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Mansour

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“The Palestinian Authority expresses its appreciation for this Libyan effort and the good-will intentions to provide aid to our people by such extraordinary means, necessitated by the most unusual, 08-63224 unacceptable and indeed deplorable circumstances in which our people find themselves. We have come before the Security Council on several occasions to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's illegal punitive measures, and we have repeatedly called upon the Council to shoulder its responsibilities under the United Nations Charter and act to bring an end to the inhuman siege and to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under international law, including humanitarian and human rights law.”
2008-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6030 (2008) · source
“In that regard, we regret that the Libyan ship Al-Marwa, which was attempting to deliver desperately needed humanitarian supplies to the population, was prevented from doing so by the occupying Power. This effort was undertaken following the recent call on the Arab countries by the League of Arab States Council of Ministers to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people under occupation, particularly in the Gaza Strip, in order to alleviate their suffering and impoverishment resulting from the severe Israeli restrictions on the movement of persons and goods.”
2008-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6030 (2008) · source
“The situation in the whole of the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem; remains extremely critical due to Israel's continuing violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people and its continuing colonization of Palestinian land by unlawful means and measures. Today, however, I wish to specifically address the crisis that is prevailing in the Gaza Strip, where more than 1.5 million Palestinians - including children, women, the elderly, and ill and disabled persons - are facing miserable socio- economic conditions, a dire humanitarian crisis and the virtual collapse of their society and all coping mechanisms as a result of Israel's total siege and closure of the area, which have obstructed even humanitarian aid from reaching the Palestinian civilian population.”
2008-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6030 (2008) · source
“I thank you, Sir, for convening this urgent meeting to address the critical situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly the grave humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip; as a result of the continued siege being imposed by Israel, the occupying Power. Before proceeding, allow me to congratulate you and your country Croatia upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month, and to also take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation to Costa Rica for its most able and wise leadership of the Council last month. At this time, I wish also to convey our appreciation to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for its call for today's meeting to address the serious issues before us.”
2008-12-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6030 (2008) · source
“The principle of gender equality under the law was thereby enshrined and women were given a position at the forefront of the social and political modernization of the country. This has secured the position of Tunisian women in political life, making them an essential component of society and an effective, genuine agent of progress and stability.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“This is, of course, a blueprint for a civilized society where women are a guarantee of modernity, a vehicle for development, a guarantor of political stability, and especially a preventive security shield against any obscurantist and retrograde tendencies - in other words, the spearhead of a society mobilized for progress and prosperity. That, in any case, was the path taken in promoting the status of women in Tunisia, launched immediately after Tunisia achieved its independence in 1956, with the adoption of a personal status code. This is one of the basic pillars of the new plan for our society that is being undertaken by independent Tunisia thanks in large part to the reformist revival brought to our country by President Ben Ali.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Today's debate makes it incumbent upon us to make a collective commitment to ensure that women, wherever they are, are no longer vulnerable, are no longer placed in an inferior position and are no longer exposed to discrimination, threats or terror. In this framework, our civilizations must choose to genuinely participate in the global move towards ensuring that women get the place and role that they deserve in today's societies as full-fledged citizens, partners benefiting from equal opportunities and holders of responsibilities in all sectors and at all levels.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“They also emphasized the need to promote women's rights as an essential precondition for peace, security and development worldwide. The international community possesses an impressive legal arsenal for eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and for protecting them as a vital force in every society. It is thus up to us to ensure rigorous implementation of the provisions of the relevant international legal documents and instruments, and to ensure that women in our societies, particularly those affected by war and conflict, finally benefit from the protection and attention that they deserve in order to bring about lasting peace and stability in our world.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Violence against women is, by definition, a dehumanizing and unacceptable practice and an abject violation of basic human rights. Such practices must be fought and forcefully punished. The efforts made to that end by the United Nations and its Member States can only be praised and encouraged. However, reports issued by the United Nations and its specialized agencies give us alarming statistics on the treatment of women and on their sufferings and call upon us to redouble our efforts to put an end, once and for all, to the violence and abuses committed against women. We should recall, in this context, that at the 2005 World Summit our heads of State or Government reaffirmed the importance of protecting civilians, particularly women, in conflict and post-conflict situations.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The active and involved participation in this debate of so many delegations of Member States 08-3908] reflects the primary interest that we all attach to issues of peace and security and to the central role of women in achieving this and in achieving the ideals of our universal organization. But it also highlights the role that we must play in order to promote women's rights in general and to protect and provide care for the victims of the horrors and brutalities of conflict in particular. While it is understood today that the international community must make greater efforts to promote the status and rights of women and to take appropriate action in that context, even more so must we protect them during times of conflict.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Mr. Mansour (Tunisia) (spoke in French): I would first like to take this opportunity to convey to Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States, my sincere congratulations on her country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I would also like to thank her for having taken the initiative to organize this debate on a topic that is as important as it is topical and which calls for a response from the entire international community. I also welcome the participation of Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Srgjan Kerim, President of the General Assembly, and many ministers this morning.”
2008-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5916Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The international community, including the Security Council, must uphold the responsibility and declared commitment to protect civilians in armed conflict. Respect must be demanded for the instruments of international law that are supposed to provide innocent civilians with protection from human rights violations and crimes in all situations of armed conflict, including foreign occupation. Armed conflicts are disastrous, but they are not natural disasters; they are man-made. The rule of law must therefore be central to the debate on protecting civilians, for respect of international law is the key to the prevention of conflicts, the protection of civilians where conflicts arise and, ultimately, the peaceful settlement of conflicts and the promotion of human rights, human security and human dignity.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for its Violations and crimes has regrettably reinforced Israel's lawlessness, permitting it to continue using military force and collective punishment against the defenceless Palestinian people under its occupation and, in essence, absolving it from its legal obligations as an occupying Power. Here, there is a clear role that must be played by the Security Council. As Israel continues to breach its legal obligations towards the Palestinian civilian population, the Security Council, if it cannot compel Israel to abide by the law, has a duty to determine and undertake appropriate measures to protect the civilian population. To continue doing nothing in the face of such crimes is unacceptable and, as we have witnessed over the years, the consequences are more than tragic.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“There has been a severe impact on all aspects of life, with poverty, hunger, disease and instability rising, particularly among the refugee population and especially among children, and the humanitarian crisis deepening. International law clearly forbids such brutality. Humanitarian and human rights law prohibit, inter alia, the killing and bodily injury of civilians, reprisals 3 against civilians and civilian objects, the wanton destruction of homes and other civilian property and the collective punishment of civilians. Such actions, wilfully perpetrated, constitute war crimes.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Palestinian civilians, including children, continue to be killed, wounded and maimed in Israeli military assaults, which are indiscriminately launched in civilian areas, particularly in the Gaza Strip, and which, in addition to the widespread casualties and destruction they cause, have terrorized and traumatized the population. At the same time, the civilian population suffers from the unlawful collective punishment measures being imposed by the occupying Power. The situation in Gaza is most dire, due to Israel's ongoing inhumane siege, by which it is deliberately obstructing humanitarian access, the movement of persons, including sick persons needing treatment unavailable in Gaza, and the movement of goods, including food, medical and fuel supplies.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The answer lies primarily in the lack of respect for international law and the international community's failure, in many circumstances, to ensure respect for the law and hold violators accountable for their crimes, with a view to ending those crimes and ensuring the protection of civilians and the promotion of their human rights. Regrettably, in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Palestinian people have been denied the protection to which they are entitled as a civilian population under occupation. There, civilians remain highly vulnerable and exposed to the occupying Power's lethal military force and massive, systematic and grave human rights violations.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Additionally, in 2005, in the World Summit Outcome Document (General Assembly resolution 60/1), world leaders affirmed the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, 08-35364 war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Yet, despite such legal safeguards, armed conflicts continue to claim the lives of innocent civilians, who continue to be the victims of appalling human rights violations and crimes, suffering physical and psychological harm, displacement, imprisonment, torture, exploitation, hunger, poverty, disease and the destruction of their communities. We must ask ourselves, then, why civilians are still so vulnerable and why such violations against civilians are permitted to continue with impunity.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The need to protect civilians, promote their welfare and safeguard their human dignity is at the core of the spirit and the purpose of those laws. Protection provisions can be found in many instruments of law, including the Geneva Conventions, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, which comprises provisions explicitly aimed at ensuring the safety of civilians in armed conflict, including specific provisions for civilians under foreign occupation; the Additional Protocols to those Conventions; the human rights covenants; the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; and United Nations resolutions.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Of course, the protection of civilians is an important component of the work of United Nations bodies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, UNICEF and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as well as of the work of many international humanitarian organizations. The basis and guiding principles for such efforts are the rules of international law, particularly humanitarian law and human rights law.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“I congratulate you, Sir, and your country, the United Kingdom, upon your assumption of the Security Council presidency. We are confident in your ability to wisely guide the Council's work. I also reiterate our thanks to South Africa for its very able leadership of the Council in April. Protecting civilians in armed conflict, including situations of foreign occupation, must be a priority mission of the United Nations, and the Security Council has clear responsibilities in this regard.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“In conclusion, I reiterate what President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly stated: there is a Palestinian partner ready to sit at the negotiating table with a serious Israeli partner to reach a solution based on the resolutions of international legitimacy, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Road Map. We seek a just and permanent solution guaranteeing the flourishing of peace, not a partial, unilateral or temporary solution that will actually prevent the realization of peace in our region. We assure the international community as a whole that we believe in right over might. We remain resolved to protect our rights and to promote our desire for peace. We appeal again to the international community to do its part to help us achieve peace in the Holy Land - peace in the land of peace.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Violence only begets Violence, and the continuation of occupation and colonization will ultimately impede any real prospects for realizing a peaceful, just and permanent solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole. We reaffirm that the attempts to determine the future of our people in the context of cantons and ghettos in a West Bank fragmented by settlements, the Wall, checkpoints and roadblocks, and of the siege of the Gaza Strip and acts of aggression will totally obstruct the attainment of the goal we all strive to achieve - a just, comprehensive and lasting peace.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“We will also continue to resort to other organs of the United Nations, including the General Assembly, and other international forums in order to bring an end to the violations and crimes being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights, foremost of which are the right to life, the right to self-determination, the right of refugees to return and to find a just solution to their plight in consonance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III), and the right to establish the independent State of Palestine, with its East Jerusalem as its capital - without which there can be no peaceful solution, as Jerusalem is the heart of Palestine. The road to security passes through the gate of justice and peace. There is no military solution to this conflict.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Immediate action must be taken to lift the siege and closure and allow for the movement of persons and goods in order to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population at all levels and in all sectors and to improve conditions on the ground. Such measures are imperative not only from a humanitarian aspect, they are also imperative from a peace aspect, for no one can expect a people enduring such inhumane and oppressive conditions to even entertain hopes for peace, much less believe in the prospects for peace. We reiterate that we will continue to resort to the Security Council until it assumes its responsibilities.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Israel must be compelled to allow for the opening of the Gaza border crossings to permit the movement of persons and goods, including foodstuffs, medical supplies, building materials and other necessary goods, and the unfettered access of the urgently needed humanitarian assistance and personnel to Gaza. In this regard, we reiterate the readiness of the Palestinian Authority to assume responsibility for the Palestine side of the Gaza Strip's border crossings, and we call on Israel to act on that initiative. The current situation in the Gaza Strip is a human catastrophe, and we cannot remain silent about it.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Moreover, the failure of the Security Council to uphold its responsibilities with regard to the deteriorating and tragic humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory will only encourage the occupying Power to continue its violations of international law, to continue committing crimes against the Palestinian people with impunity and to continue undermining the fragile peace process in the region. The international community cannot continue to allow the incarceration and suffocation of the entirety of the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip under the occupying Power's siege.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The Council must take urgent and practical measures, including, inter alia, measures prescribed by the Charter, to ensure Israel's scrupulous compliance with all of its obligations under international law and the cessation of its illegal practices, which endanger the international efforts being made to achieve peace through the peace process. Israel, the occupying Power, should be compelled to completely freeze all of its settlement activities, to rescind its recent decisions, to start dismantling settlement outposts and to take further confidence- building measures to show its seriousness with regard to addressing this critical issue. Such steps are vital to calming and improving the atmosphere, reviving momentum and helping to advance the peace process towards its stated goals.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“They also severely worsen the situation on the ground, which is already critical at all levels, thereby fuelling the cycle of violence and instability and exclusively serving the agendas of extremists and pushing peace further out of reach. Those violations must be brought to an end. The occupying Power must be held accountable for its crimes and Violations and be compelled to abide by all of its legal obligations. In the light of all of those serious developments, it is incumbent upon the international community, particularly the Security Council, to uphold its responsibilities and take the necessary measures to bring an end to all of those grave Israeli Violations and breaches of international law. That includes humanitarian law, and in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as human rights law and United Nations resolutions.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In addition to the extreme suffering caused to the Palestinian people, all of those actions undermine the role of the Palestinian Authority and damage the peace process, raising serious doubts regarding Israel's intentions and good faith in negotiations while it continues to pursue its illegal and destructive actions and measures. The killing of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of their properties and infrastructure, the imprisonment of thousands of civilians, the collective punishment, the starvation, the humiliation, the intimidation, the colonization and the other mass violations of human rights are in compatible with peace. They serve to dash hopes and impair the peace process, draining its momentum and credibility.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Such successive ongoing illegal measures by Israel, the occupying Power, and the timing of those measures are clearly and intricately correlated - whether they be the intensification of settlement activities in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, the deliberate repeated attempts by Israel to sabotage security efforts by the Palestinian Authority, the increase, rather than the removal, of checkpoints and roadblocks and the continuation and intensification of its siege of the Gaza Strip and the ongoing aggression against it to isolate it from the West Bank.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In that regard, the July 2007 report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) included alarming facts indicating that more than 38 per cent of the area of the West Bank is now occupied by settlements, outposts, military bases, roads and other infrastructure forbidden to Palestinians.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In reality, the illegal settlement campaign and the peace process clearly cannot coexist. The peace process cannot be separated from the situation on the ground, because all of those actions endanger the continuation of the entire peace process and create even more physical obstructions that must be contended with on the road to achieving a just and lasting peace settlement. They also undermine the future prospects for achieving the two-State solution of Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security on the basis of the 1967 borders. That physical affront to the two-State solution has been affirmed by several international bodies and organizations, including in reports regarding the negative and dangerous impact of ongoing settlement colonization on the future of the peace process.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The Israeli Housing Ministry's budget for 2008 includes financing for the building of 500 settlement units in Jebel Abu Ghneim and another 240 units in the Ma'ale Adumim, to the east of Jerusalem. Just two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the approval of the construction of an additional 750 new units in the Geevat Ze'ev settlement, north of East Jerusalem. Plans were also announced for the construction of 400 new settlement units in the Neve Yacub neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Moreover, the Israeli Prime Minister publicly declared recently that Israel would not stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, especially in East Jerusalem. That is a grave breach of international law that defies the will of the international community and undermines the efforts to revive the peace process.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“That is a grave and flagrant violation of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as of United Nations resolutions and the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on 9 July 2004. It is also a violation of its obligations under the Road Map. In that regard, and in the context of its attempts to create massive physical facts on the ground, immediately following the convening of the Annapolis Conference and the resumption of the peace process, in November 2007, Israel announced the continuation of its illegal expansionist plans to build at least 2,000 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, thereby furthering its illegal efforts to change the character, status and demographic composition of the Holy City and to judaize it.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The hollow security pretext that Israel, the occupying Power, constantly uses and exploits while virtually ignoring its very role as an occupying Power can be summed up in its ongoing pursuit of efforts intended to prolong the occupation and to conceal the expansion of its colonialist settlements and its confiscation of more Palestinian land. What sort of security does Israel hope to achieve by continuing its occupation and colonization of Palestinian land? What kind of security does Israel want to achieve by transforming the land into isolated ghettos, cantons and large prisons? Israel, the occupying Power, is relentlessly continuing to carry out colonial settlement activities. It is also continuing to build its illegal wall on occupied Palestinian territory, including in and around East Jerusalem.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, peace and security are to be achieved through effective collective measures to prevent and eradicate threats to peace and to suppress acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace. We therefore reaffirm the fact that peace and security in our region will be achieved only with the end of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. That requires serious steps that will lead to the end of the occupation in all its aspects and make it possible for the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination on the basis of the principle of the equality of the rights of all peoples as enshrined in the Charter.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In that context, it must be stated that security, freedom and basic standards of living are the rights of all peoples without discrimination and are not exclusive to any religion, race, colour or ethnicity. Like all the other peoples of the world, the Palestinian people - its children, women, young people and men - have the right to life and to enjoy prosperity, security and safety. Moreover, they have the right to live in freedom and dignity in their own land, the land of their forefathers, following an occupation that has lasted for more than 40 years and 60 years of exile in refugee camps and diaspora. In accordance with the norms of international law and norms, the Palestinian people also have the right to international protection.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“When the slaughter of innocent children has become acceptable or is somehow sought to be justified under any pretext, we know that we have fully sunk into a dark abyss characterized by the total absence of law, logic, reason, morality, conscience and humanity. When we fail to stand against such brutal and heinous crimes, we bitterly come to understand that the standards of law and human rights are not applicable equally to all human beings, including children, women, the elderly and the disabled. That perception is dangerously rife among the Palestinian people, who have endured the killing of more than 1,000 children by the Israeli occupying forces since 2000 under the pretext of security.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The pursuit of those attacks deepened the suffering of a people that is already enduring extremely difficult and miserable living conditions as a result of the suffocating siege imposed for many months now by the occupying Power on the Gaza Strip and the ensuing humanitarian and environmental disaster being inflicted upon it. Those crimes have been continuously justified by Israel, the occupying Power, under the pretexts of security, the right to self-defence and counter- terrorism. In that regard, we reiterate our previously stated position that nothing justifies the killing of children.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“In that respect, we must stress the negative ramifications of the Council's inability to adopt a resolution clearly condemning Israel's acts of aggression and calling upon it to cease its flagrant Violations of international law, including human rights law and particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stresses the need to take all necessary and possible measures to ensure the protection of children in armed conflict, as well as international humanitarian law, which, inter alia, in article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibits reprisals against civilians and the imposition of collective punishment on civilian populations.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Despite the warnings of international bodies and humanitarian organizations of the precarious situation in the Gaza Strip; despite our continuous warnings through successive letters and statements to the Security Council; and despite the appeal made by the Council to the parties to respect their obligations under international law following the emergency meeting of the Council of 1 March 2008, Israel pursued its military campaign in total disregard for all international appeals.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The raids and attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 120 Palestinian martyrs, most of them innocent civilians inside their own homes, including more than 25 children and infants and 10 women, and the wounding of more than 300 other civilians. That vicious military campaign lasted for four days, during which Israel used all types of heavy and lethal weaponry to bombard densely populated civilian areas by air, sea and land, causing massive bloodshed and the widespread destruction of public and private property and infrastructure.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Among those developments have been brutal crimes committed by the occupying forces against Palestinian civilians, including children, particularly in the Gaza Strip, and announcements by the Israeli Government of ongoing plans to expand illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, especially in and around East Jerusalem. With regard to the Gaza Strip in particular, following threats made by several Israeli officials to launch large-scale military attacks against the Palestinian people under occupation in the Gaza Strip, including the threat made by the Deputy Defense Minister of Israel to inflict a "holocaust" on the Palestinian population in Gaza, the Israeli occupying forces launched a barbaric military aggression against civilian areas in the northern Gaza Strip on 27 February 2008.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Israel continues to pursue its illegal policies aimed at entrenching its occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, inter alia through illegal settlement activities, the construction of the wall, the confiscation of land, the imposition of a suffocating siege and collective punishment, brutal military aggression and countless other crimes committed by the Israeli occupying forces and fanatical Israeli settlers against the Palestinian civilian population. Particularly over the past few weeks, the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, has witnessed grave developments and a further deterioration and destabilization of the situation, which require the immediate attention of the Security Council.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“Instead of advancing towards the consolidation of the foundations of a just, permanent and comprehensive peace leading to the conclusion of a peace agreement that paves the way to the establishment of an independent, sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian State on the basis of the 1967 borders by the end of this year, the Israeli Government continues deliberately to undermine the simplest achievements made in the interests of peace.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“I would like to start by expressing our gratitude and thanks to the Secretary- General for his participation with us today, for his statement and, above all, for his commitment to doing all he can to end the Israeli occupation begun in 1967 and to allow the two-State solution to see the light of day on the well-known bases he enumerated. Palestine will continue to cooperate with him and with the Security Council to that end. I would also like to thank Mr. Pascoe for his statement and for the recommendations and conclusions contained therein. 08-28218 (spoke in Arabic) Once again, I am compelled to convey to the Security Council the recent negative and grave developments in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, as a result of the illegal and destructive policies of Israel, the occupying Power.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859 (2008) · source
“The Security Council must be a player to help the parties break this deadly cycle of violence and help them to advance the new strategy that has been called for to bring an immediate halt to the violence and resolve the current crisis, ameliorate the terrible situation on the ground and create calm and an environment conducive to the advancement of serious peace negotiations in good faith. Continued silence will only bring more death and destruction and the further dangerous destabilization of the situation to the detriment of all concerned, which must be avoided at all costs.”
2008-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5847 (2008) · source
“We therefore reiterate our call on the Security Council and on the international community as whole to shoulder their legal and moral obligations and provide the defenceless Palestinian civilians with urgently needed and effective protection. Additionally, an immediate ceasefire in the occupied Palestinian territory and tangible action are required to bring an end to the violence, the killing of civilians, the destruction and the obstruction of provision of humanitarian assistance.”
2008-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5847 (2008) · source
“It must uphold international law and its Charter responsibilities and act to bring an end to this cycle of violence and counter-violence. It must demand respect for the sanctity of civilian life and demand utmost respect for the provisions of international humanitarian law that are supposed to provide innocent civilians with protection in situations of foreign occupation. It must condemn the killing of civilians and condemn the violence that is causing only more suffering and loss for both peoples and taking us further away from the vision of peace we have been striving so desperately to realize - to no avail, as all efforts have been constantly undermined by such illegal actions.”
2008-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5847 (2008) · source
“John Holmes, have just this past week briefed the Security Council (see S/PV.5846) on the critical and absolutely untenable situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, with its grave consequences for the security, well-being and human dignity of Palestinian civilians, and have clearly stressed the urgency of bridging the huge gap between the situation on the ground and the peace process between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, including via a new strategy vis-a-vis the Gaza Strip by the concerned parties, in order to avert the fatal undermining of that process and the sabotaging of all hopes for peace. This requires immediate and real action by the international community. The Security Council cannot continue to be sidelined as this crisis continues to escalate.”
2008-03-01 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5847 (2008) · source