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Abdelhady-Nasser

lines on the record: 110
first: 2008-07-22
most recent: 2022-10-20
sittings or episodes: 9
sources: un-security-council

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“As Israel has openly declared its intent to continue its illegal occupation and all its illegal practices, we call on the Security Council to act. The Council must adopt measures in line with international law, including its own resolutions, to hold Israel accountable and provide protection to the Palestinian people, including women. Only by ending impunity and achieving accountability can the Palestinian people, including its women, be enabled to finally realize their rights to live in peace, security and dignity. In conclusion, I convey the solidarity of Palestine’s women with all women around the world who struggle against violence and oppression and strive for justice, peace and better lives for themselves, their families, their communities, their nations and our world.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“All of that is being done for the sole purpose of maintaining the illegal colonial occupation and its subjugation, persecution and domination of the Palestinian people under a system of apartheid. There can be no doubt that the Israeli occupation remains the main obstacle to achieving women’s rights and peace and security in occupied Palestine. The impact is generational, continual and enormous. At its first meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, which was held in June, the Informal Expert Group on Women, Peace and Security of the Security Council called on Israel to cease “all measures that affect the physical and psychological well-being and that have an impact on all aspects of the daily lives of Palestinian women living under occupation” (S/2022/557, annex, p. 4).”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Other forms of such violence and terror include the confiscation and annexation of lands; the construction of settlements and the annexation wall; home demolitions and expulsions; forced displacement; the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip; and the systematic denial of Palestinians’ basic and inalienable rights, including their fundamental right to return, to self-determination and to live in peace and security. Moreover, Israel targets human rights defenders, including women. While their protection has been among the primary demands in this Chamber today, Israel has instead launched a hostile campaign against them, going so far as to designate Palestinian civil- society organizations, including the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, as terrorist organizations.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“But despite all the gains made, Palestinian women continue to face immense challenges and are paying the heaviest price for the ongoing injustice being done to the Palestinian people. The reality faced by Palestinian women and their families is one of widespread violence and terror inflicted both by the Israeli occupying army and the Israeli settlers, who wilfully kill and injure civilians, including women and their children, carry out arbitrary arrests and unlawful detentions and practise physical and psychological harassment and intimidation at checkpoints.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Similarly, we have established a national committee for implementing Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), and with Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16 in mind we have developed a national action plan for the period from 2020 to 2024 that focuses on the four pillars of prevention and protection, accountability, participation and relief and recovery. Work is under way to provide sustainable social, legal, psychosocial and health, shelter and protection services to women and girls to meet their needs and enable them to thrive. We are also working on building women’s capacities as front-liners and early responders to conflict-related emergencies and humanitarian crises. In fact, a Palestinian woman, as Minister of Health, has successfully led our national response to the coronavirus disease.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“In fact, though Palestine remains deprived of independence, we would point to many of our experiences as representing best practices long supported by the international community, including UN-Women. The State of Palestine acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2014 and established a national committee to harmonize national legislation with international treaties. Despite countless obstructions by the illegal Israeli occupation and societal constraints, we have persisted with that effort.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Palestine remains committed to preserving the gains of our historic women’s movement and pledges to continue engaging and supporting our younger generation of women and girls in all aspects of life, with the human security perspective being central to all our efforts. We are committed to protecting women from violence and discrimination; promoting their full and equal participation at all decision-making levels, whether in peacebuilding, conflict resolution or negotiations, including our reconciliation dialogue; and promoting their empowerment to ensure individual well- being, as well as their collective contribution to national recovery and the development and strengthening of national capacities.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“They have demonstrated leadership in conflict-affected countries and humanitarian emergencies, and their work has been essential to maintaining social cohesion, fostering resilience and promoting stability, even against formidable odds. They must be protected and supported. The indispensability of their role is amplified today against a backdrop of converging global crises that are affecting every country and people. Women must be a central part of the solutions we seek. In our country, Palestinian women have long played a prominent role in leading and shaping the national liberation struggle and carrying their share of the nation’s burdens. Since its inauguration in 1929, the Palestinian Women’s Movement has been a unifying force, helping to rally our people around one identity and one national vision for justice and freedom.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“On behalf of the State of Palestine, I express our appreciation for Gabon’s leadership of the Security Council this month and for its convening of this important debate on women and peace and security. I also thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Bahous, the African Union Special Envoy, Ms. Bineta Diop, and Ms. Zahra Nader for their briefings. The women and peace and security agenda is a crisis- prevention agenda, but it is also a life agenda. Women’s networks, including women human rights defenders, have long been lifelines for their communities.”
2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source
“We urge it to pursue accountability measures without delay and to act now to ensure international protection to Palestinian civilians, in particular children, including through continued and enhanced support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and its vital child-protection services and assistance to refugee children, in order to spare them more loss and suffering. International law and the Council’s resolutions provide the tools for accountability and protection; we implore the Council to use them.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The passage of 25 years since the adoption of the mandate on children and armed conflict has proved that listing and delisting remains the most powerful tool of accountability and an effective deterrent and guarantee of child protection. In that regard, we take note of the Secretary-General’s warning that Israel is to be listed should it repeat its 2021 attacks against Palestinian children in 2022. However, we must reiterate our calls on the Secretary-General to list Israel now for the war crimes it has been methodically and constantly committing against Palestinian children year after year in order to hold Israel fully accountable for its appalling record on child rights. We have heard today over and over again that accountability is essential for protecting children, and we call on the Security Council to stand against impunity.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Since the start of 2022, Israel has killed at least 16 Palestinian children in a pattern of extrajudicial and wilful killings. Such shocking and deplorable facts cannot be ignored. In Masafer Yatta, 1,200 Palestinians are at imminent risk of forced eviction and displacement by the occupying Power. Among them, 580 Palestinian children are threatened with the loss of their homes, access to water, primary health care and schools, in grave breach of international humanitarian law, thus representing a war crime. That scenario repeats itself over and over again in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. An entire nation continues to suffer dispossession, displacement and the denial of rights. As I address the Council today, no Palestinian is safe, no Palestinian child is safe.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Even as the Special Representative and others stress the important role of child-protection partners on the ground, civil-society organizations in Palestine, such as Defence for Children International, are labelled terrorist organizations and banned by Israel in attempts to undermine their monitoring, reporting and advocacy, as well as to conceal the facts of Israel’s gross violations of children’s rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. As indicated in the Special Representative of the Secretary-General’s report, last year, among the nearly 3,000 grave violations recorded, Israel killed 78 Palestinian children, six of them during its 11-day aggression against the Gaza Strip in air strikes targeting densely populated neighbourhoods.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Israel’s targeting of Palestinian children in their homes, schools and streets in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, amounts to a structural pattern of abuse deliberately aimed at intimidating children and their families and causing trauma and insecurity to the whole of Palestinian society. The Israeli representative’s remarks, claiming that we purposely expose our children to such horrors, are dehumanizing and offensive and must be rejected.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Palestinian children, including girls, continue to experience violent arrest raids and abduction from their bedrooms in the middle of the night, traumatized by violent military interrogations without the presence of their parents or legal counsel, as well as attacks on their schools, delays in or deprivation of their access to medical care and constant harassment, intimidation, violence and abuse by the Israeli occupying forces and settlers. Those are all in flagrant violation of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The Council bears a great responsibility for safeguarding the rights of the child, protecting children and holding accountable the perpetrators of violations of children’s rights. In occupied Palestine, Palestinian children are being systematically targeted by Israel’s occupation and by its military forces and settler militias. They continue to be killed and maimed, detained and imprisoned, forcibly transferred and displaced, banned from returning to their towns and villages, with millions forced to remain refugees.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“I would like to convey the State of Palestine’s congratulations on Brazil’s able leadership of the Security Council this month and to thank you, Sir, for convening this important high-level debate on children and armed conflict. I also express our appreciation to the Secretary-General and Special Representative Gamba de Potgieter for the annual report on children and armed conflict (S/2022/493) and their advocacy and efforts to protect children. While there is hardly a child not affected by the coronavirus disease pandemic and the global food crisis, the impact has been most severe on children living in conflict, refugees and internally displaced and stateless children.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096Resumption1 (2022) · source
“The State of Palestine is committed to empowering women and girls and implementing resolution 1325 (2000), and we remain committed to making such strides hand in hand with the rest of the international community, imploring all , including the Security Council, to uphold their respective obligations.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“Their many contributions must be recognized, along with specific initiatives undertaken by women civil society groups, leaders and activists to implement resolution 1325 (2000). At the same time, women continue to mobilize to address the challenges posed by gender inequality, gender-based domestic violence, patriarchal societal norms and the need for legal reforms. As shown in recent protests by Palestinian women, while demanding liberation from occupation, they are also demanding liberation from patriarchy, racism and sexism, seeking full justice and equality. Serious Government efforts are also ongoing to reform and repeal laws that discriminate against women.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“Of the more than 300 Palestinians killed and more than 30,000 injured by the Israeli occupying forces, one in four have been women or children. We call once more on the international community, and particularly the Security Council, to assume its obligations to bring an end to these violations and this prolonged conflict, underscoring, inter alia, the clear provisions of resolution 1325 (2000) on the responsibilities for resolving and preventing conflicts. Despite that dismal backdrop, Palestinian women's resilience and resourcefulness have also been well documented, underscoring their capacity and the pivotal roles they play, not only in the daily functioning of our society, but also in the long-running building of our nation and the struggle for freedom and ajust, peaceful solution to the conflict.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“Since the start of the occupation, an estimated 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested and/or detained under Israeli military orders. As of September 2019, 43 women remained among the thousands of Palestinians imprisoned or detained by the occupying Power. The majority of women prisoners report being subjected to some form of ill treatment and even torture, including sexual, physical and psychological harassment, intimidation and assault. Palestinian women continue to be targeted by the occupying forces and extremist settlers, who continue to cause death and injury to our civilians, destroying homes and other properties and terrorizing Palestinian families. Peaceful women demonstrators in the weekly protests of the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip also continue to be targeted by the occupying forces.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“Alongside the rest of the international community, Palestine continues its efforts to implement resolution 1325 (2000) despite many obstacles, none more fierce than the 52-year illegal foreign occupation imposed on the Palestinian people, depriving them of their most fundamental human rights and affecting every dimension of life, with women disproportionately affected. While resolution 1325 (2000) emphasized the need to ensure the safety of women and girls in conflict, Palestinian women continue to be exposed to all forms of violence and human rights violations under occupation, measures of colonization, dispossession, collective punishment and blockade being the most virulent. Daily acts of violence gravely impact women and girls, impairing their rights, lives and livelihoods in countless devastating ways.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“As we approach 2020, a year of significant benchmarks and anniversaries - 75 years since the creation of the United nations, 25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and 20 years since the adoption ofresolution 1325 (2000) - we must reflect on progress made and commitments yet unfulfilled. Despite many strides, there remains a considerable gap between promises and pledges, and their faithful implementation. Informed by the facts, years of research experience and lessons learned on the indispensable role of women in all aspects of society, whether political, security, economic or social, we must invest all possible efforts in implementation, knowing that it is vital for the genuine advancement of our nations and for the peace, stability and prosperity we all seek.”
2019-11-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption2 (2019) · source
“It is time to implement United Nations resolutions and fulfil legal obligations, including the inviolable obligation to respect and ensure respect for the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War in all circumstances. As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this August, let that be our solemn commitment and objective. We urge the international community to shore up the political will and courage to act immediately and without selectivity to protect human lives and to peacefully and justly resolve the conflicts plaguing our world, including in Palestine.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“And yet, our continuous pleas for protection continue to go answered, deepening the decades-long protection crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The consequences have been tragic and severe for our people, for the prospects for a peaceful solution and for the viability of multilateralism and the international system. When we meet in the Chamber and reaffirm the rules of protection and the laws of war and when we speak of noble principles and commitments, yet do nothing to uphold them, we must realize that someone, somewhere - actually thousands, in so many places around the world - suffers gravely because of that negligence.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“In the past year the Israeli occupying forces have killed more than 300 civilians and injured more than 30,000 people, many permanently disabled, with more than 140 amputees in one year. Humanitarian assistance intended to address protection needs continues to be impeded and obstructed through access and movement restrictions imposed by the occupation, most severely through its inhumane, illegal and suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip. Even the protective presence of unarmed civilian observers is denied, as we witnessed with Israel's termination, earlier this year, of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, Our reality under this illegal and inhumane occupation is one in which no one and nowhere are safe and the security and well-being of our civilians are under constant threat.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“For decades now the Palestinian people have suffered grave breaches of humanitarian law and massive human rights violations as Israel, the occupying Power, has continued to act with absolute impunity, in contempt of the law and the Council's authority. Our civilians, including the most vulnerable - children, women, refugees, displaced and disabled persons, as well as humanitarian and medical personnel - continue to be directly, deliberately, systematically and violently targeted by the occupying forces, as do civilian structures, including homes, hospitals and schools. Palestinian civilians continue to be killed, injured or forcibly displaced on a daily basis.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Protecting innocent people requires establishing enforcement measures that hold perpetrators accountable within the full extent of the law, including international criminal law. Without consequences or costs, modern history has shown us that these violations and war crimes will never cease. Palestine is one of the most glaring cases facing the international community. Time and again it has been said that the Palestine question is a litmus test for the international community, the credibility of the Security Council and the rules-based order. That is more true today than ever, and the stakes are high.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Vulnerable men, women and children around the world continue, and regrettably will continue, to endure such injustice, indignities and insecurity for as long as the international community continues to hesitate to match its principled words and commitments with serious action to stop those violations. The role of the Security Council is central in that regard. While humanitarian action continues to be pursued worldwide to treat the suffering caused by armed conflicts, it cannot stop the bloodletting. We have seen that over and over again in crises across the years, in which the norms and rules for protecting civilians are not only disregarded but are even more blatantly and gravely breached through prolonged conflict and an absence of accountability.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Failure to uphold international law, including the very clear provisions of humanitarian law crafted to protect civilians in times of war, and a failure to implement Security Council resolutions relevant to the protection of civilians, including children, has enabled a fierce culture of impunity to grow and spread as a source of shocking, serious breaches and pervasive Violations of human rights that have caused immense suffering, displacement, loss of life and injury, and trauma for enormous numbers of innocent civilians. It is unconscionable that 80 per cent of casualties in conflicts today are civilians.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“I would like to thank the Indonesian presidency for convening this important debate. We also thank the International Committee of the Red Cross for its briefing and indispensable humanitarian work and the Center for Civilians in Armed Conflict for its briefing and important advocacy work. At this critical moment, we must reflect not only on our collective duty and responsibility to ensure the protection of civilians in armed conflict, but also consider real and practical solutions for addressing the serious challenges we face in fulfilling that sacred obligation.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“We appeal to the international community, particularly the Security Council, to rise to its responsibilities and act now to salvage the prospects for peace and spare future generations of Palestinian and Israeli children the conflict, strife and suffering their ancestors have so tragically borne.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“Those who believe that ignore history, international law and the resolve of a people to attain justice and human equality and dignity. The vision that will offer Palestinians new opportunities to realize their full potential is one in which independence is the centrepiece. Despite all the setbacks and challenges, the Palestinian people have long demonstrated their resilience, ability and ingenuity. What they need and are entitled to is self- determination and control over their land, borders and resources - not endless international aid. They will not accept half-solutions or faits accomplis as their fate, and they will not surrender to despair. They will persist on their journey to fulfil their legitimate national aspirations and inalienable rights, including to be a free people and live in security and peace in their homeland.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“As stressed recently by the Palestinian Government, a solution to the conflict can be achieved only through a political solution that guarantees an end to the occupation and the realization of the national rights of the Palestinian people, embodied in their independent, sovereign and viable State within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and realization of the Palestine refugees' right to return, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions and international law. The Palestinian leadership cannot accept merely improving the lives of the Palestinian people while this illegal occupation continues apace. Nor have the Palestinian people endured decades of suffering and waited nearly a century for freedom to resign themselves to limited autonomy.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“Only in the context of a just solution is compromise possible, logical and defensible. Occupation, annexation and human rights violations will never be acceptable and will never become the new normal, no matter the spin, rhetoric or pretext. Likewise, we cannot accept dangerous attempts to convert this conflict into a religious battle. In truth, no one can accuse us ofnot wanting peace or not seeking the best interests of our people. There is only one legitimate basis for peace - international legality - and that cannot be characterized as a condition. It is a minimal ask, not only for Palestine but the wider international community.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“But Israel has rejected it over and over, never missing an opportunity to obstruct and undermine it. The one-State apartheid reality we face today is its doing. Claims otherwise are false. We are committed to a peaceful solution and to political, legal, popular and non-violent means for achieving it. Our pledge to respect international law and United Nations resolutions is unwavering. For the sake of peace and coexistence, we have for decades engaged with courage and in good faith in negotiations and cooperated with every single credible peace effort, believing firmly in multilateralism and dialogue as essential for realizing peace. But assumptions that further, unfair compromise can be forced upon us by financial or political pressures are faulty at best and cynical and destructive at worst.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“For a genuine lasting peace, such core issues must be justly resolved and cannot simply be relegated as non-issues. That is the path for ensuring justice and creating the peaceful and secure Middle East we have long sought, where all States can live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, including an independent, sovereign State of Palestine. The saying that peace requires painful compromises is borne out starkly by the Palestinian experience. The Palestinian people and leadership made the most monumental and painful compromise over 30 years ago in accepting the two-State solution on the 1967 borders and declaring the independence of their State on only 22 per cent of their historic homeland. Contrary to the myths and rhetoric, that is actually the most generous offer for peace ever made.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“After 52 years ofcalling and appealing, cajoling and appeasing, it should be self-evident to the international community that only accountability can break this toxic cycle to finally end this illegal occupation, assert the rights ofthe Palestinian people and establish lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace. No one can deny that we are in need of new efforts and new energy to overcome the suffocating political deadlock, least ofall us. But new cannot mean trampling the law or mocking and discarding the long-standing international consensus. As we have heard repeatedly in the Chamber, a solution can be founded only on respect for the law and human rights, the implementation of United Nations resolutions and good-faith negotiations to resolve all final-status issues, including Jerusalem, refugees and borders.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“Israel's actions stand in sharp contrast to that global consensus and, regrettably, its intransigence and violence have only been further emboldened by recent decisions by the United States disregarding, contradicting or completely undermining the pillars of that consensus and foundations of a peaceful solution. Ignoring the Council, Israel has persisted with its crimes and entrenched its belligerent military occupation and settler colonization of our land, especially in and around Jerusalem. Israel's appetite for expansion and annexation has only grown in tandem with its belief that it can get away with it.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“That conviction is shared by the overwhelming majority of the international community, which continues to reaffirm, at every juncture, the pillars and parameters of a just solution to the Palestine question. The global consensus remains strong on the two-State solution, with the pre-l967 borders, as the foundation of a peaceful solution on the basis of international law, the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principles, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map. The Council has reaffirmed that unequivocally, most recently in resolution 2334 (2016), and it remains the core of the international community's position.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“This protracted injustice has kept 5.4 million Palestine refugees away from their ancestral homes and lands, forced to live in limbo, suffering one misery and one crisis after another - their vulnerability and despair interminably deepening. It is a primary factor in the degradation of international law and has bred a dangerous culture of impunity. And the protraction and gravity of this injustice have kept this issue on the United Nations agenda for decades and have brought us to the Chamber time and time again to plead for the Council to uphold its duties and implement its resolutions, certain that this constitutes the key to the establishment of peace and security.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“We urge continued support for the Agency and solidarity with the refugees. The Palestinian people have just solemnly marked 71 years since the 1948 Nakba, lamenting not only the tragedy of the violent uprooting, dispossession and ethnic cleansing of our people from their homeland seven decades ago but also lamenting the Nakba that continues to be suffered as their rights continue to be grossly and systematically violated. In the absence ofjustice, Palestinians continue to be denied their rights to return and to self-determination, continue to be dispossessed of their homes and forced off their lands, and continue to be marginalized and subject to all forms of humiliation and deprivation by an illegal Israeli occupation that knows no bounds and stands in absolute contempt of the international community, including the Security Council.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“We are grateful to all the United Nations agencies that extend support to the Palestinian people, in recognition that UNRWA remains at the fore of upholding that responsibility pending ajust solution to the plight of the refugees, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III). We completely reject attacks against UNRWA and its programmes, which are recognized globally as providing exemplary humanitarian and development assistance. Attempts to characterize the Agency as part of the problem, when it has done extraordinary work to alleviate the plight of millions and to contribute to regional stability, are cynical, unfair and rejected - not only by us but also by the vast majority of States that continue to strongly support UNRWA's mandate, as we have heard today.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“We stress once again the urgency of providing protection to the Palestinian people and lifting the Israeli blockade ofthe Gaza Strip, which continues to subject an already traumatized population to dire humanitarian conditions and increasing needs. We also renew our gratitude to the Commissioner- General and the entire staff of UNRWA for their fortitude in implementing the Agency's mandate, in spite of the very challenging circumstances on the ground and recurrent financial crises. With the generous support of the international community, the Agency continues to provide vital, life-saving assistance to the Palestine refugees in all fields of operation - ensuring education, sustenance, stability and hope where there would otherwise be none.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“I thank the Indonesian presidency for convening this important meeting of the Security Council. I especially thank you, Minister Marsudi, for presiding. I also thank Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov and Mr. Pierre Krahenbiihl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for their comprehensive briefings and sober assessments of the current situation in all its dimensions. We reiterate our thanks to the Special Coordinator for his efforts, in cooperation with Egypt, to de-escalate the recent cycle of violence, which brought about more loss of civilian life, destruction and displacement.”
2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source
“Only through such a collective drive for peace can we end the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian- Israeli conflict, fulfil the decades-long promise of freedom, independence and justice for the Palestinian people and truly contribute to peace and security in the Middle East and North Africa and to the establishment ofa more just, stable and peaceful world.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“We urge the Security Council, based on its Council mandate, to call on the Quartet members - the Russian Federation, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations as a whole - to uphold their obligations and exert every possible effort to that end, in cooperation with, and supported by, all regional partners concerned, the League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and all peace-loving nations, with the vital good offices of the Secretary-General.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Any viable peace agreement must ensure the realization of the Palestinian people's inalienable rights and the independence of a sovereign, contiguous State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side in peace with the State of Israel within secure and internationally recognized borders and based on the pre-1967 lines, as well as a just solution for the Palestine refugees, as per resolution 194 (III) and the Arab Peace Initiative. We reiterate our call for a multilateral, political process to achieve those objectives, once again reaffirming in this Chamber our readiness to engage, including in an international peace conference.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“For 30 years, since agreeing to the two-State framework, we have made historic and painful compromises and engaged in good faith in every peace initiative and endless negotiations, adhering to a peaceful, political and non-violent path. Despite many setbacks, we remain firmly convinced that the Charter of the United Nations, the law and United Nations resolutions will be the guarantors of a just solution that resolves all final-status issues.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“We reject the politicization of humanitarian work, as has been egregiously done to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. We call for the empowerment of women and youth in any peace initiative, and we reject attempts to falsely equate the just cause of Palestine with terrorism. We have publicly aligned ourselves with the global front against terrorism. We have never sought to force a solution, as the occupying Power and its supporters do; we have simply sought the law's application to peacefully end the conflict and achieve our rights. That is all we have asked for at every juncture: what we are entitled to as a people, as per the law and not beyond what is legislated in United Nations resolutions.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source