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Mansour

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first: 2006-03-30
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“This same Minister also declared, in referring to video footage of an Israeli soldier deliberately shooting a Palestinian man, that "the sniper deserves a promotion, whereas the cameraman deserves a demotion". Such wilful targeting of civilians is terrorism in every sense of the word. It is a grave breach of international humanitarian, human rights and criminal law and violates the obligation to protect civilians. The international community must demand answers from Israel. The Security Council's failure to address this situation cannot be justified. The Council must speak with one voice to condemn these crimes, insist on their cessation, including a full lifting of the blockade, demand an investigation and ensure protection for the Palestinian people based on international law.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Why are civilians, including children, being targeted with live ammunition in a blatant shoot-to-kill-and- maim pattern, with at least 41 Palestinians killed by the occupying forces and more than 5,000 injured, many permanently disabled by the severity of their injuries, since the protests began? Where else in the world could an entire civilian population, over half of them children, be imprisoned and designated as a target, as is being done by Israeli War Minister Avigdor Lieberman? Minister Lieberman has openly declared that "there are no innocent civilians in Gaza", meaning that the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza are not innocent and a legitimate target.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“The Palestinian people live under the longest military occupation and most protracted refugee crisis in modern history. They endure constant displacement, colonization and demonization, all aimed at their denial. Against that backdrop, the restraint should be seen as extraordinary and such protests as a natural response to the illegal and cruel occupation. Let us all here agree that it is not a benign occupation. Even deeming it a belligerent occupation is an understatement. Why is the occupying Power therefore so surprised that a people would rise up to demand its dignity and freedom? Why is it so outrageous that a people would use all possible peaceful means to bring an end to its persecution? Why have Israeli officials commanded their military forces to fire at peaceful protesters?”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“That resilient and hopeful spirit is at the heart of the Great March of Return, launched by Palestinians in Gaza on 30 March, Land Day, and of the protests carried out since then. Contrary to Israeli propaganda, the protests have been peaceful demonstrations by unarmed and defenceless Palestinian civilians calling for their rights, including to return, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III), and to self- determination, and demanding an end to the Israeli blockade that has collectively punished, impoverished and disfigured the entire society. Exercising their right to peaceful assembly, those men, women and young people are protesting an oppression that can no longer be endured, pleading for their voices to be heard.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“That has vastly compounded the misery and suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people by the five decades of Israeli military occupation since 1967 and the seven decades of dispossession and denial of their right to return to their homes and ancestral lands since their ruthless uprooting in the Nakba of 1948. Yet, as in all other areas of occupied Palestine and in exile in the refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, our people in Gaza have remained more than patient. Despite the repeated upheavals, assaults, crises, deep deprivation and marginalization, they have remained steadfast, as is also reflected at this time in the perseverance of the Palestinian refugees in Syria, who face the extreme hardships and dangers of war.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“While such statements should be considered standard, we are obliged to recognize them in view of the constant harassment and intimidation to which the United Nations and its representatives are exposed every time they risk taking a public, principled stand on our issue, as opposed to the artificial and so- called balanced stand that Israel bullies States into adopting, despite the complete lack of symmetry in the abnormal and unjust situation. Today, that extremely abnormal and unjust situation is most starkly exemplified by the dire situation in the Gaza Strip, where for more than a decade 2 million Palestinians, the majority of whom are refugees, have been subjected to an illegal Israeli land, sea and air blockade.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“On behalf of the State of Palestine. I congratulate Peru on its presidency of the Security Council and on its skilled leadership of the Council at this critical time. Today, I must also express sincere condolences to the Council and to the Permanent Mission, Government and people of C6te d'Ivoire, in particular, on the passing of our dear colleague, Ambassador Bernard Tanoh- Boutchoue. May he rest in eternal peace. He was truly a kind and genuine diplomat. He will be greatly missed. We thank Special Coordinator Nikolay Mladenov for his briefing. We express our appreciation for the ongoing efforts of the Secretary-General and Mr. Mladenov, including the recent statements made in line with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“With the high number of deaths today, we call once more on the international community, particularly the Security Council, to act now to provide protection to the Palestinian people in order to avert more bloodshed and to save innocent Palestinian lives, and to defuse this volatile situation, which clearly constitutes a threat to international peace and security. The international community must uphold its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and to bring an immediate end to the occupying Power's military aggression. As we have stated in the past, the Palestinian people cannot remain the exception to international commitments to and obligations under international law, including the obligation to protect civilians from atrocities and grave breaches, especially under foreign military occupation.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“We call on the Council to act swiftly to uphold its Charter duties and the integrity and authority of its resolutions in light of the violations of and provocations against the rights and legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people. The international community must condemn unequivocally and in the strongest terms Israel's criminal and illegal actions in the occupied Palestinian territory, especially in the Gaza Strip. Israel must be held fully accountable for all of its crimes, including the most recent killings today of innocent Palestinian civilians, in accordance with international law and the principles ofjustice. We welcome the requests made by many Council members for investigations of the Israeli occupation forces with respect to the massacre that has taken place today in the Gaza Strip.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“In this connection, it is beyond tragic that millions of Palestinians continue to live either in exile as refugees, denied the inalienable right to return to their homes, or under Israel's half- century belligerent military occupation of the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, where they are forced to endure the constant violation of their fundamental human rights, including Israel's ongoing theft of Palestinian land for illegal settlements, its destruction of Palestinian homes and agricultural land, the revocation of residency rights, deportations, recurring brutal military assaults that have resulted in mass civilian casualties - such as those that took place in Gaza in 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014 - and the denial of the internationally recognized legal right of return of millions of stateless Palestinian refugees.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“The people will continue to fight for their rights, including their rights to be free from occupation and to live in peace and security and with dignity. Tragically, as we witness the events of today, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians are peacefully marching throughout the occupied State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, as well as among the Palestinian population living in Israel and in the diaspora, these events remind us that Al-Nakba did not end in 1948 and continues to this day.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“We should not forget that the 2 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza already suffer immeasurably from Israel's lO-year blockade, which has led to a dire socioeconomic and humanitarian crisis. It is more than clear, in words and deeds, that the latest the incitements of Israeli officials and the barbaric Violence of its occupying forces against the rights and lives of the Palestinian people have little to do with Israel's so-called security and everything to do with maintaining its strangulating control over the lives of every Palestinian man, women and child living under its brutal occupation. It should be stated that the occupying Power's ongoing violent silencing of all Palestinian non-violent actions against its systematic dehumanization of the Palestinian people and the denial of their inalienable rights will never succeed.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“Such incitement even led to statements being made by human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, which issued a warning yesterday calling on the Israeli occupying forces to "refrain from using excessive force" following reports that it had deployed more than 100 snipers - as despicted in the Israeli media - with orders "to shoot anyone who breaches the wall between Israel and Gaza". In addition to the snipers, the occupying forces also sent armoured vehicles, sniffer and attack dogs, as well as hundreds of other occupying forces equipped with all sorts of lethal ammunition to use as they pleased and without regard to Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“This year's commemoration of Al-Nakba will solemnly observe the passage of 70 years since more than 800,000 Palestinians - 70 per cent of our people at that time - were forcibly uprooted and expelled from their homes and lands or fled in fear for their lives after brutal massacres were carried out in over 400 Palestinian towns and villages by Zionist terrorist groups in Mandate Palestine, in a clear act of ethnic cleansing. As is usual practice for Israel, today's Vicious attacks by Israel against disarmed and unprotected Palestinian civilians were premeditated and deliberate. Israeli officials have been preparing the ground for these attacks with inciting, provocative and violent rhetoric.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“People who were demonstrating peacefully, as was their right to do under all elements of international law, including international human rights law, cannot be equated in any way with the belligerence, attacks and massacre committed by the Israeli armed forces. To those who would call for a balanced perspective, I say that there is no balance in this case. It was a case of armed forces unleashing massive power against unarmed civilian protestors demonstrating peacefully, leading to the massacre and the large number of casualties. Today's protests were meant to kick off six weeks of peaceful protests leading up to the commemoration of Al-Nakba on 15 May.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“Yet this is exactly what Israel, the occupying Power, has done and continues to do year after year ever since its inception. Those peaceful demonstrators posed no threat whatsoever to Israel or to its heavily armed soldiers. I repeat - those peaceful demonstrators posed no threat whatsoever to Israel or to its heavily armed soldiers. Yet, Israel's trigger-happy soldiers used live ammunition, tear gas and rubber bullets to shoot indiscriminately at those non-violent protestors, who were demonstrating inside the Gaza Strip near the site of the well-fortified barrier that separates them from Israel. How can that be condoned?”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“The names of some of the Palestinians tragically killed are Mohammed Najjar, age 25; Mahmoud Muammar, age 38; Mohammed Abu Omar, age 22; Ahmed Oudeh, age 19; Jihad Freneh, age 33; Mahmoud Saadi Rahmi, age 33; Abdelfattah Abdelnabi, age 22; and Ibrahim Abu Shaar, age 20; as well as Iyad Abdelal, Abdelqader Al-Hawajiri, Sari Abu Odeh, Hamdan Abu Amsheh, Jihad Abu Jamous, Bader Al-Sabbagh and Naji Abu Hjai, whose ages remain unknown. Moreover, earlier on Friday Omar Waheed Abu Samour, a farmer from the Gaza Strip, was also killed by Israeli artillery fire while standing on his land near Khan Younis, just hours ahead of the peaceful and non-violent demonstrations. There is nothing more repulsive than a massacre of unarmed, defenceless people, including women and children.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“The majority ofthose killed were taking part in a peaceful, non-violent demonstration - a peaceful, non-violent demonstration - to mark the forty- second anniversary of Land Day, commemorating events in which six Palestinians were killed in protest against Israel's illegal expropriation of thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in 1976, and to reiterate the right of return for Palestine refugees. In this regard, I recall that 70 per cent of Gaza's 2 million Palestinians are registered refugees whose right of return has been systematically been denied by Israel.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“(spoke in English) We come before the Security Council today with a sense ofrepugnance and urgency in light ofIsrael's latest campaign of military aggression and attacks against the defenceless Palestinian civilian population, in grave breach of international law, including international humanitarian law and the relevant provisions regarding the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Today, at least 17 Palestinian civilians have been killed and more than 1,400 injured - many of them seriously - in the besieged Gaza Strip. Tomorrow has been declared by our Government as a national day of mourning in Palestine.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“We bow respectfully to our heroic martyrs and wounded, and we stress their leading role always. We condemn in the strongest terms today's heinous massacre and we call for an end to it. We demand that those who are responsible be brought to justice and call for international protection for civilians in the occupied territory. The Security Council must uphold its responsibility and take a stance in condemning the massacre in order to put an end to it and protect our civilians. If that effort is blocked and the Council is unable to assume its responsibilities, those responsible must also bear the responsibility for covering up and protecting the Israeli criminals instead of stopping them.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“Allow me at the outset to thank Kuwait for requesting this emergency meeting, and you, Sir, for accommodating that request in a very speedy manner. I also want to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs for his briefing at the beginning of this meeting. Before I deliver my statement, I would like to say a few words in Arabic, mainly addressed to our people in the occupied Palestinian territories. (spoke in Arabic) At the outset, I wish to commend our steadfast and valiant people all across the occupied territory of the State of Palestine, including our people in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as well as our people living inside the Green Line and in the diaspora, as they commemorate Land Day and the March of Return.”
2018-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8219 (2018) · source
“On our part, in spite of immense challenges and growing hopelessness, we shall continue to adhere to international law and to engage responsibly with the international community, using all political, diplomatic, legal and popular means possible to realize the freedom and independence of our people, restore their rights, and establish a just and lasting peace. We respectfully ask that that good faith be reciprocated and that the Council not let the Palestinian people down at this most critical existential moment.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We urge all peace-loving countries, large and small, to support our call for collective action without delay in the interest of peace and justice. We reiterate our appeal to those countries that have not yet done so to recognize the State of Palestine on the basis of the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with the relevant resolutions, in respect of the erga omnes right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and as a significant contribution to a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on the vision of two States living side by side in peace and security. All States must step up their efforts to uphold their commitments and obligations to bring an end to the unlawful and unjust situation that prevails. No peace initiative will ever succeed otherwise.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We call on the Quartet, bearing in mind its responsibilities; the Security Council, bearing in mind its Charter duties and relevant resolutions; and the United Nations, bearing in mind its permanent responsibility towards the question of Palestine until it is justly resolved, to act now, on the basis of international law and with the tools available to them, to stem this dangerous downward spiral and salvage the prospects for peace. We underscore the stated readiness and capacities of the European Union and the Russian Federation to fulfil their respective roles in the Quartet, in accordance with its Security Council-mandated responsibilities, and believe that its expansion to include other relevant and willing international and regional partners would serve the cause of peace.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Recent developments to the contrary must not dissuade us from moving forward on that basis, but rather must strengthen our resolve. We reiterate the Palestinian leadership's call, as made at the highest levels at the Palestine Liberation Organization Central Council last week, for a collective peace process under international auspices aimed at achieving a just solution and fulfilling the long- denied rights of the Palestinian people. It is a fair request for, despite all our best efforts, it is clear that unilateral initiatives have failed. The mechanisms for such a collective process already exist and should be immediately activated.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Now is the time for collective action in response to the explicit calls made in resolution 2334 (2016), including for intensification of international and regional diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace on the basis of the relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative, the Quartet road map and an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967. Now is the time for the international community to mobilize the political will to implement the relevant resolutions and to revive the peace option, averting the grave impact that the continued unravelling of the situation will have regionally and globally.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The failure to implement the relevant resolutions and to hold Israel accountable in the face of its flagrant non-compliance and violations only further foster such impunity, diminishing peace prospects day by day, hour by hour. Complacency and defeatism in the face of such crimes and, worse yet, any manner of complicity are totally unacceptable. In that context, actions violating relevant resolutions and granting recognition to Israel's illegal measures in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, are inexcusable, unlawful and must be rejected by all.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016) one year ago in this Chamber, the dramatic deterioration of the situation, the escalation of tensions and the deepening political deadlock have been cause for grave concern. We continue to believe that resolution 2334 (2016) represents the best chance for rectifying the course and salvaging the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines with the aim of ending the Israeli occupation that began in 1967, thereby justly resolving the question of Palestine in all its aspects and making Palestinian-Israeli peace a reality. That was at the heart of the urgency of the resolution's adoption and its unanimous global welcome at the time - with the exception of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Government, who stand in obstruction of the two-State solution and all peace efforts.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We also recognize the important role of the host countries and the generous response of some States to accelerate their support at this time in order to help the Agency, which was mandated by the General Assembly, in line with obligations, commitments and the relevant resolutions, pending ajust solution. We call on all States to increase their support to the Agency if possible, highlighting the Commissioner-General's message that beyond humanitarian aid, UNRWA stands for hope and respect for rights and dignity, which are so crucial in the absence of a solution and the growing despair and uncertainty about the future. In the span of one year, we have seen hopes for peace rise and suddenly be dashed.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We appeal for compassion and the upholding of humanitarian law, principles and collective responsibilities. We urge donors to enhance support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and to ensure the continuity of its internationally recognized, vital humanitarian and development assistance to more than 5.5 million Palestine refugees and of its contribution to regional stability in this most volatile period. We welcome the recent statement by Commissioner-General Pierre Kr'ahenbiihl and his call on the international community to stand with the Agency and respect its long-standing commitments and shared principles. We also welcome Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' efforts to mobilize support.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the very reason for the United Nations existence are being trampled before our eyes and without consequence. Once again, the message is that the law does not matter and that those who follow the rules will lose, while those who break and mock them will win. What impact will such a message have on our youth at this critical moment in the history of our region and the world? In the same vein, we must ask: What message is being sent by the reduction of humanitarian support at this time of need? What is to be gained from depriving innocent, vulnerable refugees of subsistence and driving them to desperation? How does that serve the cause ofpeace and stability? How can the politicization of humanitarian assistance be accepted? It cannot in any way.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“All of that is being done under the pretext of security and religious edicts, whereby any means, no matter how brutal, immoral or illegal, are justified in the ongoing pillage, displacement, humiliation and torture of the other. Even in this Chamber, the highest multilateral and political security body, and in a secular Organization established on the base of international law - our one common language - we are subjected to biblical preaching and the denigration of the rights of an entire people on the basis of religious ideology and the premises of supremacy and exclusivity. That not only contradicts international law and human rights, but sets a dangerous precedent in this Council extending far beyond the question of Palestine.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“They are forcibly driven from their homes and land by a violent, oppressive occupation that is unrelenting in its colonization, fragmentation and annexation of their territory, with settlements and the feverish pace of the wall's construction. Their human rights are trampled, and they are besieged and blockaded in a massive form of collective punishment. They are arrested, detained and imprisoned. Even children are not spared, as we heard from Mr. Mladenov this morning, We witnessed such horror in the plights of a 16-year-old girl, Ahed Tamimi, and a 16-year-old- boy, Malik Al-Jawabra, who, along with the hundreds of other children, were abducted from their homes, held captive by the occupation and tried by the only juvenile military court in the world.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“It is a crisis that unquestionably concerns our very existence in our national homeland, our rights, including to self-determination and return, and our survival as a people. And, as in similar crises in history, it is entirely man-made and is made worse every day by man's decisions, by greed, cruelty and might over right, while tormenting innocent children, women and men and determining their fate. Their crime? It is their ethnicity as Palestinians, and their religion as Muslims or Christians, as non-Jews, and their insistence on living in freedom and dignity in their homeland. For that, they are openly degraded and demonized by the occupying Power and its people, who are incited against them to the point of outright extremism and terror.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We do that with the deep conviction in the justice of our cause and concern for the plight of our people, but also with the abiding conviction in the power of international law and the role of this Organization to deliver us to justice and a peaceful end to the conflict, which has inflicted such suffering and tragedy. Right now, the world is witnessing in shocking detail the dehumanization of the Palestinian people - their subjugation and deprivation, attempts to erase their history, heritage and identity, and the systematic destruction of their generations-old communities, their will and their hope, with no end to that travesty on the horizon. Our stand is therefore neither a case of brinkmanship or posturing. This is about people's lives - in this case, about an entire nation.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“That has been his life's work, and the Palestinian leadership has conformed to it, in word and deed, for decades. Doubting that, in the storm of provocations and schemes to which we are currently being subjected in response to our firm stance on principle, reveals utter ill intent and is unethical and offensive. Against the backdrop of those developments and the ever-worsening situation on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in our refugee camps throughout the region, it would be an understatement to say that the Palestinian people are facing an existential crisis. We have rung the alarm bells before, to no avail. Yet we are compelled by the gravity of the situation to do so again today.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The commitment of President Abbas to diplomacy, international law, negotiations and non-violence as the means for achieving a peaceful and just solution that would realize the rights of the Palestinian people and their legitimate aspirations to live in freedom, dignity and security in their homeland, while coexisting side by side with Israel in the context of a two-State solution, has been demonstrated time and time again. President Abbas continues to actively consult with capitals across the globe, having just visited Brussels several days ago and Amman, Ankara, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Beijing, Berlin, Madrid, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, Washington, DC, and elsewhere over the past year. He has also received delegations nonstop in our continuing search for peace.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“It is therefore appalling to witness the resurgence of claims by the Israeli Prime Minister and other Government officials that the President of the State of Palestine, President Mahmoud Abbas, is not a man of peace. Exploiting the current circumstances and the anger and resentment they have caused, they are again attempting to distract the international community and evade responsibility for the political deadlock and deplorable situation on the ground by making such false, shameful claims about the Palestinian side. We have seen such demonization before; it is repugnant and we firmly reject it. History and facts speak for themselves, and such claims could not be farther from the truth.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We have done that despite the enormous sacrifice we have been asked to make in the context of the historic compromise devised by the international community in the form of the two-State solution along the 1967 lines. We accepted that compromise 30 years ago, in 1988, and have adhered to it ever since throughout every phase of the peace process, from Oslo forward. We have emained committed even in the face of the duplicity, bad faith and illegal policies and practices by Israel, the occupying Power, destroying not only the two-State solution, inch by inch and day by day, but also destroying the very belief that peace is possible. That cannot be reasonably denied by anyone.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We will therefore remain resolute on three counts: in calling for the application of international law to the question ofPalestine in all ofits dimensions and without exception, in our historic pursuit of the inalienable rights of our people and in our commitment to peace and coexistence. Nothing that we have done in the recent period or at any other point in the long years of the Middle East peace process should be misconstrued or cynically portrayed as a rejection of peace. On the contrary, although it is unacceptable that we - the aggrieved party, the occupied people, dispossessed, colonized and brutalized - face demands to repeatedly prove our worthiness to be granted inalienable human rights, including to be a free people in our own land, we have consistently demonstrated our good faith and our commitment to peace.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“It is a position of respect for the legitimate national aspirations of our people, who have been so patient and steadfast in spite of the grave injustice they continue to endure. It is a position of respect for the human rights and dignity of our people, which we cannot allow to be denied. No price tag can be put on the rights and dignity of any people. They cannot be quashed by threats, intimidation or punitive action. Such attempts must be rejected by all who seek peace and justice and who truly believe in international law as the path for their realization.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We welcome the General Assembly's decisive affirmation in that regard on 21 December 2017 (see A/ES-lO/PV.37) and reiterate our deep appreciation as well for the actions undertaken by the Arab Ministerial Council, the Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries in response to that crisis. In response to repeated distortions of our position, I am compelled to clarify further. Our position is not intended as disrespect and should not be interpreted as such by anyone. On the contrary, it is a position rooted in full respect for the law, for the principles of justice and equity, for the Charter, for the Council, for the Assembly and for the decades-long international consensus on the parameters of a peaceful solution.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Assumptions that all of that could somehow be skirted, or that peace could be achieved otherwise-whetherunilaterally orbyillegalimposition of facts on the ground - are faulty assumptions at best, and dangerous and reprehensible at worst. Our position rejecting the 6 December 2017 decision on Jerusalem by the United States Administration has been fully conveyed to the Council and remains unwavering. We remain insistent with regard to respect for the law and our rights, and we reject that unilateral, provocative decision, which directly contravenes the Charter and United Nations resolutions on the matter. That decision is null and void and has no legal effect on the status of Jerusalem.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“At the same time, however, we found solace and hope in the resounding rejection of such decisions and in the unequivocal reaffirmations - here in the Chamber, in the General Assembly and in capitals around the world - of the relevant resolutions, including, inter alia, resolutions 476 (1980), 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016); of respect for the legal, political and historical status of the city of Jerusalem; of East Jerusalem's status as occupied and as an integral part ofthe rest of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967; of respect for the historical status quo at Al-Haram Al-Sharif and of Jordan's custodianship of the Muslim and Christian holy sites in the city; and of fundamental positions and principles recognizing Jerusalem's special status, sensitivity and centrality to peacemaking, and hence its designation among the final-status issues to be resolved for the achievement of ajust and lasting peace.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“While the draft resolution was, regrettably, vetoed (see S/PV.8139), we remain grateful for the honourable stance taken by the overwhelming majority of countries in reaffirming the relevant resolutions and the key principles to Palestinian-Israeli peace that are a matter of international consensus. Looking back, the year 2017 ended on a disheartening note, as we bore witness to decisions denigrating the rights and national aspirations of the Palestinian people and dismissing the global consensus that has prevailed for decades based on the Security Council's resolutions on Jerusalem and the Palestinian- Israeli conflict in its entirety.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We also renew sincere appreciation to the countries and delegations of Egypt, Italy, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay upon completing their terms, during which they served with exemplary commitment, competence and wisdom. We recognize their countries' contributions to the Council's efforts to address the many critical issues on its agenda, including the question of Palestine, throughout their tenure and in the face of many crises. Those contributions were most recently reflected in the vote taken by the Council on 18 December 2017 on the draft resolution (S/2017/1060) submitted by Egypt, as the Arab representative on the Council, on the status of Jerusalem.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Mr. Mansour: On behalf of the State of Palestine, I congratulate Kazakhstan on assuming the Security Council presidency and express appreciation to you, Sir, for your able leadership of the Council's important agenda. We also thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. I also extend our warmest congratulations to the new elected members of the Security Council - Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland - and wish them every success in upholding their responsibilities in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the Council's resolutions as they collectively seek to fulfil the duty to maintain international peace and security.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We urge the Council to continue to firmly stand on the side of right. Those in favour of peace do not ratify illegal acts and measures; instead, they uphold the rights of the Palestinian people, as enshrined in international law and General Assembly and Security Council resolutions. They also recognize the State of Palestine and stand in support of freedom, which is the key to ensuring that peace will finally prevail in the land.”
2017-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8139 (2017) · source
“Five hundred of them were shot. Israel has also detained hundreds of our people, including children. We pray for the families of the martyrs. We wish a speedy recovery for the wounded and freedom for the detained. How many more lives will be sacrificed before our people can finally enjoy the same rights as those enjoyed by the rest of the world? We reiterate that the arrogance of the occupying Power will only serve to strengthen our determination to liberate our land, achieve our independence and restore our rights and dignity. The time is past due for our people to achieve their rights, including to self-determination, and to finally live in freedom, dignity, peace and security in their independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, side by side with all peoples of the region and the globe.”
2017-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8139 (2017) · source
“In the coming days, while the world will be celebrating Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ, lights will remain turned off in the land of Jesus Christ and celebrations will not take place in Jerusalem, Bethlehem or Nazareth. Joy has been stolen from us by a decision that, in the name of realism, has denied reality and violated the rights of an entire nation and insulted the feelings of believers around the world. Protests have erupted against this decision, not only in Palestine but across the globe, in defence of justice, freedom and dignity and in rejection of colonialism and unilateralism. In Palestine, thousands have demonstrated against the United States decision and face killing, repression, arrest and oppression by the Israeli occupying forces. Eleven Palestinians have been killed, 3,500 wounded and hundreds arrested.”
2017-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8139 (2017) · source