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  1. “Throughout the day, I have been receiving persistent reports from our soldiers in the field about indiscriminate and unprovoked gunfire, including the use of heavy machine guns and high explosives emanating from Palestinian police positions. The Palestinian police have turned these weapons against the same Israeli soldiers with whom they carry out joint security tasks on a daily basis. It is regrettable that at such a sensitive time in the Middle East peace process, the Palestinians have once again decided to resort to violence for political gain. Experience has repeatedly shown that the Palestinian Authority's willingness to incite popular violence as a means to elicit concessions in the negotiations serves only to divert the peace process from its course and to hinder our ability to arrive at a permanent settlement.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  2. “Furthermore, Palestinian Authority security forces and paramilitary groups, such as Fatah's Tanzim, have taken a leading role in the events, including the use of live ammunition against Israelis. Even more disturbing for Israel is the wholesale violation of signed agreements regarding the use of weapons by Palestinian policemen. Yesterday alone, a soldier was ambushed and killed by a Palestinian policeman near the town of Beit Sahour. One Israeli civilian was shot and killed at close range when dropping his car off at a Palestinian-owned garage in the village of Maskheh. Palestinian attackers opened fire on an Israeli school bus near Shiloh. Israeli policemen were wounded in gunfire from armed Palestinian security forces in Jericho, Nablus, Ramallah, Netzarim and other locations.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  3. “Let me stress that in all the cases mentioned above, Israeli security personnel returned fire only when absolutely necessary and only when faced with an imminent threat to life and limb. Israeli forces exercised all possible restraint in their efforts to restore calm and security, and took action only as a last resort, in order to protect the lives of civilians, police officers and Israeli soldiers, as any Government would be obligated to do. I must also stress that the responsibility for this distressing escalation lies squarely with the Palestinian Authority, not only because of its failure to take action to halt these events, but also because of its incitement of the population through inflammatory rhetoric and calls to violence.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  4. “At this point, the Israeli police, who had been deployed outside the perimeter of the Mount, were compelled to enter the area in order to push back the surging mob. The stone-throwing mob continued in its violence for a period of more than four hours. Regrettably, the wave of widespread Palestinian violence did not stop there, despite Israeli attempts to end the clashes through dialogue. Let there be no doubt: we are not faced with peaceful demonstrators but, rather, with a coordinated escalation of violent confrontation throughout the West Bank and Gaza. In a fatal phenomenon which is now a commonplace occurrence, there have been numerous instances of live fire emanating from within rioting crowds.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  5. “This was followed by a number of increasingly violent incidents, including the killing of an Israeli soldier by a roadside bomb on 27 September and the murder of an Israeli police officer by a Palestinian policeman who served with him in a joint patrol of the West Bank on 29 September. The events of this past Friday on the Temple Mount escalated the violence even further. Muslim worshippers, intent on provoking a violent confrontation with both Israeli police and civilians on the eve of the Jewish New Year, hurled a hail of stones at Jewish worshippers gathered at the Western Wall below. Israeli police attempted to turn back the protesters through non-violent means, but the mob persisted, trying to force its way out of the Temple Mount area and through the Mughrabim gate to the Western Wall plaza.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  6. “We mourn, together with the Palestinians, the shattering death of the young Mohammed Jamal Al-Durra, as we mourn our own losses. It is precisely this human suffering that the Middle East peace process was meant to alleviate. The events of the last few days represent the latest and most severe developments in a wave of violence that has been building in recent weeks. Although some are inclined to assign exclusive responsibility to Israel for these acts of provocation, the reality is far less simplistic. The present Palestinian escalation dates back to well before the Temple Mount disturbances, when, on 13 September, stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at Israeli positions in the vicinity of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  7. “I would like, first, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I would also like to pay tribute to your predecessor, Ambassador Ouane of Mali, for his most capable leadership. Nothing would have made me happier than to be able to stand before the Council today and announce a breakthrough in the peace process. Regrettably, circumstances compel me, instead, to deliver to the Council an update on the recent events that have taken place in Jerusalem and in the West Bank and Gaza. At the outset, I wish to express my most profound sadness at the tragic loss of human life that has occurred in recent days. In particular, I would like to express here, before the Security Council, a feeling widely shared in Israel.”

    2000-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204 (2000) · source

  8. “Let us hope that the focus on the innocent, beginning in this forum, will set the stage for a greater recognition of the inherent rights of all human beings across borders and continents. Then civil society will be truly safe and free.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source

  9. “We must demand that States do their utmost to prevent demonization before - and especially after - it reaches the point of violence. The outlawing of incitement to violence is a step in the right direction. But more must be done to promote a climate of peace and respect for human rights. This begins with respect for the human rights of all peoples, regardless of ethnic group, religion or nationality. There is another point that is worth emphasizing: civilians must never be the direct target of war; however, they must certainly be the target of peacemaking. All efforts at diplomatic reconciliation, between States and parties, must be supplemented by efforts to promote normalization of relations between peoples and societies. In this manner we can lay the groundwork for a climate in which civilian life and human dignity will be respected.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source

  10. “Moreover, our current age has marked the growth of a new tactic, which is as cynical as it is brutal: the use of civilians as human shields. This practice must itself be included as part of the same theme, for it is in essence the same crime: the deliberate attempt to cause the death and suffering of civilians in armed conflict. Nevertheless, the root causes continue to elude us. The above-mentioned report refers in paragraph 48 to "the obligation to prevent the open incitement to violence against particular groups". We must recall that the worst case of targeting civilians, in the century just past, began with the vilification of an entire people. This continues to be the case today. Groups that attack civilians are often also guilty of conducting media campaigns against entire peoples or ethnic groups. This is no coincidence.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source

  11. “Moreover, by criminalizing the tactic itself, we prevent actors from hiding behind their political or military purposes. The international community has finally established that no end justifies a deliberate assault on the innocent. This is a universal principle, and the next step might be for Member States and entities to explicitly outlaw the practice. Still, we have only scratched the surface. The question still plagues us: how did the century that saw the birth of our international human rights instruments also witness the most vicious targeting of civilians in human history? Less than 50 years after the conventions on genocide, human rights and humanitarian law, we saw the systematic destruction of entire civilian households, both in Europe and in the African continent.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source

  12. “We have seen plans to increase civilian police, which would be a welcome development across the globe. Still, all of these practical steps begin with a legal one: identifying the deliberate targeting of civilians as a distinct crime. As we recall, resolution 1265 (1999) strongly condemns the deliberate targeting of civilians. We should also recall that the Secretary-General's report in September specifically used the word "terror" to describe such actions and noted that: "The violence is frequently perpetrated by non-state actors and privately financed militia." (S/J 999/95 7, para. 8) These affirmations serve to identify and help criminalize the tactic of wilfully targeting civilians. They also reaffirm that any violations by States or militias are worthy of the attention of the Security Council.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source

  13. “I wish to emphasize our appreciation for your leadership in this discussion and to commend the several discussions that preceded it over this past year. In the months since the Secretary-General presented us with his report, we have seen special attention given to the protection of civilians in places like Sierra Leone, Angola and others. This gave birth both to short-term and long-term measures. More importantly, it added to a renewed focus on the plight of civilians targeted in armed conflict. As the report of the Secretary-General pointed out, physical protection must precede legal protection. It is the more immediate need. We have seen efforts to begin integrating ex-military forces into civil society. We have seen attempts to place United Nations peacekeepers in areas where civilians are vulnerable.”

    2000-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4130Resumption1 (2000) · source