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Jilani

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2002-02-26
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2023-11-10
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  1. “Please listen to the cries of children soaked in blood, asking why this is happening, what they have done and why the world is so indifferent to their lives.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  2. “We call on the Council and the international community at large to do the following: ensure an effective and immediate ceasefire is enforced; ensure fuel gets into Gaza immediately in order to prevent additional unnecessary deaths and suffering; increase humanitarian aid and ensure that unconditional humanitarian aid gets to the north of Gaza, where tens of thousands of people remain, with no safe place to go; ensure respect for international humanitarian law and the protection of medical missions and civilians in all parts of Gaza; ensure hospitals continue to function with the required support of fuel, medicine, medical supplies; and allow medical teams to enter Gaza to relieve the teams who have been working tirelessly, 24/7, for the past 35 days.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  3. “PRCS is taking the main responsibility of receiving humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing and of distributing it to humanitarian organizations and to hospitals and shelters. What has come in so far represents less than what used to get into Gaza in two days. At the same time, not one drop of fuel has entered Gaza, which is essential for every aspect of life — hospital operations, pumping water, bakeries, ambulances and the trucks transporting humanitarian aid. If the prohibition on fuel continues, we will not be able to continue to receive and distribute the aid. Furthermore, if no aid gets to the north of the Gaza Strip, we will soon see infants dying because their mothers cannot feed them. Many people will starve and die of diseases.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  4. “A child was treated yesterday for an eye infection, and the doctor found worms in his eyes. The medical teams have left their families to help save the lives of the wounded and the sick, but many of them have received news of losing so many loved ones. Dr. Nabeel, a board member and now a volunteer at Al-Quds Hospital, lost 36 members of his family. The Chair of our Board has lost 20 members of his family. One of the founders of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) lost 20 members in one day and another 13 the next day. The description of the situation at Al-Quds Hospital does not, and cannot, describe the absolute horrors, trauma and psychological scars of people sleeping every night under the terrorizing bombardment and not knowing whether they will be alive the following morning or not.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  5. “Right now, there is a very serious risk that we will lose all the patients in the intensive care units and those children in incubators. I was prepared to inform the Council about the critical shortages of fuel, food and water. But, honestly, now our utmost concern is the direct threat to the lives of all the wounded and sick, together with tens of thousands of civilians, including thousands of children. They are looking to the Council, imploring it to act to stop another possible massacre unfolding. In addition to the imminent threat of being shot and killed, the 14,000 displaced civilians at the hospital are growing restless and desperate because of lack of water, food and electricity. We are witnessing the spread of diseases and increasing infestation of wounds with worms, including in children.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  6. “During the most recent call with my colleagues at Al-Quds Hospital, two hours ago, they told me that 20 people have been injured by direct fire at the hospital and one person has been killed. They are asking what they can do and where they should go. Thousands of innocent lives are under imminent threat of being killed. I am calling upon Council members, on behalf of the staff and volunteers of the emergency medical teams, the doctors and nurses who are besieged in Gaza hospitals, to do all they can to spare further deaths and suffering. There are 14,000 displaced civilians at Al-Quds Hospital, in addition to 400 sick and wounded, together with our medical and management teams. The main generator was shut off two days ago because of the lack of fuel.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  7. “Mr. Jilani: I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to address this very important meeting of the Security Council. The health sector in Gaza is under attack. Hospitals are being deliberately targeted in a desperate attempt to force the civilian population out of Gaza. The past 24 hours saw the targeting of at least four hospitals in Gaza: Al Shifa Hospital, with tens of thousands of people sheltering there; Al-Awda Hospital, where our ambulances were bombarded and the emergency paramedics miraculously escaped certain death yesterday; the Indonesian Hospital; and our Al-Quds Hospital. I had to rewrite this statement a few times in the last few hours, as the situation around the hospitals is changing by the minute. Displaced people at the hospitals are getting shot at as we speak.”

    2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source

  8. “This is the vision that was declared by President Bush and detailed by Secretary of State Powell and was welcomed by the Palestinian side. What remains is for it to be accepted by the Israeli side. Herein lies the question of the failure or success of the international community in shouldering its responsibilities through this Council.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  9. “Despite the pessimism about finding a solution to the Middle East conflict and the hardened position on both Israeli and Palestinian sides, there is a growing conviction on both sides that the requisites for solving this conflict do not differ much whether we reach a solution now, after a year, or after ten years. It is the same solution upon which the whole peace process in the Middle East has been based, as defined in Madrid in 1991 and in the Oslo agreements. This solution is based on ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories occupied since 1967 and on the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, to coexist in peace and security with the State of Israel within secure and internationally recognized borders. This is the vision that has received international consensus.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  10. “This is all being done by the Israeli side with the purpose of aborting any attempt to implement the Mitchell recommendations and to complete the negotiation process, particularly to avoid the requirements of a freeze of settlement activities. At the same time, Mr. Sharon's attempts to bury the Mitchell recommendations do not mean that the international community should declare them defunct before an agreed and implementable alternative can be found. Otherwise, the international community once again risks appearing helpless to compel Israel to implement what the international community has accepted and is committed to. The alternative is that Israel alone decides what can and cannot be accepted and when and how what it has accepted is to be implemented, if at all. This is truly a depressing situation.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  11. “The failure to appropriately address these issues collectively will result in a situation worse than the one now prevailing. It must be reiterated here that Mr. Sharon has never concealed his opposition to a final settlement, and he has imposed the condition of seven days of calm, giving those opposed to the peace process ample opportunity to divert any calming of the situation and a return to negotiations. This condition is being imposed on the Palestinian side, while the occupation forces simultaneously continue to commit extrajudicial killings and assault the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority and its security installations.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  12. “In his statement, the Secretary-General also expressed what we believe to be an international consensus: that there is no military or security solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and there is no alternative to a political solution through the negotiation process. There is also international consensus that the core of the solution depends on addressing the three key problems mentioned by the Secretary-General: the Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories, lack of security, and economic depravation. These problems are interlinked and must be addressed in a coordinated manner. The Secretary- General has warned of the danger of attempting to deal with the security issue in isolation from the political issues, specifically the question of land and the socio- economic issues.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  13. “We hope to be guided by it and to build upon it, in order to come out of this meeting with action that is unanimously approved by the members of the Council and that can actively contribute to calming the situation and moving the parties back to the negotiating table. In his statement, the Secretary- General expressed the deep concern of the international community and its conviction that the situation has reached the edge of the abyss and threatens to plunge the entire region into war. We share his concern and support his analysis of the problem and the mechanism for resolving it.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  14. “Sharon decided to set up what he refers to as buffer zones around S/PV.4478 Palestinian cities and villages in order to transform them into Bantustans and collective detention jails. He has also decided to build a wall to separate East and West Jerusalem with the aim of entirely isolating Arab Jerusalem and imposing a complete siege from the north, south, east and west. All of these illegal policies and practices are extremely dangerous and aim at breaking the will of the Palestinian people, humiliating them and destroying their national dignity. Mr. Sharon and his Government bear full responsibility for these actions and their dangerous consequences and repercussions. We have listened with great interest to the statement made by the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, which we consider to be an important prelude to our discussion.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  15. “At the same time, the Israeli Government has ordered the tightening of the military siege and restrictions on the freedom of movement of all Palestinian persons and goods, virtually dividing the occupied Palestinian territory into numerous detention centres, while continuing the military siege of President Arafat and the whole Palestinian population of more than 3 million. Last week, President Arafat repeated the call he made in December for an immediate and total cessation of all acts of violence. That same day, in an address to the Israeli people, Mr. Sharon declared his intention to continue and escalate the bloody attacks against the Palestinian people and its National Authority by using all Israeli air, land and naval weaponry and continuing the policy of extrajudicial killings. In addition to all of this, Mr.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  16. “These crimes have included the killing of more than 900 Palestinians, including many children, and the injury of tens of thousands, many of whom have been permanently disabled as a result of the serious injuries sustained. The Israeli occupying forces have also committed crimes of extrajudicial killings; the destruction of homes, buildings, agricultural fields, roads and other infrastructure; the confiscation of more land for settlement activities and the destruction of numerous economic facilities.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  17. “At the same time, the Israeli occupying forces have repeatedly raided densely populated Palestinian cities and refugee camps. These raids and attacks have resulted in the killing and injury of many Palestinian civilians, many of whom were uprooted from their homes more than 50 years ago and have been living under Israeli occupation for almost 35 years. Since 28 September 2000, the Palestinian people have suffered flagrant violations of their human rights as defined by international humanitarian law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For over 16 months, they have been subjected to continuous and systematic war crimes and State terrorism being committed by the Israeli occupying forces.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  18. “The Security Council should uphold its responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security and undertake the necessary action to remedy this grave situation. Upon instruction from Prime Minister Sharon, the Israeli occupying forces intensified the bloody military campaign against the Palestinian people and Palestinian institutions. In just the past few days the Israeli occupying forces have killed more than 50 Palestinians, including women and children, and have wrought vast destruction on both public and private Palestinian property. This has included attacks on the official compounds of President Yasser Arafat in Gaza City and Ramallah and the destruction of several police and security installations, as well as of Palestinian radio and television facilities.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  19. “The immediate response of the Council is an acknowledgement of the extremely dangerous situation in the region and the continuous deterioration of Palestinian-Israeli relations, as well as the ongoing escalation of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority and its leadership. This grave situation threatens to push the region into total confrontation and war. As the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory continues to decline dramatically and as the toll of death and destruction continues to rise as a result of the ongoing assaults by the Israeli occupying forces against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority, it is incumbent upon the international community to address this dangerous crisis.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source

  20. “Mr. Jilani (Palestine) (spoke in Arabic): We wish to convey to you and the members of the Council our gratitude and appreciation for your immediate response to our request to convene an urgent meeting of the Security Council to consider the grave situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem. I would also like to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, for his statement before the Council and for his tireless efforts and unwavering commitment to bringing the parties back to the negotiating table and to putting an end to the tragic deterioration of the situation.”

    2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source