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Abdelhady-Nasser

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2008-07-22
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  1. “East Jerusalem is being isolated from the rest of the Palestinian territory, which is being dissected into northern, central and southern parts. In other words, economic and social devastation is being imposed on the Palestinian people. The overall result is the severe fragmentation of the occupied Palestinian Territory and the undermining of its contiguity, integrity and unity.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  2. “Taken together, the 150 Israeli settlements, the more than 100 settlement outposts, the extensive labyrinth of Israeli-only bypass roads connecting the settlements to each other and to Israel itself, and the wall, which is projected to be more than twice the length of the 1967 Green Line, occupy huge swaths of Palestinian land, including areas with water and other natural resources, totalling approximately 50 per cent of the occupied West Bank. This vast colonial network, along with the more than 600 Israeli checkpoints erected to completely restrict Palestinian movement, has created a situation on the ground whereby Palestinian communities have been separated, with many transformed into walled cantons and some destroyed in their entirety, causing the displacement of thousands of Palestinian civilians.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  3. “The Court affirmed the illegality of the wall, which is being constructed deep in the Palestinian territory in deviation from the 1967 Green Line, as well as the illegality of its associated regime, and called upon Israel to cease construction of the wall, to dismantle it and to make reparations for all damage caused by it. The wall is part and parcel of Israel's colonization attempts, and that was recognized by the 08-4326] Court, which concluded, inter alia, that the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territory have been established in breach of international law and that "the route chosen for the wall gives expression in loco to the illegal measures taken by Israel with regard to Jerusalem and the settlements, as deplored by the Security Council" (A/ES-10/273, 13 July 2004, para. 122).”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  4. “This massive colonization campaign has been carried out through the vast confiscation of Palestinian land, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers and construction of the wall, which is directly linked to the settlements and intended to protect them and facilitate their expansion and annexation, as well as by numerous other illegal measures. In this regard, we recall that this month marked the four-year anniversary of the landmark Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of the construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian Territory.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  5. “Israel remains defiant against the will and calls of the international community and continues its illegal settlement activities, imposing more facts on the ground to advance its land grab, with settlement activities especially intense in occupied East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, in the recent period. It is a blatant situation of acquisition of territory by force, driven by Israel's expansionist agenda, which has prolonged the occupation and stood in the way of all peacemaking efforts.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  6. “Indeed, the settlements issue is not only one of the final status issues in the peace process, but is also intricately related to and at the crux of nearly all other final status issues, including Jerusalem, borders, water and security, and continues to complicate efforts to justly resolve all of these issues. Israeli settlement activities have been relentless, in spite of the United Nations resolutions demanding cessation of all settlement activities and the dismantlement of the settlements, in spite of the calls by the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention for Israel to respect the Convention and abide by its legal obligations, and in spite of the fact that the cornerstone of the Road Map is Israel's obligation to freeze all settlement activity and to dismantle settlement outposts.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  7. “In the occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel's settlement campaign has aimed at creating unilateral facts on the ground and illegally altering the demographic composition, status and character of the territory, in order to facilitate the de facto annexation of large areas of land, especially in and around occupied East Jerusalem. As such, this colonization represents the primary danger to the realization by the Palestinian people of their inalienable and national rights and the achievement of the two-State solution with an independent Palestinian State living side by side with Israel in peace and security on the basis of the 1967 borders.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  8. “Despite many resolutions, agreements and initiatives undertaken over the years to sustain and salvage the peace process, Israel's deliberate actions continue to harm the peace process, preventing that process from overcoming the serious obstacles on the path to achievement of its goals. The main obstruction has been Israel's illegal settlement campaign in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, as well as in the occupied Syrian Golan, by which Israel has, for over 41 years, been aggressively colonizing the land it forcibly occupied in 1967 in grave breach of international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, which absolutely prohibits the transfer by the occupying Power of its civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  9. “The Middle East peace process, which was begun 17 years ago in Madrid on the basis of United Nations resolutions and the principle of land for peace, was launched officially between the Palestinian and Israeli sides 15 years ago in Washington with the signing of the Oslo accords, and renewed once again with much hope last November in Annapolis after a bitter seven year freeze - this process, even in the most benign assessment, is in a state of disrepair. That is so because the entire premise of the peace process is being incessantly undermined by the illegal actions of Israel, the occupying Power, in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, actions that are totally contrary to the principle of land for peace and the objective of achieving a just, lasting and peaceful settlement based on a two-State solution.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source

  10. “Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you and your country, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, on your presidency of the Security Council this month, affirming our confidence in your ability to wisely guide the Council's important work. I also express our thanks to the United States of America for its able stewardship of the Council in June. We also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Pascoe, for his briefing today.”

    2008-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5940 (2008) · source