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Mansour

lines on the record: 2,038
first: 2006-03-30
most recent: 2023-12-22
sittings or episodes: 126
sources: un-security-council

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“There is no way to stop the war crimes, the crimes against humanity and the genocide under way, other than an immediate ceasefire. I repeat, a ceasefire. There is no way to start addressing the occupation-made humanitarian catastrophe, other than an immediate ceasefire. I repeat, a ceasefire. There is no way to release those held captive other than through an immediate ceasefire. This resolution calls for protection of civilians, deplores attacks against civilians, rejects forced displacement, calls for immediate and safe humanitarian access and for humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian population. All that requires an immediate ceasefire, as requested and as called for by the Secretary-General in his famous letter to the Security Council (S/2023/962). Humanity must prevail. International law must prevail.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“The resolution is also clear about the unwavering commitment to the two-State solution, consistent with international law and United Nations resolutions, and in that context, it is also clear on the status of the Gaza Strip as an integral part of the territory occupied in 1967 and as part of the Palestinian State, the unity of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the role of the Palestinian Authority and the complete rejection of forced displacement in violation of international law. Let us act now to save lives and to provide life-saving assistance and life-sustaining hope. This resolution is a step in the right direction. It must be implemented and accompanied by massive pressure for an immediate ceasefire — I repeat, an immediate ceasefire.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“The Council also called for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access. The Secretary- General and all United Nations agencies, as well as humanitarian organizations, have all said that this requires an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which is now backed by 153 States around the world. It took the Council 75 days to finally utter the words “cessation of hostilities”, 40 days after the General Assembly first referred to that objective and tens of thousands of killed Palestinians later. We support the Russian amendment, and the United Arab Emirates, as the Arab representative, reflected that support in its vote. Of course, that paragraph was endorsed in the original blue text by the 83 co-sponsors.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“In the words of Israel’s closest allies, its indiscriminate bombing and its killing rage must stop. That means its crimes must stop. Gaza is like a patient whose wounds you are trying to treat while the killer keeps shooting at them — the killer must be stopped, or the patient will never be saved. Death is everywhere in Gaza in its different manifestations — destruction, deprivation and disease. People are starving, they have no water, no food and no medicine — or barely any. The resolution that the Council adopted today is intended to help to address this inhumane situation, to alleviate the untold suffering and pain being borne by millions of civilians. We welcome the decision to establish a United Nations mechanism to accelerate the provision of humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza and call for its rapid implementation.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“It later discovered that they were three Israelis who had been held captive in Gaza. It could have saved them, had it observed the laws of war, but it thought they were Palestinians and shot them in yet another display of total, abject disregard for Palestinian lives. That confirms the many reports of summary executions of Palestinians, murdered in cold blood by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Israel has also continued its ill treatment and mass arrest and humiliation of Palestinians in despicable scenes filmed by its own soldiers, boasting about their depravity. They are the soldiers of a rogue army, which is unhinged and empowered by the impunity it enjoys. Certain that it will not be held accountable, it is an army that commits atrocities every single day.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“Dunya said that, while she will never forget her loved ones, she must continue living and that she would become a doctor to help children as doctors helped her. But Dunya did not live to become a doctor or to memorialize her family. She was killed a few days later in the strike on the maternity ward of Al-Nasr Hospital. Israel wants to convince us that we need to choose between life and our country by making life in our country impossible. Our people want to live in their country. They want their children to grow up safely in their country. There is no simpler dream, there is no aspiration more sacred than that. Israel’s treatment of Palestinian civilians and its abhorrent crimes against them were even more starkly revealed after Israel killed three people raising a white flag and representing no danger.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“That is why it is destroying our cities and towns, our universities and cultural institutions. That is why it kills our children and terrorizes and traumatizes them, scarring and disfiguring their futures. We often quote the number of children killed — an unbearable tragedy — but we should not forget that 25,000 children have been orphaned and tens of thousands wounded or had limbs amputated. A 12-year-old Palestinian girl with the most beautiful of names, Dunya — which, in Arabic, means the whole world — lost both her parents, her sister and her brother, who were all killed in the Israeli shelling of her house. She also lost her leg, and I believe that she was interviewed by the CNN journalist the United Arab Emirates managed to let enter the Gaza Strip so she could make her important report.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“That is why it targets homes, hospitals, schools, bakeries, agricultural fields and water and sanitation networks, so that the sustenance of life becomes impossible — and it has become impossible. That is why it targets the landmarks of Gaza, which bear witness to its ancient history and to our roots in the land — our historic churches and mosques, our monuments and our architecture. Israel also targets the storytellers, those who capture our people’s lives, suffering and death, including the journalists conveying to the world the truth about the massacres, about this grave and unbearable injustice being endured by Palestinian people and their families. But Israel’s targets are not only the past and the present of our people, but indeed also the future. That is why it kills our doctors, engineers, poets, academics and artists.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“This inhumane and criminal Israeli siege and the use of humanitarian aid necessary for the survival of the population as a method of warfare have to end and must end now. On 4 November, the Deputy Head of the Israeli Civil Administration stated from inside Gaza: “Whoever returns here, if they return here after, will find scorched earth. No houses. No agriculture. No nothing. They have no future”. This is just one statement among far too many demonstrating in shocking terms that what we are dealing with is an attempt at the destruction of our people and their displacement forever from their land. This is Israel’s goal, its true objective: no future for Palestinians in Palestine. That is why it is bombing everyone and everything.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“Resolution 2720 (2023), submitted by the United Arab Emirates, is intended to allow them to conduct their sacred mission to assist civilians in need and save human lives as Israel, the occupying Power, continues to ignore the global demands for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and deprive the Palestinian people of the humanitarian aid they desperately need. There are thousands of trucks of humanitarian aid on the Egyptian side, and Egypt is fully willing and poised to see that aid delivered. On their visit, Council members saw those thousands of truckloads lined up from the Al-Arish airport to the Rafah crossing. There are more than 2 million Palestinians in desperate need of such aid on the Palestinian side.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“They are operating under conditions where no place and no one is safe, under widespread and indiscriminate bombing, where hospitals, shelters and ambulances are shelled, and with minimal to no access to humanitarian supplies necessary to sustain and save lives. We pay tribute to the Palestine Red Crescent, members of which many Council members met during their visit to the Rafah crossing; to Palestinian medical and civilian rescue teams; to the personnel of the United Nations and its agencies, notably the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; to the members of Palestinian and international humanitarian organizations on the ground; and to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Their work is heroic and deserves our utmost recognition and respect.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“The Group of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, with the support of the overwhelming number of United Nations States Members, have been mobilizing to achieve three objectives, which we have said from the beginning: an immediate end to the carnage and an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian assistance at scale and no forced displacement. We meet today as part of this continuous effort to advance the three goals. Allow me at the outset to pay tribute to all the humanitarian and health-care workers who, at their own peril, are risking their lives and struggling every single day to address and alleviate an occupation-made humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented scale.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“The Security Council first met (see S/PV.9439) to address this grave crisis when hundreds of Palestinians had been killed by Israel, the occupying Power, in its siege of, and aggression against, the Gaza Strip. The Council is now meeting after more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed — almost half of them children — 60,000 people have been wounded and 2 million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced. It is meeting as homes, shelters, schools and hospitals have been destroyed and as hunger and disease are spreading like wildfire. No one should forget that what we are talking about are the 2.3 million Palestinians who have been fighting for their lives and facing death every single day for 75 days. They have been fighting for their lives and very existence for more than 75 days.”
2023-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9520 (2023) · source
“We reject this result and will continue resorting to every legitimate avenue to stop these abhorrent atrocities, including by resuming the emergency session of the General Assembly. We demand a ceasefire to save lives. Every further day means lives lost and people killed at an unprecedented pace in modern history. It means barbarism prevailing and humanity abandoned. Humanity must prevail now — for the sake of the Palestinian people in Gaza and for the sake of humanity. The meeting rose at 4.30 p.m.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“Together with all States that have taken a clear and principled stance, with the Secretary-General, with civil society and with peoples around the world who are with us in solidarity, we will spare no effort to put an end to the slaughter of our people. We will make every effort to hold those responsible accountable. We will never relent in our efforts to uphold international law, nor will we ever relent in championing the rights of our people and defending our just cause. What is happening these days will have a decisive impact on the fate of our region, as well as on the understanding and perception of every country and relations among communities, peoples and nations around the world. This is a terrible day for the Security Council.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“And whoever supports it is enabling war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, regardless of their intentions or efforts. Only the outcome matters when so many lives are at stake. Finally, let me thank the 100 countries that, in less than a day’s time, rallied to co-sponsor draft resolution S/2023/970. The number of supporting countries has increased since my brother from the United Arab Emirates referred it to the Council. I also want to thank the members of the Security Council that, with courage and a sense of humanity and human decency, voted in favour of the draft resolution. I thank all 13 members that did so, including you, Mr. President.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“More shouts of people still alive will come from under the rubble, asking to be saved. The humanitarian catastrophe will reach new and terrifying depths. Who can justify this? Who can tolerate witnessing more of these horrors and allowing them to continue? In Gaza, 2.3 million Palestinians are paying with their lives the price for double standards, bias, racism, Israeli exceptionalism and supremacy. Whoever is against the destruction and displacement of the Palestinian people must stand against this war. And whoever supports it is enabling this destruction and displacement, regardless of their intentions or efforts. Only the outcome matters when so many lives are at stake. Whoever is against war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide must stand against this war.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“Those who are advocating for the prolongation of the assault on the one hand, while also pleading against the commission of atrocities on the other, should be convinced by now that the prolongation of this war obviously implies the continued commission of atrocities, the loss of more innocent lives and more destruction. They are inherently linked. That is the way Israel conducts its war — through atrocities. Hundreds of people will be killed by this time tomorrow, then hundreds more and then thousands. Children will be killed, orphaned, wounded or disabled for life, not by mistake but by design, because the killers have no regard whatsoever for Palestinian life, from the cradle to the grave and beyond. Even the killed are now stacked in mass graves or left for days and weeks under the rubble, without the dignity of a burial.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“This is the moment of truth. This is a turning point in history, and it is beyond regrettable — it is disastrous — that the Security Council was again prevented from rising to the moment to uphold its clear responsibilities in the face of the grave crisis threatening human lives and regional and international peace and security. Millions of Palestinian lives hang in the balance. Every single one of them is sacred and worth saving. Instead of allowing the Council to uphold its mandate by finally making a clear call, after two months of massacres, for the atrocities to end, the war criminals are now given more time to perpetuate their crimes. How can that be justified? How can anyone justify the slaughter of an entire people?”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9499 (2023) · source
“We thank all those co-sponsoring it from across the globe. What is happening in Palestine now and what will happen next will determine the future of our region for generations to come and will impact relations and perceptions across the world for generations to come. This is the time for courage and decisiveness. This is the time for action. Time is up. The Council needs to act, and the Council needs to act now.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“When faced with atrocities, it is not your right to call for them to end, it is your obligation to end them. Save lives. Save our lives and their lives. Heed the call by billions around the world, by an overwhelming majority of States from across the globe. Let the most noble human instinct carry us — the instinct to preserve life. There is no role more important for the Council than to save civilian lives — 2.3 million Palestinians are fighting for their lives as we speak, every single day. Save them. Tell them and show them that help is on the way. We call on the Council, in the name of humanity, in the name of justice, in the name of peace, to vote for a ceasefire by supporting the draft resolution presented by the United Arab Emirates, as the Arab representative on the Security Council.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“Stop rewriting international law to fit Israeli crimes and stop calling for respect for international law while supporting an assault that has torn it to shreds. The Palestinian people will not die in silence. The Palestinian people will not die in vain. The Palestinian people deserve respect — every people does, but we have earned it. We have paid the heaviest of prices to earn it, and we have survived every attempt to annihilate us over a century, with barely any means. Show us respect not in words but in deeds. Show respect to our lives and to our rights. This is a moment in history, one for which everyone will be asked where they stood, and that will determine who they truly are and what they really stand for. The entirety of international law lies on one premise: nothing justifies atrocities. This is an atrocity assault.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“And instead of being blamed, they are blaming everyone else, attacking everyone. That includes the Secretary-General, who is upholding his sacred mission and standing by the Charter of the United Nations. They are attacking States that are refusing to be complicit with such crimes, including their allies. They are attacking United Nations officials, United Nations agencies and humanitarian and human rights organizations performing their duty in the most impossible of circumstances. They are bullying and intimidating all those who stand for the rule of international law, because they believe there is an international law specific to them, that allows them to commit atrocities. How can this be allowed to continue? It cannot. It should not. It has to stop. Israeli exceptionalism has to end, and it has to end now.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“That includes those abducted in recent days in Gaza, humiliated and paraded in the streets, almost naked. We have 2 million hostages in the Gaza Strip. Our civilians have been attacked repeatedly. Our security and our very existence are under threat. Are we allowed to do what Israel does? The law should be upheld for everyone and against anyone. The same law protects all civilian life. There is no hierarchy of races or faith or nationalities. No one should take example from the horrors of the Second World War to justify horrors today against the Palestinian people. Everything we built as humankind after the Second World War was to prevent these horrors. Now they are taking place in Gaza against the Palestinian people, displayed on the screens of the entire world, and the war criminals conducting it have no shame.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“This is the war of the extremist coalition in power in Israel. No one should get sucked into it any further. Its aim is not security; its aim is to prevent forever any prospect of Palestinian independence and of peace. Those intentions are clear in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. No one should pretend there is any question regarding the criminal nature of this assault. No one should pretend that those launching the bombs everywhere care at all about people held captive. No one should pretend that this war is targeting Hamas, when almost all its victims are civilians and when 70 per cent of those killed are women and children. We have hostages being held by Israel as a means to terrorize and pressure our people — children, women and men of all ages, by the thousands.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“When facts show we are right, no one should persist in saying they could somehow allow this war to continue but be against its true objectives. This war is part of the assault to end the Palestinian people as a nation and to destroy the question of Palestine. If members do not share that objective, then they must stand against the war. The person leading this assault would sacrifice the Palestinian people and the Israeli people for his selfish political survival and is a sworn enemy of the two- State solution. His entire life has been dedicated to the annihilation of the Palestinian people and peace. He has been searching for an opportunity to put a definitive end to the national aspirations of the Palestinian people and to the aspirations for peace among Palestinians and Israelis. This is Netanyahu’s war.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“If two months of dehumanization and lies and massacres are not enough to make the Council understand Israel’s plan, what will? Regardless of how good the intentions of members are or how genuine their efforts, this is the moment of truth, as the Secretary-General correctly stated a few minutes ago. The shame is not on those calling for a ceasefire in the face of such atrocities; it haunts those refusing to do so. Israel’s objective is clear: it is to force people out. And regardless of how many times some say that will not happen, everything confirms we were right from day one. We told the Council they would make Gaza unliveable for all; that they would displace the people; that they were pushing them south and killing them in the process; and that eventually they would launch a full- fledged attack on the south to push people out.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“It will keep toying with members, fooling them, forcing them to discuss the number of trucks while people still cannot get food, water and medicine. It will keep telling the Council that if people only heeded its calls to head south then they would have been safe, while bombing them in the south itself. And now it is telling the Council it is creating imaginary safe zones, while it continues killing people everywhere. It will explain to the Council that all of Gaza is a military target, that everyone in Gaza can be killed, since they are either terrorists or human shields. Enough is enough. They are playing games with the Council; they are taking Council members for a ride. The Council needs to wake up and see reality as it is.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“Are we supposed to pretend we do not know that the objective is the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and the dispossession and forcible displacement of the Palestinian people, when so many Israeli representatives could not refrain from admitting it? Any who are against the destruction and displacement of the Palestinian people have to be in favour of an immediate ceasefire. When the Council refuses to call for a ceasefire, it is refusing to call for the only thing that can put an end to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This is how Israel is conducting the war, through atrocities. The Council can keep calling on it to protect civilians, to uphold the laws of war and to allow humanitarian aid in.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“It displaced 1.9 million Palestinians. It destroyed two thirds of their homes. It attacked, besieged, destroyed and neutralized virtually all the hospitals. It bombed the bakeries. It attacked United Nations shelters. It attacked journalists. It cut off the electricity. It placed every possible impediment on humanitarian aid and access. We are all supposed to pretend that this aggression is not aimed at the destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, when it has besieged and bombed our people and deprived them of all the requirements of life. I keep reading in the media that Israel has no clear war objectives.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“Allow me to thank the Secretary-General for his relentless efforts, for the clarity of his voice and for having upheld his sacred mission to stand up for the Charter of the United Nations and for the protection of civilians by calling — early on and ever since — for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Through him, allow me to also thank the United Nations for its humanitarian efforts. The United Nations has been the subject of despicable attacks for honouring its mandate as formulated by Member States. It is the duty of Member States to reject and put an end to such attacks, especially at a time when United Nations personnel on the ground are also victims, with many killed, wounded or displaced. In two months, Israel has killed 17,000 Palestinians, including 7,000 children. It wounded over 40,000 Palestinians.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“I would like to welcome you to New York, Sir, and to congratulate you and your country on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to express our appreciation for the presence of the Secretary- General and for his principled position reflected in the letter (S/2023/962) he transmitted to you recently, as well as for the crystal-clear and principled statement he just delivered to us. I thank him for being with us, for what he said and for the things that will hopefully be implemented from this moment on. You, Sir, are the third President of the Security Council to take office since Israel started its carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip. We hope that on this day, and under your presidency, the Council will finally be able to call for an immediate ceasefire.”
2023-12-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9498 (2023) · source
“What will we tell this generation of youth that has gone through multiple wars, surviving one to endure the next, who kept clinging to life, trying to find a way towards a better future? We owe it to them to do better. We should not be blind to each other’s wounds or traumas or history, or dismiss them. But that respect has to be built on a common vision of the future, where all can live and let live, in freedom, in dignity and in peace and security, not where one’s life is at the expense of another’s. There is no coexistence with supremacy or subjugation. This is a time for courageous decisions and resolute action, by all of us, guided by the imperative of upholding international law and by the urgent need to advance freedom, justice and peace.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“We did not justify the killing of a single Israeli civilian while Israel was mobilizing its entire propaganda machine to justify the killing of more than 14,000 Palestinians, more than 70 per cent of whom are children and women. No one should condone atrocities based on the identity of the perpetrator. Victims are the ones who deserve members’ solidarity, and that includes Palestinian victims, including those under the bombs and the siege, those arbitrarily detained and all those suffering from occupation and racial discrimination, apartheid. We have a few days to mobilize to stop the war against the Palestinian people, and we have a very narrow window to advance peace. We cannot continue to be driven away from it.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“She was killed with her husband, her 6-month- old baby boy and 50 other members of her family and community. Vivian Silver was killed on 7 October. She kept repeating that there is no road to peace — peace is the road. Those were her words. We owe it to them to ensure hope prevails, that peace prevails. For that to be possible we need to start with ending this madness, and to ensure that morality prevails, legality prevails and humanity prevails. We unequivocally oppose the killing of civilians and remain committed to the rule of international law. I repeat — we unequivocally oppose the killing of civilians and remain committed to the rule of international law. We have been clear — we believe in justice, not vengeance.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“And there is no peace possible in the Middle East without resolving the question of Palestine and without the attainment of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people. There are those who argue that the killing of people who believed in peace in Israel and in Palestine in recent weeks demonstrates that they were wrong to believe that peace will ever be possible. We believe it proves that we should have all listened to them. Maybe we could have avoided these dark days. Dima Alhaj, referred to by my sister the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, was 29 years old. She was part of the World Health Organization trauma and emergency team. She said a few months ago that she was proud of her work because it contributed to giving people hope and a new lease on life.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Netanyahu must be stopped by all of you, led by our steadfastness to realize our national homeland, Palestine. It is time to chart a different path: one where the Palestinian people are not denied or deprived of their national rights — to self- determination, to statehood and the right of refugees to return; one where no one denies the existence of the other; one where two States live side by side in peace and security, in line with the relevant Security Council and the General Assembly resolutions; one where no Palestinian or Israeli is killed; and one where we enjoy equal measures of freedom, peace and security. The atrocities that we have witnessed over the past few weeks should lead us to the only conclusion possible: there is no military solution to the conflict, only a political one.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“This is the map that he showed from the rostrum of the General Assembly, erasing the nation of Palestine and the Palestinian people — Israel from the river to the sea, by the Prime Minister of the State of Israel. And, for good measure, he added the unlawfully annexed Syrian Golan. What outrage did it spark? None. Because every Council member knew that that was Israel’s intention — to wipe us from the face of the Earth, which will never happen. It will never happen because we have existed from the beginning of history and time, and we will continue to exist as a proud Palestinian people in our own national homeland, the State of Palestine. What Council members see today in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is the attempt to make this map a reality.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The assaults on the lives and dignity of our people in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem — everywhere in occupied Palestine — have not stopped for a single minute. Every Palestinian family has experienced pain and loss at the core of their being and souls. Only a few weeks ago, the Israeli Prime Minister addressed the world from the most important platform in the world, the rostrum of the General Assembly, and presented his vision for the new Middle East, wiping Palestine off the map. For all those outraged by the slogan “from the river to the sea”, this is the map that the Israeli Prime Minister raised here at the United Nations.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“From calling Palestinians human animals to imposing a siege on them; from collective punishment to calls for their annihilation; and from indiscriminate, widespread and systematic bombing to the brutal force deployed by its occupation soldiers and settlers in the West Bank, all the evidence has concurred with and has confirmed its true objective. Council members have borne witness to those atrocities, which have been made possible only through systemic impunity. There is no denying the suffering endured by Israeli families on 7 October, but Israel is not faced with an existential threat; Palestine is. Israel is not being destroyed; Palestine is. It is now 22 November, and the bombs have not stopped for a single day for 45 days.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The Palestinian people are entitled to freedom and dignity on their land and during their lifetime. No more exodus, and no more delay. The Nakba has to end. Despair, devastation and destruction will never bring security to Israel. Dispossession, displacement and the denial of Palestinians’ rights will never bring security to Israel. While Israel claims that it is respecting the laws of war, it was unable to restrain itself from confessing to its crimes. Its statements, actions and clear objectives all converged to confirm its intentions: the destruction of the Palestinian nation and its legitimate aspirations.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Those intentions started with hints and then became explicit in interviews, memos and op-eds by its most senior officials. Israeli leaders keep talking about “voluntary resettlement”, which is the code name for forced transfer. What is voluntary about bombing and besieging and killing and maiming and arresting and humiliating? They deprive 2.3 million people of the means for their own survival and then tell them that they have a choice: leave this land or leave this Earth. That is the choice that they are giving them. Israel is stunned that years of an unliveable life did not convince Palestinians to leave. We love our land. We love our homeland. We love the Gaza Strip. We love every part of the State of Palestine. Even when we are faced with the threat of imminent death, we still want to stay on our land.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The Council’s resolution (resolution 2712 (2023)) was clear about the enormous tasks that need to be undertaken during the truce: enabling rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, facilitating the provision of desperately needed humanitarian aid throughout the Gaza Strip and rescuing and recovering the thousands who remain trapped under the rubble. That must be done immediately. The resolution also rejects the forced displacement of the Palestinian civilian population, in grave breach of international law. Already, unbearably, more than 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced from their homes. This is inhumane. This is a crime against humanity. Israel said its aim was security but could not refrain from revealing its true plan — the forced transfer of Palestinians.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“I want everyone to remember the small child shivering in the hospital, who kept showing his wounds to another child with severe burns. I want everyone to remember babies lying together, out of their incubators, gasping for air until the lungs of several of them surrendered, failed by all of humankind. I want everyone to remember those images before once again, in a few days’ time, giving any justification for this horrific assault to resume. In the next few days, families will be able to embrace, to mourn, to start healing the wounds that can be healed, including the families that will be reunited with loved ones who were held captive. This cannot be just a pause before the massacres start all over again.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“That is the way to protect civilians, to prevent regional spillover, to help the millions suffering from this humanitarian catastrophe that we failed to avert and to release those held captive. A resumption of the aggression would undermine all those goals. I want everyone here to think of the father who carried his wounded child and could not find a hospital to save him until he died in his arms. Since he could not stop to bury him, the father carried this immense love, now transformed into an unbearable sorrow, for miles, unable to stop walking — from nowhere to nowhere. I want everyone to remember a girl comforting her little brother with words that no child should ever have to utter, after they both said goodbye to their dead sibling at the hospital.”
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“Finally, I thank the journalists, who have put their lives in danger by reporting on this immense human tragedy and humanitarian catastrophe. The State of Palestine welcomes the agreement for a truce, reached yesterday, and expresses its appreciation to all those who contributed to reaching this agreement, especially our brothers from Qatar and Egypt. Every 10 minutes without bombardments saves a Palestinian child. Thanks to this truce, hundreds of Palestinian children will not be killed. We owe it to them and to all the civilians in the Gaza Strip to put a definitive end to this criminal assault on the Palestinian people. All those who contributed to stopping this madness must now work tirelessly to ensure a way forward that averts the resumption of the aggression.”
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“At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for your able leadership of the Security Council. I also wish to thank the United Arab Emirates and Malta for calling for this meeting focused on women and children and for their efforts in elaborating resolution 2712 (2023), adopted by the Council few days ago (see S/PV.9479). Allow me also to thank the briefers and, through them, the United Nations as a whole for its mobilization in the face of this grave crisis and to express our gratitude to all the heroes on the ground who have taken every risk, even to their own lives, to provide their communities with humanitarian aid and relief. That includes doctors, humanitarian and medical personnel and rescue teams.”
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“What is happening in Gaza cannot be read in isolation from those aims. We need a ceasefire now, with no further delay in international action for freedom, justice and peace. There is an alternative reality in which Palestinians are free and no Palestinian and no Israeli is killed. It is time for that to prevail. It is time for peace.”
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“It is acting accordingly. Thirdly, Israel is not under a threat of destruction. It is destroying Palestine. It considers the Palestinian State a strategic threat. It is against Palestinian rule anywhere. All of its policies are designed to undermine any such rule. Fourthly, the plan of the current Israeli Government has now been revealed in statements, leaked memorandums and op-eds. Let us stop pretending that we are not hearing what it is saying. Its plan is the continued dispossession, displacement and denial of the rights of the Palestinian people in order to complete the Nakba that started in 1948. Recognizing that is the first step towards defeating those plans, which not only deny our people their rights but also deny the region any chance of shared peace and security.”
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“But for now there is an urgent need to save lives, stop the killing, end the forced displacement, allow humanitarian aid in, ensure humanitarian access and protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. Those should not be words in a resolution — they should be a reality that our people on the ground can witness immediately. Finally, I have to address some points for those who are still trying to maintain untenable positions. First, Israel is effectively saying that it can kill any and every Palestinian without ever being held responsible for their death, as they are either terrorists, terrorist sympathizers or human shields. Anyone allowing that logic to prevail is contributing to the killing. Secondly, Israel considers all of us terrorists — all of our factions, our non-governmental organizations and our human rights defenders.”
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