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El-Baour

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2023-10-24

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1. “Today the priority is to provide a secure environment to all the residents of the region to achieve a just peace. The Israeli authorities should be held accountable for their brutal occupation and for disregarding international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions concerning the use of force during war. They should be held responsible for cutting off the supplies of fuel, water, electricity and food and for preventing them from reaching the occupied and besieged regions. If the international community is unable to put an end to those violations, then it should speak up and tell the world about its inability to do so. The Palestinian resistance should not be taken as a pretext for attempting to wipe Gaza off the map.”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

2. “We also demand that the international community take a clear position on Palestinians’ right to establish an independent State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, rather than being forced to create a new geographic and demographic reality that wipes out the Palestinian question and makes us talk about 2023 borders and the right of Gazan refugees to return to their homes. In conclusion, the Government and people of my country reject the notion that Palestinians have to bargain for their right to access food, water, electricity and fuel in a normal manner. It is incredible that the entry of 20 or 30 trucks transporting medicines and food in batches to more than 2 million human beings should be regarded as an achievement of international diplomacy or a humanitarian triumph.”

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3. “My country calls for this aggression to stop immediately and for an end to the excessive force by which the Israeli occupation forces aim to perpetrate genocide and complete destruction on a pretext of protecting their citizens, as we have all seen and heard on television, along with declarations by leaders of the occupying army that they will annihilate the people of Gaza, occupy the city and turn it into an Israeli settlement. Let the historical record reflect my country’s position, in which we demand that the international community act immediately and urgently to stop this aggression and prevent it from achieving its goal of annihilating Gaza City and the Palestinian territories.”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

4. “International law and international humanitarian law, along with the relevant laws concerning the protection of civilians, are instruments that are legally and morally binding on us all. We must therefore base our judgment of the actions of the Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian resistance on them. Maintaining double standards in defining which civilians should receive international protection and military support to ensure their safety is a shameful stance that shows contempt for civilian lives.”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

5. “We cannot accept the spurious argument that the current crisis began on 7 October, or that the violations by the Israeli forces against the Palestinians that preceded it, along with desecrations of Islamic and Christian sacred sites in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, were perpetrated by parties unknown. For that reason, we will not accept the demand that we condemn the Palestinian people’s resistance or stand idly by and support the aggression against civilians. At this difficult time, some of the States that support the brutal aggression want us to accept Palestinians’ forced displacement from their homes to neighbouring Arab States, which is a war crime seeking to gain the world’s support.”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

6. “What message are they sending the world today? The world’s peoples are fully aware of what is happening on the ground in occupied Palestine. We have had enough of double standards and counterfeit facts. The ongoing painful developments are nothing but a natural outcome of the apartheid policies that the brutal Israeli occupation forces have practiced against the Palestinian people for seven decades. Those policies have brought us to this point and have deprived the Palestinian people of their legitimate rights enshrined in international and humanitarian resolutions and conventions.”

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7. “They cannot erase the identities of the perpetrators, proponents and funders of those atrocities, along with crimes of colonialism, racist practices, the deliberate killing of women and children, contempt for humankind and systematic terrorism. All of them are crimes against humanity and peaceful coexistence. No media power in this world can falsify what is happening in Gaza City or impose fake narratives and information about the events, as we have seen in the massacre resulting from the bombing of the Al Ahli Hospital, in which more than 500 civilian martyrs were killed. That blatant aggression has exposed the hollowness of slogans about human rights. Where are the sermons and the commitment to human rights and international law, especially those that we hear from the self-proclaimed civilized countries?”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

8. “Mr. El-Baour (Libya) (spoke in Arabic): The Government and the people of Libya condemn in the strongest terms the brutal aggression being perpetrated by Israel’s savage occupation forces against the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 5,000 civilians and injured thousands more. That is in addition to the hundreds trapped under rubble whom civil-defence teams have not yet been able to reach, owing to the intensity of the horrific shelling being carried out by the Israeli occupation forces with the aim of exterminating the people of Gaza. The annals of human history are replete with details of the woes of victims of many ethnicities and religions and the documented atrocities of wars.”

   2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source