before 1967, whereby Jerusalem stood as capital in accordance with resolutions of the United Nations and the specified international legal norms.
The borders before 1967, which were also known as the weapon border from 1949, holds the areas before the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the six-day war by Israel. These limits represent the internationally recognized borders for a future Palestinian state.
The original invoice suggests a ban on the Israeli pass owner was introduced Through the Maldivian Democratic Party of the opposition in May 2023. After a number of revisions, it was passed almost 300 days later.
In December 2023, Israel published a travel consultant against the visit of the Maldives and quoted an “reinforced anti-Israel atmosphere, including public comments from civil servants” in relation to the global outcry as the company’s genocide campaign began to develop in GAZA.
Official data show that 11,000 Israeli citizens visited the Maldives in 2024 and only made up 0.6% of the total origin. In February this year, newer data only recorded 59 Israeli visitors.
Israel forced an mandatory military design that requires most Jewish citizens serve In the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) from the age of 18, which means that the separation between the Israeli state and its civilian population does not exist functionally.
The IOF, which consists of these citizens, actively conducts apartheid, ethnic cleansing and the continuing genocide of the Palestinian people. The settlers’ coloniality of the Israeli state is also shown by the fact that its population exists ashore that the Palestinians were stolen on an estimated nine million Palestinians around the world.
