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“In that regard, it is incumbent on the international community to apply the pressure required to end Israel's occupation that began in 1967 and bring the Israeli side into compliance with international law. In the meantime, the Palestinian leadership will continue to pursue accountability for the Palestinian people, including children, through every available legitimate avenue, including the International Criminal Court.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Finally, assistance must flow into Gaza, and the international community should do whatever it takes to ensure Israeli compliance with international law, including by lifting its illegal blockade. This is imperative for a real change in the tragic situation of Palestinian children under Israeli occupation to come to pass. The plight of Palestinian children cannot be divorced from the wider political context. Only an independent State of Palestine where the Palestinian people can live in freedom and dignity will bring permanent relief and lasting peace and security to our children. The Palestinian leadership remains committed to the two-State solution. However, the Israeli Prime Minister has clearly made his opposition known through words and actions.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“First, we call on the Secretary-General to add the Israeli occupying forces to the United Nations global list of parties that consistently commit grave violations against children. We urge Member States to join us in this call. The evidence is abundant. The criteria are to be assessed objectively. Any such assessment will lead to the conclusion that the Israeli occupying forces must be listed. Failure to do so implies politicization of the mechanism, which undermines its credibility, and if credibility is undermined for one case, it is undermined for all cases. Secondly, the international community should demand the immediate and permanent release of all children from Israeli captivity. There can be no justification for detention and abuse of children.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“We commend United Nations agencies, in particular UNICEF and UNRWA, for their tireless efforts aimed at assisting those children in need. It is clear that the crimes committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against children are a symptom of a wider problem - a complete lack of accountability. We have continued to repeat that the international community's unwillingness to enforce international law when it comes to Israel only fuels its lawlessness and the culture of impunity among the occupying forces. In this regard, we call on the international community, including the Security Council, to take three immediate steps to end this cycle of impunity and protect Palestinian children.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“The Israeli military court is the world's first and only juvenile military court, and since 2000 an estimated 10,000 children have been detained and prosecuted there. Their numbers are growing. Over the past three years, child detentions have increased by 87 per cent. In detention, children are blindfolded, strip-searched and subjected to physical and verbal abuse and solitary confinement that traumatizes them. They endure cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment amounting to torture. The occupying Power's collective punishment and abuse of Palestinian children are also a source of ongoing trauma and suffering. In Gaza alone, six months after Israel's latest attack, Palestinian children continue to suffer from hunger, fear, deprivation and isolation. More than 400,000 children in Gaza are in urgent need of psychosocial support.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“At this rate, without a lifting of the Israeli blockade or the delivery of assistance at the scope and scale needed, Gaza's reconstruction will take over 100 years, a deplorable situation inconsistent with international humanitarian law. Children f 52 per cent of the population i are suffering disproportionately. Israeli policies, approved at the highest levels, are not only gross attacks against children, but are systematic violations of international law tantamount to war crimes. Israel's deliberate oppression of Palestinian children has no limits; not a day goes by in which children's rights are not violated. In that regard, I must also draw attention to the Israeli practice of detaining Palestinian children, some as young as eight years old.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Again, these attacks were not just a one-time occurrence, as the occupying Power has systematically destroyed Palestinian homes and civilian properties in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, rendering thousands upon thousands of families homeless, forcibly displacing them and leaving children in a state of perpetual insecurity and trauma. Thirdly, Israel denies humanitarian access to the entire occupied Palestinian people, endangering the well-being and survival of Palestinian children. Since 2007, Israel has subjected the more than 1.8 million civilians in Gaza to an illegal, immoral blockade. The situation has left Gaza devastated and dependent on aid and has completely debilitated its economy and infrastructure, including water networks, with 90 per cent of water being unfit for humans.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Israel's previous assaults on occupied Gaza caused a high proportion of child casualties, in addition to the incessant attacks on children in the occupied West Bank by the occupying forces and extremist settlers, with almost 1,200 injured in the year of 2014 alone. Secondly, the occupying Power deliberately targets schools and hospitals. During the war on Gaza, the Israeli Government repeatedly received the precise locations of hospitals, medical centres and schools, including those where it was fully aware that families had been sheltering. Yet the occupying Power attacked and damaged 279 schools and 75 health centres and hospitals, in addition to the thousands of civilian homes it targeted and destroyed.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Israel, the occupying Power, is in continuous, grave breach of international law, including, inter alia, the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Charter of the United Nations and Security Council resolutions. It is without a doubt that Israel systematically fulfils three of the six criteria used to assess grave violations against children. First, Israeli occupying forces engage in a pattern of killing and maiming children. The occupying Power cynically claims that its military strikes are "conducted in a precise and surgical manner", yet in last summer's Israeli war on the Gaza Strip at least 540 Palestinian children were killed, constituting 20 per cent of the civilian casualties. Thousands more children were injured and disabled. Those crimes were not just a one-time occurrence.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today's debate on children and armed conflict. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Leila Zerrougui for her briefing, and the others for their briefings, as well as the United Nations agencies supporting Palestinian children, including UNICEF and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). As the Security Council considers the situation of children in armed conflict around the world, we appeal to the Council not to forget Palestinian children, who are suffering extreme hardship, shocking acts ofaggression, oppression and gross human rights violations due to the Israeli occupation and the persistence of that conflict for nearly 70 years.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Despite the recent setback in the Council, we are hopeful and confident that this global support and solidarity, as well as the needed political and moral responsibility, will be forthcoming, extending the spirit and momentum of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, towards the attainment of the just, lasting and comprehensive peace we have so long been seeking.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“At the same time, we will persist in our appeals to all peace-loving countries and peoples to continue their principled solidarity and support in this effort to uphold international law and to realize the rights of the Palestinian people. These include self-determination in their independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and just solutions for all core issues, including the plight of the Palestine refugees, based on the relevant resolutions and international law.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“The focus now must be on implementing the law and ensuring responsibility for the gross human rights violations, breaches of humanitarian law war crimes that have been perpetrated, rather than on punitive measures meant to exact retribution for a commitment to international law. The focus must be on ending this illegitimate, belligerent, colonial Israeli occupation in all its manifestations and realizing the international consensus for a peaceful solution. We will thus continue to reject all of the irrational arguments against our peaceful, nonviolent, political, diplomatic and legal endeavours and will continue on this path for justice and peace.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“The Palestinian people and leadership have been more than patient, more than reasonable and more than steadfast. History will clearly attest to that resolve in the face of such grave injustice. Neither can we continue to accept being told to wait to seek accountability for Israeli violations against our people. This is based on our firm conviction that accountability and compelling respect for the law are crucial to deterring further crimes against our people, making the Israeli occupation too costly, hastening an end to this tragic conflict and realizing justice and peace.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“While recognizing the many serious threats and problems in our world, we must conclude by asking how the international community can allow the Security Council to remain paralysed, while the Palestinian- Israeli conflict continues to burn, inflaming tensions and further destabilizing the situation in an already volatile region? How long can the international community stand aside while this injustice continues and the Palestinian people continue to be denied their rights and freedoms, the same rights and freedoms so staunchly defended everywhere else around the world? We can no longer wait. After nearly seven decades of Al-Nakba and nearly five decades of occupation, we can no longer accept being told to wait for the fulfillment of our rights.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Sidiki Kaba, who welcomed the deposit by the State of Palestine of the instruments of accession to the Rome Statute and stressed that "Each ratification of the Rome Statute constitutes welcome progress towards its universality. I call on all members of the United Nations to join this permanent and independent system of international justice to fight against impunity and prevent the most serious crimes under international law." The State of Palestine responded in a positive way to that call, and I am proud to say that we will be the one hundred and twenty-third member State of the Rome Statute.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“And there is an occupied people seeking their liberty, rights and justice through peaceful, political and legal means despite the oppression and crimes they have been mercilessly subjected to for decades. It defies logic, and of course the law, to excuse and absolve the violator - Israel, the occupying Power - of any culpability, instead threatening and punishing those - the Palestinian people - who are merely seeking their human rights, foremost their right to be free and independent. We therefore express appreciation for the statements issued by Governments, intergovernmental organizations and human rights groups in support of Palestine's accessions and against Israeli reprisals. We are also grateful for the principled statement, on 7 January, by the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Mr.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“In that regard, it must be clearly stated: the recent accessions by the State of Palestine to international conventions and treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), are legal, peaceful steps that should be welcomed by the international community. There should be no doubt about Palestine's commitment to international law and peace. Palestine should not be punished for that proven commitment. To do so is wrong and perverse, and no rational, law-abiding and peaceful person or country can condone it. We are compelled to remind the international community that there is no symmetry or balance in this conflict. There is an occupier imposing and entrenching a nearly half-century-long military occupation in the most vicious, lethal and destructive ways.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“In addition to the brutalization and collective punishment of our people and the colonization of our land, Israel, the occupying Power, is again withholding Palestinian tax revenues, in a blatant act of reprisal and theft of Palestinian funds. This kind of retribution has been condemned by the international community before and should be once again. The international community should demand that Israel release our tax revenues, which are vital to the functioning of Government institutions, including for education, health, security, sanitation and social welfare services. Such vulgar and illegal behaviour by Israel should not be tolerated or excused, for it can only encourage its contempt for the law and impunity.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“However, it must be recognized that the massive scope and scale of this disaster, on both the human and the physical levels, would present a formidable challenge to even the strongest and most capable Government. We call on the international community to demand that Israel immediately end its blockade of the Gaza Strip and allow for unimpeded humanitarian access, the movement of persons into and out of Gaza, the entry of all necessary supplies, including construction materials and exports, and that it honour pledges to support reconstruction. Without that, it will be next to impossible to address urgent humanitarian needs, rebuild Gaza, ease the isolation and trauma of our people there or revive any semblance of an economy.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Massive flooding has further displaced civilians, in addition to the 110,000 people displaced following Israel's destruction of their homes and neighbourhoods. In the bitter cold, families continue to shelter in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools, in makeshift homes and even in the ruins and rubble of what remains of their homes, where they struggle to survive with minimal food, water, sanitation and other human necessities. Despite the obstruction and collective punishment caused by the Israeli blockade, the Palestinian Government of National Consensus, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, continues its efforts to advance reconstruction and tend to the needs of our people in Gaza.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Military raids and arrests and detentions continue, day and night, with more than 6,800 Palestinians, including children, women and elected officials, now imprisoned by Israel under dire conditions. Israel has yet to be held accountable for all those grave crimes. The humanitarian disaster wilfully and wantonly inflicted by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Gaza Strip last summer is worsening beyond comprehension. The illegal Israeli blockade, delays in reconstruction, a fuel and water crisis and fierce winter storms are compounding the unimaginable suffering of the Palestinian civilian population and further exposing the lasting impact of the crimes perpetrated by the Israeli occupying forces.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“The rising fury and despair in occupied East Jerusalem constitutes an extremely toxic situation that could erupt at any moment, including in the form of religious conflict. In the rest ofthe West Bank, Israel also continues its illegal settlement activities - doing the exact opposite of what is required to end this insidious occupation. Israel has totally undermined the two-State solution for peace by constructing settlements, expropriating land, building the wall, demolishing homes and displacing civilians, in grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and in flagrant contempt of the global demands to stop that illegal campaign. Settlers also continue to terrorize and torment Palestinian civilians and to wreak havoc and destruction.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“Every day we are witness to Israel's rapid settlement colonization, altering the City's demography and character and further surrounding and isolating it; heavy-handed raids and repression of the Palestinian civilian population; vicious "price tag" attacks by Israeli settlers, who continue to harass and assault Palestinians and seize Palestinian homes, with the full backing of the Government; and ongoing provocations and incitement by Israeli politicians and religious leaders, along with other Jewish extremists who continue to raid and defile holy sites, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and to attack worshippers and other civilians in violent rampages of hatred, discrimination and superiority.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“As we sit here in the Council Chamber, the situation is deteriorating and becoming more fragile and volatile by the day, while a peaceful solution remains elusive due to a lack of political will and the intransigence of Israel, which carries on with blatant impunity with zero accountability. In the Holy City of Jerusalem, tensions are raging as Israeli violations and crimes push the situation to a precipice.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“We are determined in our pursuit of this peaceful, political, diplomatic and legal path towards the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and their legitimate national aspirations and the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace. Those goals are shared by the international community. This principal organ of the United Nations should not be absolved of its responsibilities in that regard. How could we cease our appeals to the Security Council as long as the Israeli occupation of our land, and the endless crises and human suffering it causes, continues? How could we cease our calls for international support and action while our people continue to be denied their freedom and liberty - continue to be brutally oppressed - and this historic injustice persists?”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“The draft resolution also rightly set a deadline for an end to the Israeli occupation, an objective that cannot be logically rejected by anyone, and rightly called for an international conference as the starting point and framework for any negotiations forward, recognizing the failure of the negotiations for more than 20 years and also the need for clear responsibilities of major stakeholders in shepherding the effort. That initiative was intended to revitalize the international consensus and efforts for a just solution and to open doors for peace through such a new mechanism and clarity on the parameters of a peaceful solution and the end goals. Yet it was illogically treated as a confrontational and irrational effort and, regrettably, obstructed. In spite of that setback, we will continue to approach the Security Council.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“That includes, inter alia, the reaffirmation of parameters based on the relevant Security Council resolutions, the Madrid principles and the Arab Peace Initiative; the calls for the withdrawal ofIsrael from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and for bringing an end to the occupation in all manifestations, including the illegal settlement enterprise, for the achievement of the two-State solution on the basis of the pre-1967 borders; and the call for a just solution to the Palestine refugee question based on resolution 194 (III) and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“We regret that the Council as a whole was unable to rise to the occasion, even as the situation is acknowledged by all to be completely unsustainable and to constitute a threat to peace and security in the Middle East and globally. The draft resolution (S/2014/916) that was presented to the Security Council by Jordan on behalf of the Arab Group was in substance fully consistent with the demands made in previous resolutions. Those resolutions continue to be flagrantly violated by Israel, the occupying Power, and the Council continues to allow that to occur without consequence. While the draft resolution met with strong resistance, the reality is that the elements it contained are essential for achieving a just peace and have been unanimously supported by the international community for decades.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“I also extend the warm congratulations of the State of Palestine to the new members of the Security Council - the friendly countries of Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - as they assume their solemn responsibilities to uphold the Council's Charter duties, its resolutions and international law. We pledge to them, as to all the members of the Council, our full support and cooperation, and express confidence in their principled service on the Council. We return to the Security Council after its failure, once again, to uphold its duties vis-a-vis the Palestine question and to genuinely contribute to the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and forge a credible path for peace.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“On behalf of the State of Palestine, I congratulate the friendly country of Chile on its presidency of the Security Council and wish it every success in steering the important agenda of work. We are confident in its able leadership. We also welcome you, Mr. Heraldo Munoz, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, to preside over today's important debate. I also express our appreciation to the delegation of Chad for its honourable and capable stewardship of the Council in December. Allow me also to thank Assistant Secretary-General ad interim Toyberg-Frandzen for his briefing this morning.”
2015-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7360 (2015) · source
“We also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to the non-permanent members of the Security Council that will end their tenure tomorrow - Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, the Republic of Korea and Rwanda - and congratulate them on their efforts and service on the Council over the past two years.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“The time has come for the international community to act collectively and firmly to end the occupation that began in 1967 and to allow for the independence of the State of Palestine, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, and a just solution for the plight of the Palestine refugees on the basis of resolution 194 (III), and for the ultimate realization of justice, freedom and peace. The Palestinian people and the world can no longer wait. That message, despite the regrettable outcome today, is especially clear. In closing, I wish to thank you personally, Mr. President, and the friendly delegation of Chad for your speedy response to the call to convene this meeting and vote, and to reiterate our deepest gratitude to all Council members who righteously and honourably supported the draft resolution.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“It must be understood that the repeated requests for us to wait, and wait, and wait while our people are suffering, while our people are besieged, while our land is being colonized, and while the two-State solution is being destroyed and the prospects for peace are evaporating, are not viable under these circumstances and unsustainable. Those eager to save the two-State solution must act and cannot continue to make excuses for Israel and to permit, and thus be complicit in, its immoral and illegal behaviour. The Security Council must act. We will therefore continue to call on the Council to uphold its Charter duties and will spare no effort in this regard in the coming year.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“And it has been and continues to be reaffirmed in the motions by numerous European parliaments calling for recognition of the State of Palestine and in the fact that 135 countries already recognize our State, with the most recent recognition affirmed by Sweden, which we salute from this Chamber. This message continues to be conveyed loudly by civil society the world over, with massive displays of support for the just cause of Palestine and the rights of the Palestinian people and the calls for a just and lasting solution. It is thus most regrettable that the Security Council remains paralysed and unable to act to uphold its own responsibilities in this regard, with all of the implications this has for peace and security in the Middle East and beyond.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“The message is clear worldwide: it is high time to end this abhorrent Israeli occupation and the impunity that has brought our people so much suffering and caused so many crises, sown so much instability and anger throughout our region, and that continues to seriously undermine regional and global peace and security. This message has been strongly conveyed in the numerous resolutions adopted once again this year by the General Assembly on all aspects of the question of Palestine. It has also been strongly reaffirmed at the recent Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention convened by the depositary, Switzerland.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“Accordingly, we reiterate in this Council Chamber the absolute imperative to hold Israel, the occupying Power, accountable for its violations of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, and its violations of United Nations resolutions. Such contempt must not continue to be excused or tolerated. There can be no excuse for denial of the right to self- determination of another people, as loudly reaffirmed in the General Assembly this month with the vote on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination receiving the overwhelming support of 181 States members of the Assembly.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“Why are we facing another Security Council failure as the situation unravels and international peace and security are further threatened? Considering the unsustainable and precarious situation that now prevails and the need to act responsibly on behalf of our people to address their needs and national aspirations, the Palestinian leadership must now consider its next steps. They will meet tomorrow and decide on those next steps. We are grateful for the support of all brotherly and friendly countries in support of the just cause of Palestine and in support of this continuing journey to fulfil the inalienable human rights of our people and make peace a reality, despite the many challenges and obstacles.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“So we must ask the Council: why is it so difficult for the Security Council to act on this global consensus and demand an end to illegal Israeli actions and an end to the Israeli occupation - which the Council has called for repeatedly, from resolution 242 (1967) on - and the implementation of the two-State solution in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principles and the Arab Peace Initiative? Why have the efforts of the Arab Group, with the full support of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and all other friends worldwide, to legislate this consensus through the Security Council as a contribution towards putting an end to this conflict through peaceful, political, diplomatic, civilized and non-violent means, been repeatedly blocked?”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“In contrast to the result of today's voting, it is clear that both inside and outside of the Security Council there is a global consensus on the two-State solution on the pre-1967 borders and on the fact that the annexation of East Jerusalem is illegal and not accepted by any single country. There is also a global consensus on the illegality of Israeli settlement activities in all their manifestations and the illegality of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and the need for their immediate end. And there is clearly a global consensus on the legitimacy of the national aspirations and rights of the Palestinian people and the responsibility of the international community in helping to bring them to fulfilment.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“Yet the result of today's voting shows that the Security Council as a whole is clearly not ready and willing to shoulder its responsibilities in a way that would allow for the adoption of a comprehensive resolution and allow us to open the doors for peace and for a just and lasting solution based on international law. It also shows that the Security Council is out of step with the overwhelming global consensus and the calls for an end to the Israeli occupation, an end to this prolonged conflict, and the achievement of the long- overdue the independence of the Palestinian people in their own State.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“In clear terms, firmly rooted in the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, this draft resolution reaffirmed the well-known parameters for a just and lasting solution and set forth a clear timeline for negotiating a final peace agreement, with strong support by major stakeholders, including the concept of an international conference, as well as a timeline for bringing the illegitimate Israeli occupation to a complete end and for achieving the independence of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the basis of the pre-1967 borders, living side by side with Israel in peace and security, and just solutions for all core issues, including the plight of the Palestine refugees.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“We deeply regret, however, that the Council was unable to adopt the draft resolution, despite four months of efforts, patience and flexibility and our serious attempts to engage, and despite the fact that the draft reflected the long-standing international consensus on a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“We express special gratitude to the States members of the Arab Group for all of their support, and thank Jordan for its efforts on behalf of the Group, in its capacity as the Arab representative on the Security Council, including its submission and sponsorship of the draft resolution and its call for the vote. We also thank France for its serious efforts and responsible engagement throughout the process and for its support. I also wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Jean Asselborn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, for his presence at today's meeting and his country's support.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“The initiative was meant to mobilize the Security Council to act to defuse the volatile situation and reaffirm the basis for justly resolving the conflict, redressing that historic injustice and providing a forward political horizon that could restore hope to our people that the 47-year Israeli military occupation of their land and their oppression would soon be ended by the delineation of a time frame to that purpose, and that justice, freedom and peace were within reach. We sincerely thank all of the countries that took a principled stand and voted in favour of draft resolution S/2014/9l6. We thank Argentina, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Luxembourg and the Russian Federation, as well as all of the friendly countries that supported us throughout the long process.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“This was the year that has brought us to this day - a year that has deepened the decades-long suffering and injustice borne by the Palestinian people and that has taken us farther and farther away from the realization of the just, lasting and comprehensive peace we have long sought on the basis of international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions. It was in that grave context that the Palestinian Government, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas, undertook in early September the initiative that has now been brought before the Council.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“All of this was perpetrated wantonly and willfully by Israel, creating widespread devastation, human trauma and a massive humanitarian disaster. Gross human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law - war crimes - were undoubtedly committed by Israel, the occupying Power. And in the diaspora, the millions of Palestine refugees who remain exiled from their homeland continue to endure instability and vulnerability due to crises and conflicts in the region that have inflicted further displacement and loss on them, with the tragedy in Syria, in particular, engulfing the lives and futures of so many Palestinians.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“The Israeli occupying forces launched tens of thousands of missiles, bombs, artillery shells and live ammunition against the defenseless Palestinian civilian population in an inhumane, barbaric and criminal onslaught that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, the majority of whom were civilians, including children and women; injured and maimed more than 11,000 people; displaced hundreds of thousands; terrorized the entire population; and caused the vast destruction of homes, vital civilian infrastructure and hospitals and schools, including more than 100 United Nations facilities, the majority of which were United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East schools, as well as mosques and churches, agricultural properties and industries.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“As the Security Council has looked on this year, our people under Israeli occupation have endured the further theft and colonization of their land, the demolition of their homes, daily military raids, the arrest and detention ofthousands of civilians, including children, rampant settler terrorism, constant affronts to their human dignity, repeated incursions at our holiest sites in occupied East Jerusalem, in particular, and extreme provocations and incitement, raising tensions to an all-time high and threatening to ignite a religious war and completely destabilize the situation on the ground. The brutalization of the Palestinian people reached a new apex of savagery with the Israeli military aggression waged against the besieged and blockaded Gaza Strip in July and August.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“It has been a year that has witnessed the breakdown of yet another political process, despite the genuine efforts of the United States, with the full support of the League of Arab States and all other major stakeholders and the good faith efforts and cooperation of Palestine, and the deepening of another political impasse due to brazen Israeli intransigence, creating a totally unsustainable situation, as roundly acknowledged by all. Despite all of that, the Security Council has once again failed to uphold its Charter duties to address those crises and to meaningfully contribute to a peaceful and lasting solution in accordance with its own resolutions.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source