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Mansour

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first: 2006-03-30
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“We are grateful for his leadership of the United Nations delegation to the Cairo International Conference on Palestine, "Reconstructing Gaza", and for his recent visit to the State of Palestine, including to the Gaza Strip, where he witnessed first-hand the massive destruction and devastation wrought by the Israeli military aggression in July and August and the suffering that continues in the absence of real recovery, reconstruction and sustainable solutions to core issues of this conflict. We have long appealed for the Security Council members to visit Palestine to see, unfiltered, these realities and the grave injustice being endured by the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“I congratulate the friendly country of Argentina on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month, and express our appreciation, Madam, for your able leadership of the Council's efforts to address the many critical issues on its agenda at this time. I also express our appreciation to Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his important briefing and deep gratitude for his dedicated peace efforts.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“We appeal once again to the international community to lend all support possible to the long-running efforts to achieve a just, lasting and peaceful settlement and the long- overdue realization by the Palestinian people of their rights and national aspirations, including to freedom and independence in their State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital. In conclusion, I reiterate my call for the adoption of a resolution by the Security Council condemning this Israeli aggression against the State of Palestine so as to stop this aggression immediately, lift the blockade against the Gaza Strip, and to provide the Palestinian people with international protection.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Moreover, it must exert efforts to ensure that the ceasefire is sustainable, preventing the recurrence of such crises and addressing the core issues, including the need to end the Israeli blockade of Gaza and ensure the sustained movement of persons and goods, the need to ensure protection for the Palestinian people, and the need for a political horizon forward. Despite all the odds and the immeasurable loss and grief, the Palestinian people hold firm to their conviction in the United Nations and to the promises and commitment to bring an end to their oppression and achieve justice. We reaffirm that we continue to strive for a peaceful political solution to this conflict, to which there is no military solution.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“The Council must live up to the demands of the Charter, as well as to the expectations of the international community, Where the injustices being endured by the Palestinian people under this depraved Israeli occupation have again rallied millions of people - of every race, colour and creed - in the streets of capitals all over the world demanding an end to the Israeli aggression, colonization and collective punishment in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, and demanding accountability for Israeli war crimes, including at the International Criminal Court. The Council must play its rightful role and contribute to the urgent efforts to secure a ceasefire.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“We reiterate that it is no coincidence that this latest aggression was launched amid increased international pressure on Israel in the peace process; international acceptance of the Palestinian unity Government; the intensifying world condemnation of the settlements; settler terror; provocations in East Jerusalem; the Gaza blockade; the crisis of Palestinian prisoners and detainees; Israel's destruction of the two-State solution; and the growing global calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“We have never once heard the Israeli representative mention before the Council the word "occupation", conveniently ignoring the fact that Israel is an occupier yet somehow claiming the right to defend itself from the people it is viciously occupying and repressing - an Israeli-fabricated right certainly not ordained under international law, as opposed to the legitimate right to resist foreign occupation and the right to self- determination.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“That is a fact verified by the many declarations by Israel's Prime Minister and other Government officials and by settler leaders and terror gangs, regarding the price they will make the Palestinians pay for daring to demand their rights, and it is a fact repeatedly proven by the violent, racist and illegal actions of the occupying Power. Moreover, we reject the cynical Israeli arguments labelling an entire people as terrorists. Our children, women and men are not terrorists and no family would allow their loved ones to be used as human shields. The reality is that they have been held captive by Israel in an open prison called Gaza, which remains under Israeli occupation and control, regardless of the false Israeli narrative regarding the 2005 redeployment.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Even as efforts in the region to secure a ceasefire continue, the Security Council still has a responsibility to act to stop the slaughter of innocent men, women and children. Israeli impunity must be halted and the pretexts for its crimes rejected. The world can no longer deny that such crimes are being deliberately planned and carried out to exact maximum loss and punishment against an occupied people, whether via military attacks and reprisals, colonization of the land, imprisonment of thousands, blockade or humiliation of the people and leadership.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Without decisive action, the Council's resolutions and statements ring hollow as defenceless civilians find no relief from the murderous Israeli war machine. In Shujaiya and all of Gaza City, in Khan Younis, Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, Nuseirat, Beit Lahiya, Bureij, Rafah, Deir Al-Balah and everywhere in Gaza, the Palestinian people are suffering gravely. The ability to cope with the humanitarian fallout is on the brink of collapse under the impact of the Israeli aggression and eight- year blockade. As the obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of the civilians under its occupation is gravely breached by Israel, we reiterate our appeal to the Security Council to uphold its duty to maintain international peace and security, without conditions, without exceptions and without delay.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“While Council members may be fatigued by our repeated lists, we must bear witness to the despair of our people and insist on their dignity. Those Palestinian children, whose lives have been so cruelly taken by the occupying Power, are not just figures; they had names, dreams and mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandparents and friends, who are grieving their deaths and devastated by the massive loss of human life for which there can be no justification and no consolation. On behalf of the Palestinian people, we ask: What is the international community doing to stop the bloodletting, to stop Israel's atrocities? What is the Security Council doing to uphold its commitment to protect civilians in armed conflict and uphold the law and the Charter?”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“We are wearing black ribbons today to honour all of our children, women, men and all Palestinians civilians killed in the genocide by Israel against our people in the Gaza Strip. Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jami, age 5; Haifa Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jami, age 9; Shahinaz Walid Muhammad Abu Jami, age 1; Rayan Tayseer Abu Jami, age 8; Rozan Abu Jami, age 14; Ahmad Ayman Mahrous Siyam, age 17; Mustafa Nabil Mahrous Siyam, age 12; Ghayda Nabil Mahrous Siyam, age 8; Dalal Nabil Mahrous Siyam, 8 months; Mayar Nayif Al-Yaziji, age 2; Anas Al-Yaziji, age 5; Ibrahim Ammar, age 13; Assem Ammar, age 4; Iman Ammar, age 9; Saji Hasan Al-Hallaq, age 4; Kinan Al-Hallaq, age 6; Mohammed Al-Hallaq, age 2; Shadi Isleem, age 15; Alaa Isleem, age 11; Fadi Isleem, age 10; Samia Al-Sheikh Khalil, age 3; Hiba Khalil, age 13; Khalil Al-Hayyeh, age 7; Umama Al-Hayyeh, age 9; Dima Isleem, age 2; Mohamad Ayyad, age 2; Rahaf Abu Jumaa, age 4; Tala Al-Attawi, age 7; Dina Hamada, age 15; Omar Hamouda, age 10; Ghada Ayyad, age 9; Marah Al-Jammal, age 11; Marwa Al-Sirsawi, age 3; Ahmad Ismail Abu Musallam, age 10; Wala Abu Musallam, age 12; Muhammad Abu Musallam, age 15; Rahaf Khalil Al-Jbour, age 4; Yassin Al-Humaidi, age 4; Mohammad Shadi Natiz, age 15; Mohammed Salim Natiz, age 4; Siham Mousa Abu Jarad, age 15; Ahlam Na'im Abu Jarad, age 13; Haniyeh Abdelrahman Abu Jarad, age 3; Samih Na'im Abu Jarad, 12 months old.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“When hospital floors are drowning in the blood of innocents, corridors are filled with the deafening screams of pain of the wounded and the cries of grief and anguish for loved ones killed, and doctors, with barely any supplies and deprived of sleep and sustenance struggle courageously to save human lives, despite themselves being targeted for attack by the Israeli war machine, we know that the international community has failed - failed in its commitment to protect civilians in armed conflict, failed to enforce the rule of law and failed to uphold its promise to humankind. I am therefore again compelled to at least read the names of our many innocent children killed by the Israeli occupying forces in the past days and to honour their memories.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“We are haunted by the images of babies, boys, girls, women and men murdered by the Israeli occupying forces in their homes, in the streets and in refugee camps; by the images of the thousands of wounded people, their lives forever marred; and by the sight of thousands of Palestinian families again dispossessed and fleeing for safety from the Israeli assaults in this endless Nakba against our people. Let me just show Council members some of the pictures of the victims. These are from Shujaiya. These are the human faces of our victims and these are samples of those who suffer the most and who are killed in the greatest numbers - the children. We are not numbers. We are human beings.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“For instance, in a period of just two hours following my letter to the Security Council yesterday, another 23 Palestinians were killed, their names and stories not yet included in the vast documentation of the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, which we will continue to insist be officially recorded by the United Nations in our tireless pursuit of justice for the victims and our nation. The death toll now stands at more than 600 Palestinians killed and more than 3,500 people injured.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“In one day alone, Sunday, 20 July, 95 Palestinians were brutally killed, with at least 72 people, including 17 children, 14 women and 4 elderly persons, massacred in Shujaiya by the occupying forces, who left the streets of the area littered with bodies and with many victims trapped under the rubble of homes, thereby ensuring a rising death toll. Overwhelmed paramedics there declared, "There are no injured in Shujaiya, only dead." It is nearly impossible to keep up with the pace of killing and injury caused by the occupying Power with all means ofheavy weaponry against a defenceless civilian population.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“A family of 26 people in Khan Younis, the Al-Jami family; a family of 8 people in northern Gaza, the Abu Jarad family; a family of 10 people in Shujaiya, the Ayyad family; a family of 7 people in Shujaiya, the Al-Hallaq family; a family of 6 people in Shujaiya, the Al-Sakafi family; a family of5 people, also in Shujaiya, the Sleem family; a family of 4 people in Shujaiya, the Al-Hayyeh family; and a family of4 people in northern Gaza, the Al-Zuweidi family, were among the many victims of Israel's heinous attacks injust the past three days, with children and women constituting the majority of the dead. The casualties are mounting with every passing minute.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“We urgently appeal for efforts to address the immense humanitarian needs of the Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including through donor support to UNRWA emergency appeals. With no regard for human life, Israel, the occupying Power, continues to slaughter entire families.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Regrettably, in spite of all of those regional and international efforts, hundreds more Palestinian civilians have been killed, thousands have been injured and tens of thousands have been displaced by the Israeli military aggression in Gaza since we last appeared before the Security Council last Friday (see S/PV.7220). Israeli bombardment - including missile airstrikes, bombs and artillery shelling by air, land and sea in densely populated civilian areas - has also resulted in the destruction of more than 1,000 homes and damage to more than 18,000 others. Fear and panic have gripped the population, leading to the displacement of more than 100,000 people, who are now sheltering in UNRWA schools, already double the number of Palestinians who sought refuge in the Agency's schools in the Israeli war on Gaza of 2008 to 2009.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Today, we also recognize the efforts on the ground of United Nations Special Coordinator Robert Serry, including with regard to the calls for a humanitarian pause, as well as the valiant efforts of United Nations agencies on the ground, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), under the leadership of Commissioner-General Pierre Kreihenbiihl, and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, under the leadership of Under-Secretary- General Valerie Amos, as well as other United Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, that are providing Vital emergency assistance to the Palestinian people at this time of crisis.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“Ithank you, Mr. President, for your skilled stewardship of the Security Council this month and for the efforts to address the crisis being faced by the Palestinian people, particularly due to the Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and convey our deep gratitude to him for undertaking an emergency mission to the region in support of the regional and international efforts to secure an urgent ceasefire based on the Egyptian initiative and with the active engagement of President Mahmoud Abbas and other concerned parties. I also welcome Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg Asselborn, who is with us today to attend this very important meeting.”
2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source
“(spoke in Arabic) We return to the Security Council once again after it failed to respond to the aggression against our people. From this Chamber, we salute the Palestinian people for their suffering and magnificent fortitude and bow before their martyrs who have fallen as a result of Israel's barbaric act of aggression that has spared no civilian woman, man or child in the 1.8 million people living in Gaza. They are right to be angry at the Security Council, which has not stopped that act of aggression. They are right to be angry that the world watches as they suffer and lose their children and members of their families. That aggression has not yet stopped. However, people across the world are proud of the Palestinian people as they struggle and spare no effort to attain their freedom and put an end to that barbaric act of aggression.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Lastly, before concluding, I also wish to make an appeal to the international community to support the efforts to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza in order to alleviate the grave suffering and devastation they are enduring. In that regard, we appeal for urgent donor support to the emergency appeal for Gaza launched by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East on 14 July, recognizing the vital role being played by the Agency, along with other United Nations agencies and international organizations on the ground, to address the crisis and meet the needs of the population. Finally, allow to me to say just a few words in Arabic to our people in the Gaza Strip.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“We call on the Security Council to adopt a resolution that condemns the Israeli military aggression against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip, calls for its immediate cessation and the lifting of the Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip, and for protection of the Palestinian people, since Israel, the occupying Power, has clearly abrogated its legal obligations to do so. In that regard, we draw attention to the fact that such a resolution and the necessary action to implement it has the full endorsement of the Group of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement, which constitutes the majority of the United Nations membership.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“We call on the Security Council once again to uphold its duties under the Charter and to act forthwith to implement its resolutions regarding the Palestinian- Israeli conflict and on the protection of civilians in armed conflict and children in armed conflict. Should the Security Council fail to respond to our appeals to uphold the law to end those crimes and violations against our people and ensure their protection, and should our peaceful, diplomatic and political efforts in that regard fail, we will have no recourse but to turn to the judicial bodies of the United Nations and the international system. We have a duty to our people to leave no stone unturned as we strive to end the Israeli occupation, oppression and colonial domination and attain our inalienable rights.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“We join our grieving people in praying for their souls and asking for strength and resilience for their mourning families and nation. The names of many of the dead are still unknown as emergency personnel sift through the rubble and as Israel continues its attacks. That is the unjust reality in which the Palestinian people are struggling to survive and suffering gravely under the Israeli occupation, as their right to reject and resist that immoral, inhumane and illegitimate occupation - and their legitimate aspirations to realizing their rights and freedom - continue to be shamefully perverted by the occupying Power. That reality is worsened by the repeated appeasement of Israel and the failure of the international community to hold it accountable and to impose the rule of law.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Yasmin Al-Astal, aged 4, Osama Al-Astal, aged 6, and Raqiyya Al-Astal, aged 70 - all members of the same family - were killed in an air strike at a mosque. Ibrahim Ramadan Abu Daqqa, aged 10, his brother Amro Ramadan Abu Daqqa, aged 25, and their sister Madeline Abu Daqqa, aged 27, a pregnant mother of three, and their elderly grandmother, Khadra Abu Daqqa, Fulla Shuhaibar, aged 9, brothers Jihad Issam Shuhaibar, aged 10, and Wasim Issam Shuaibar, aged 7, Ahmad Ismail Abu Musaflam, aged 14, his sister Alaa, aged 13, and brother Muhammad, aged 15, Rahaf khalil Al-Jbour, aged 4, Yassin Al-Humaidi, aged 4, Mohammad Shadi Natiz, aged 15, and Mohammed Salim Natiz, aged 4, and Fares Al-Mahmoum, 5 months old, also died.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“The dead include Nahed Nai'im AI- Batsh, aged 41, Bahaa Majed Al-Batsh, aged 28, Qusai Issam Al-Batsh, aged 12, Mohammed Issam Al-Batsh, aged 17, Ahmed Nu'man Al-Batsh, aged 27, Yehya Ala Al-Batsh, aged 18, Jalal Majed Al-Batsh, aged 26, Mahmoud Majed Al-Batsh, aged 22, Marwa Majed Al-Batsh, aged 25, Majed Subhi Al-Batsh, Khaled Majed Al-Batsh, aged 20, Ibrahim Majed Al-Batsh, aged 18, Manar Majed AI-Batsh, aged 13, Amal Hasan Al-Batsh, aged 49, Anas Alaa Al-Batsh, aged 10, Qusai Alaa Al-Batsh, aged 20, Zakariya Alaa Al-Batsh and Aziza Youssef Al-Batsh, aged 59. Ismail Baker, aged 9, Ahmed Baker, aged 10, Mohammed Baker, aged 10, and Zakariya Baker, aged 10, were murdered by the occupying forces in broad daylight as they were playing on the beach in Gaza City, in the incident that was referred to by Mr. Feltman.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Abdullah Abu Ghazl, aged 4, Yasmeen Al-Mutaweq, aged 4, Shand Helmi AI-Qarnawi, aged 5, Ghalia Deeb Ghannam, aged 7, Nour Marwan Al-Naj di, aged 10, Saber Sukkar, aged 80, and Ola Washahi, aged 31, and Suha Abu Saada, aged 47, both of whom suffered from severe mental and physical handicaps, were killed in an airstrike on a disabled persons centre. Eighteen members of the Al-Batsh family, including six children and three women, one of them pregnant, were massacred and 16 other civilians were wounded by the Israeli occupying forces in a military airstrike that was deliberately launched on their home and which Israel declared was targeting Tayseer Al-Batsh, a police chief in Gaza.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“I am compelled to share the names of the some of the children, families and elderly and disabled persons killed by Israel's onslaught since our last appeal to the Council (see S/PV.7214), the majority of whom were killed in Israeli airstrikes on their homes. All the victims, including our children and women, have names. They are not only numbers that the Israeli occupying army slaughters as it wishes. The names are as follows. Mahmoud AI-Haj, Tariq Saad Al-Haj, Saad Mahmoud Al-Haj, Omar Al-Haj, Najla Mahmoud Al-Haj, Amina Al-Haj, all of the same family, were obliterated.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“The Palestinian death toll now stands at more than 274 people, plus the four children, making a total of 278 people killed and more than 2,065 people injured. The overwhelming majority of those killed and injured are civilians, including 66 children and, as we heard from Mr. Feltman, 48 women and 17 elderly persons. More than 47,000 people have been displaced, the majority of whom are Palestine refugees. Those disturbing facts are corroborated by reports from the United Nations agencies on the ground, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The images of the Palestinian children killed by the Israeli occupying forces sear our hearts and the conscience of the world.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“It is fact. Before the eyes of the world, Israel wages war against a defenceless civilian population, tramples their human rights, commits grave breaches of international humanitarian law and destroys the pillars of the international system. At the same time, it forces a repugnant double standard on the international community through its cynical pretexts, including by destroying the credibility of the Security Council itself, which continues to stand aside as Israel flagrantly violates its resolutions without consequences. Israel's actions belie its words. The facts speak much louder than the disdainful words and immoral lectures made repeatedly before the Council by the Israeli representative while his Government and army kill and maim innocent children, women and men.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Moreover, it is an obvious repeat of the numerous crises fabricated by Israel over the years to evade all efforts to advance a peaceful political solution to the conflict and to justly address its root causes, namely, Israel's denial and violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people and its 47-year illegal military occupation and colonization of Palestinian land. It is not by coincidence that such deliberate destabilization of the situation on the ground diverts international attention from Israel's obstruction of peace efforts, particularly through its malicious settlement campaign throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. War crimes, crimes against humanity, State terrorism and systematic human rights violations are being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. That is not simply a Palestinian narrative.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Among the goals of that military campaign are the destruction of Palestinian unity and the collapse of the national consensus Government. The statements made by Israeli officials, from the Prime Minister down, as well as the enumeration ofthe specific aims of the aggression, are clear evidence of that. We recall that the Israeli Government cynically used the killing of three Israeli settlers to launch the aggression - a crime of which there has not been an independent and transparent investigation but which Israel has insanely used as the basis for its barbaric attacks and because of which officials, settlers and extremists continue to incite more terror and cause harm to our people.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“At the direct command ofthe highest levels ofthe Israeli Government and army, the occupying forces are killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, destroying homes and infrastructure and displacing thousands of families. Yet another disaster is being inflicted on Gaza. It is traumatizing and terrorizing the entire population, worsening the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's repeated aggressions and illegal eight-year blockade and sowing widespread distress, resentment and rage among our people. That savage Israeli aggression cannot be justified by any means. It is not self-defence but a vengeful military aggression, intentionally planned and perpetrated by the occupying Power against the civilian population under its occupation.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Despite the regional and international efforts to bring an end to the violence and bloodshed, as well as the siege, isolation and punishment of our people, and the broad consensus that there is no military solution to this crisis or to the conflict in its entirety, Israel, the occupying Power, has intensified its military operations with the full intention and knowledge that the number of civilian casualties will mount. In less than 24 hours, the Israeli assault has killed more than 40 Palestinians, including many children. While President Abbas has been continuously engaged in efforts to secure a comprehensive ceasefire, including those of Egypt and Turkey, among other concerned countries in the region and beyond, Israel has instead chosen to continue waging war on our people.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“We have called for this emergency meeting of the Security Council due to the ongoing crisis faced by the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. With every moment that passes, the life of another Palestinian child, mother or father is cruelly taken by the Israeli occupying forces in their murderous rampage of airstrikes and artillery bombardment against civilian areas, and now a massive ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, threatening the safety and survival of the entire Palestinian civilian population. As we were driving to this meeting, four more children were killed. I have their names and their ages, which range from 2 to 13 years: Rizeq Al-Hayek, aged 2, Sarah Bustan, aged 13, Imad Ilwan, aged 7, and Qasem Ilwan, aged 4.”
2014-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7220 (2014) · source
“Moreover, it is high time that Israel, the occupying Power, be held accountable for its countless human rights violations and war crimes, including the killing of Palestinian civilians, the wanton destruction of Palestinian property and the malicious colonization of Palestinian land. We call on the Security Council to act now to stop the bleeding in occupied Palestine, including the latest Israeli war on Gaza, and to revive our dying hope in the prospects for an and to the occupation and the tragic conflict, the achievement of peace and the realization of the aspirations of Palestinians for their freedom, rights and justice, which have too long been denied.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“The Palestinian people, whose resilience and steadfastness we honour and praise, look to the Security Council at this critical moment to uphold its resolutions and abiding principles first and foremost to save lives and to safeguard the prospects for a just and peaceful settlement of the conflict on the basis of the two- State solution and the pre-l967 borders, on which the international community is united but which has been so gravely undermined by Israel. A firm message must be sent by the Council to Israel to immediately cease its aggression against the Palestinian people and to abide by its obligations under international law.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“Israel has clearly violated and abdicated its responsibility as an occupying Power to ensure the safety and well-being of the civilian population under its occupation. The international community, in line with its legal obligations - and I stress the obligations of the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention - must therefore ensure the protection of our people until the end of the military occupation. In that regard, I wish to inform the Council that President Abbas has officially conveyed to Switzerland, the depository, a request to convene the high contracting parties to consider measures to uphold their obligations, under common article 1 and article 146, on penal sanctions for grave breaches, and to enforce the Convention in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“The Security Council cannot remain paralysed and marginalized as Israeli war crimes continue against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip and in the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and a new cycle of violence consumes everything in its path. The Council must shoulder its responsibilities. It must act to protect civilian lives, de-escalate the current crisis and salvage the prospects for peace and security in our troubled region. If it fails to do so, it will further diminish its own credibility and will be complicit in allowing innocent children, women and men to die and the situation to further destabilize, with far-reaching consequences. We call in particular for the protection of the Palestinian people.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“We also recall that Israel has publicly declared its opposition to the Palestinian national unity Government and has used every baseless pretext to provoke and undermine the Palestinian Government with the aim of forcing its collapse, including through the latest military aggression. We condemn such cynical tactics, provocations and illegal behaviour and call on the international community also to condemn it. There can be no justification for the killing of innocent civilians, no matter where, when or by whom. All pretexts suggesting otherwise must be rejected. Instead, all efforts must be exerted to bring a halt to the violence and terror that are being perpetrated against civilians, including through measures to uphold and to enforce respect for international law.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“We also reject the claims of self-defence by Israel, while, despite the prohibition under international law, it deliberately carries out reprisals and collective punishment against the Palestinian people in declared retaliation and revenge, directly called for by the Israeli Prime Minister himself, for the killing of three Israeli settlers, which the Palestinian leadership has clearly condemned. We recall that Israel abruptly suspended the peace negotiations in April in response to the reconciliation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Hamas - a legitimate and necessary step long called for by our people, as well as by the international community.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“No act in self-defence can justifty the killing of children or the oppression of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories. I should like to mention just a few of the Palestinian children who have been martyred by the occupation: Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16; Ghanim Abdelgafoor, 1; Mohammed Malaki, 2; Mohammed Khalaf Al-Nouassrah, 4; Nidal Khalef Al-Nouassrah, 5; Siraj Abdel-al, 8; Bassim Qawareh, 10; Mohammed Ashour, 13; Hussein Qawareh, 14; and the child Abdullah Abughazel, 4, who died today. (spoke in English) We reject the audacious claims by Israel that the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza is being used as a so-called human shield, while it knowingly and intentionally strikes at densely populated civilian areas.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“(spoke in Arabic) From this forum, I should like to salute the people of Gaza and to reiterate that the Israeli aggression will not alter the determination of our people, which is stronger than any measures of collective punishment or reppression by the occupying authority against the Palestinian people, in particular against the 1.7 million citizens of our beloved Gaza. We recall the memory of our martyrs killed as a result of the current aggression. On behalf of the entire Palestinian people, the Palestinian Authority and others around the world who love peace and justice, we honour their memory, which will remain with us in heart and spirit. We will not forget our beloved children who have been the victims of settler acts and the Israeli occupying authorities.”
2014-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7214 (2014) · source
“Children, who in Gaza constitute over half of the population, are suffering disproportionately and, similar to Israel's military savagery of December 2008 to January 2009 and November 2012, are among the many victims. Deepening the trauma, families also continue to bear multiple tragedies, with some families being decimated by Israeli attacks. Among the family of eight people murdered today were five children. We bear witness to their suffering and recall here some of the many lives that have been lost to this insane, inhumane Israeli brutality.”
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“Moreover, settler violence, terrorism and incitement against Palestinian civilians, especially children and farmers, and acts of destruction against Palestinian homes, orchards and religious sites continue unabated under the protection of occupying forces, which the Israeli Government illegally transferred to the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. At this moment, the Palestinian death toll stands at more than 80 people 4 in fact, it could be above 90. Today, an entire family of eight was decimated as a result of the heinous attacks and aggression by the Israeli occupying forces against our people in Gaza. Hundreds more civilians have been wounded by Israeli airstrikes, tank shelling, live ammunition, rubber bullets, stun grenades, tear gas canisters and beatings. Many are in critical condition.”
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“In the West Bank, Israeli military raids continue daily in Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, and casualties are continued to be caused by the excessive, lethal force of the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians, including peaceful demonstrators. Homes have been demolished. Since the start of the recent crisis, on 12 June, more than 850 Palestinians have been arrested or detained, bringing the total number of Palestinians captive in Israeli jails to more than 6,000, including children, women and elected officials.”
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“For days, Israel has persisted with its relentless attacks, launching hundreds of airstrikes and artillery bombardment against civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, terrorizing our people, killing dozens of civilians and injuring hundreds. The critical humanitarian situation in Gaza, long-suffering under Israel's occupation and blockade, is rapidly deteriorating and, in this holy month of Ramadan, life there has come to a standstill, with fear and panic widespread. As the majority of the civilians in Gaza are refugees, and camps continue to be among the targets of Israeli military attacks, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has declared an emergency in Gaza.”
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“In the past few weeks, I have conveyed many formal letters to the Council drawing urgent attention to this crisis, with barely any reaction, with the exception of the press statement of 2 July regarding the heinous killing and burning of the Palestinian youth Mohammed Abu Khdeir by Israeli settler terrorists in occupied East Jerusalem. In those letters, I have detailed the illegal actions being committed by Israel in grave violation of international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, human rights law and international criminal law, namely, the provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. There is no doubt that the occupying Power is systematically committing human rights violations, war crimes and State terror.”
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