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Mansour

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“We warn against the logic of the United States Administration, which holds that international law is an obstacle to peace, seeks to justify Israeli crimes and believes that it can impose its will on the international community as a fact to be accepted. There cannot be one international law that applies to all of us and another that is invented and tailored by the United States Administration to suit Israel's colonial greed and forgive its crimes. The international law that we all know does not permit double standards or bullying. It should apply to everyone without exception, including Israel and the United States. The international law that we know does not forgive the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. It does not prevent its civilians from having even a little bit of life and hope.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“Every country here at the United Nations can contribute to achieving peace by supporting our inalienable rights and by refusing to acknowledge Israel's illegal practices and policies, including those aimed at changing the status and character of Jerusalem or at changing the pre-1967 borders. They can support us by refraining from providing assistance and support to illegal settlement activities, by differentiating between Israel and the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 where relevant transactions are concerned, and by ensuring accountability and ending impunity, which is one of the major obstacles to the achievement ofjustice, peace and security.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“In that regard, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the States, Governments, organizations and members of the Council that have expressed their support for upholding international legitimacy and committing to the international consensus on the basis of the terms of reference for a just and peaceful solution. They have reaffirmed that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, are a blatant violation of international law and a key impediment to ending the Israeli occupation and achieving peace in line with a two-State solution based on the 1967 borders.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“We reaffirm that settlements, as a form of colonialism, are illegitimate according to United Nations resolutions and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences ofthe Construction ofa Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (see A/ES-10/273). They constitute a violation of the Charter of the United Nations, a blatant breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime under the Rome Statute. Any attempt to change that reality is therefore doomed to failure, and no one, no matter how strong, can change international law according to whims or illusions.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“In its resolutions on this subject, from 242 (1967) to 2334 (2016), the Security Council has reaffirmed the inadmissibility of the seizure of other people's land by force. That has been a basic principle of international law, implemented since the end of the Second World War. The Council has also affirmed the illegitimacy of Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories, including the Palestinian territory, and has stated that it was illegal to annex Jerusalem. In its adoption of those resolutions, it was working to achieve international peace and security, in line with its mandate.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“This Administration continues to deepen its ineligibility as a peace mediator, its use of double standards and its bias regarding the Israeli occupation at the expense of our right to self-determination. Today it is impossible to believe that the voice of the United States is a voice in support of peace. It has become Clear that it is a voice that incites others against the Palestinian people and encourages Israel to continue with its illegal annexation of our territory and systematic violations of our rights. Our land is not a gift that the United States can offer to satisfy the ambitions of Netanyahu, and the blood of our people is not a currency to be used as a bargaining chip in Israeli elections.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“We are confident that the position of the international community, especially the Council, is strong and firm in rejecting this latest declaration by the United States, as it has done with regards to previous ones. All such declarations run counter to international law and the Charter of the United Nations and its relevant resolutions. They will not affect the legal and political situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, or accord any legality to Israel's colonization policies on our territory, including its annexation policy and its illegitimate settlements. That will affect only the position, image and credibility of the United States, or what is left of them in the eyes of the international community.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“It is to be added to the series of provocative and irresponsible measures taken by the United States Administration, beginning with the claim that Jerusalem is "the capital of Israel", ongoing attacks against Palestinian refugees and their right to return to their homes, and attempts to put an end to the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as well as recognizing so-called Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan. The international community has confronted and rejected all of these policies, which have also been rejected here at the Council, including by some Council members who spoke to the press before this very meeting.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“It continues to deny their right to self- determination, to freedom and to independence. The United States Administration has made yet another unlawful declaration on illegitimate Israeli settlements in order to kill any chance of achieving peace, security and stability in our region and for its peoples. We strongly reject and condemn such an unlawful and irresponsible Declaration, which we consider to be legally, politically, historically and morally null and void, without any value whatsoever.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“Mr. Mansour (Palestine) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, and your delegation on assuming the presidency of the Council this month. We are confident that, with your wisdom, you will lead the Council's work to a successful end. I also wish to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nikolay Mladenov, and the Executive Director of Gisha, Ms. Tania Hary, for their comprehensive briefings and their assessments of the current difficult situation in all its dimensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. This meeting is being held today in the wake of continued attacks by the United States Administration on the inherent rights of the Palestinian people to their territory.”
2019-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8669 (2019) · source
“Failure to do so will have far-reaching repercussions and unravel decades of efforts and resources invested in our shared noble goals of peace, stability and human dignity. We must not let another generation suffer that injustice.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“Only such determined, collective and coordinated action can move us from deadlock to finally bringing an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967, thereby fulfilling the Palestinian people's right to independence in their sovereign, contiguous democratic State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace and security, the cornerstone for peace and security in the Middle East as per the long-standing international consensus. For the sake ofpeace, the benefit ofall peoples ofthe region and the respect for the authority of international law, we must act together to change course, restore hope and attain just and comprehensive peace.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“Lastly, we reiterate our call for continued principled support for the rights of the Palestinian people, including to self-determination and freedom. Until they are realized, we shall continue our appeals for humanitarian assistance to alleviate the plight of our people, including Palestinian refugees and to ensure that they are not left behind. We recognize with deep gratitude the generous international support in that regard through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and urge strong backing for the renewal of its mandate, an important expression of responsibility and solidarity and an indispensable source of hope and stability until a just solution for the Palestinian refugees is realized based on resolution 194 (11).”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“We reiterate our call for release of the database on businesses engaged in activities related to the illegal settlements, which was mandated by the Human Rights Council and will help States to uphold their obligations. States also have a duty of non-recognition of any decisions or measures altering or purporting to alter the geographic and demographic character or status of the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. All such decisions and measures must be deemed unlawful, null and void and should incur consequences if not rescinded. The legal and historic status quo at the holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem, including at Al-Haram Al-Sharif, must be respected, as must Jordan's custodianship of the Muslim and Christian holy sites.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“All legitimate political and legal tools and measures available, including sanctions and court prosecution must be pursued to ensure accountability. That must include action pursuant to the call for distinction in resolution 2334 (2016) and other relevant resolutions including, inter alia, resolution 478 (1980), on Jerusalem, and resolution 465 (1980), in which the Council clearly called on all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connection with its settlements in the territories occupied since 1967. We urge States to take concrete steps in that regard, in both multilateral and bilateral frameworks, in conformity with their legal obligations and with affirmed support for the two-State solution.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“I repeat - only accountability can change that. Therefore, we appeal once more to the Security Council and all States to act. We urge them to mobilize the political will to fulfil their obligations by taking practical measures in line with international law and the relevant resolutions, which guarantee just and sustainable peace and security. The Security Council must shoulder its responsibilities and act immediately in line with its resolutions to bring about a halt to the occupation's crimes, avert further destabilization, protect innocent civilians and salvage any chance for peace. States, intergovernmental organizations and civil society must also uphold their respective roles and responsibilities. Should Israel continue to defy the Council and the will of the international community, it must bear the consequences for its Violations.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“That all continues unabated. The fact is that the occupying Power has been led to believe that it has carte blanche to act as a State above the law, going so far as to openly threaten to annex our land, in flagrant breach of the universal prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force. With or without a formal Government, Israeli politicians and candidates shamelessly compete to see who can be more brutal and punishing to the Palestinians and who can cater more to extremist Israeli groups that will never be satiated, as evidenced by their daily terror campaign against our civilians, as well as their incitement and their rabid land- grabs. Nothing else could be expected in the absence of consequences for such great violations by this most protracted foreign occupation in modern history. Only accountability can change that.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“Indeed, despite decades of global attention, none of Israel's violations in occupied Palestine have stopped. Those include the colonization or de facto annexation of our land by all means, with the settlements and wall being the most insidious examples; the inhumane 12-year blockade and collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, inflicting devastating poverty and despair; the killing and injury of defenceless Palestinian civilians by the occupying forces and extremist settlers; the destruction of homes and properties and the forced displacement of Palestinian families, especially in occupied East Jerusalem - with 140 homes demolished in the city in 2019 alone - rendering homeless 238 Palestinians, more than half of them children; the dangerous provocations and assaults at holy sites; the impoverishment and detention of thousands of our civilians, or the blatant theft of our natural and financial resources.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“As concluded by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in his latest report: "No occupation in the modern world has been conducted with the international community so alert to its many grave breaches of international law, so knowledgeable about the occupier's obvious and well-signalled intent to annex and establish permanent sovereignty, so well-informed about the scale of suffering and dispossession endured by the protected population under occupation, and yet so unwilling to act upon the overwhelming evidence before it to employ the tangible and plentiful legal and political tools at its disposal to end the injustice." Without accountability, the deplorable situation we have faced will surely only worsen, paving the way for more suffering and insecurity for all, with innocent civilians, among them children and woman, bearing the heaviest and most heart-breaking weight of the international community's negligence.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“But, in the absence of serious action to give tangible meaning to that consensus, the alternative is rapidly unfolding before our eyes and is one of an apartheid State in control of the lives of millions who are being oppressively, violently and unjustly deprived of their fundamental rights, even the right to live as free and equal human beings. After over 52 years of illegal occupation and the cruel exile imposed on millions of Palestinians for over seven decades, it is clear that the failure to reach a solution is not for lack of attention to the conflict or lack of resolutions; it is for lack of genuine efforts to uphold the rules, decisions and humanitarian commitments that have been repeatedly pled for.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“The international consensus is firm and attempts to alter or negate it have failed. Indeed, we have often heard that, when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. International law is clear. The parameters of a just solution are clear and there is no alternative to the vision of two States, based on the 1967 lines and in accordance with international law, the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“The Palestinian people and the global community at large expect and await more. The mandate of the Security Council, under the Charter of the United Nations, to maintain international peace and security surely requires more. As the calls to preserve multilateralism against current threats grow, shoring up the Security Council's role in the peaceful resolution of conflicts must be front and centre. That requires urgent action to uphold and enforce international law, aimed at halting violations, deterring future violations and fostering an environment conducive to the pursuit and achievement of peace. In the case of Palestine, the Council's relevant resolutions, from resolution 2334 (2016) to allresolutions preceding it, provide a solid basis for such action.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“Every month, we come before the Security Council to appeal to it to act to ensure the implementation of its resolutions on the Palestine question, certain that only such action can bring us all back from the brink, stopping the senseless, painful human suffering caused by the man-made crisis and salvaging the prospects for a just peace. Yet, every month we are compelled to listen to reports of a worsening situation, as Israel, the occupying Power, intensifies its illegal occupation and colonization of our land and a political horizon for a peaceful solution remains obstructed. It cannot be that the role of the Council is reduced to that of a gathering for the airing of grievances, statements of sympathy and solidarity, as important as they are, and helpless hand-wringing.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“I wish to begin by expressing our congratulations and appreciation to the Republic of South Africa for its most able leadership of the Security Council in this month of its presidency. I would like to welcome you, Madam Minister, and thank you for presiding over today's meeting. I would also like to welcome Her Excellency Ms. Antje Leendertse, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mladenov, for his briefing on the current situation in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“When we come here to speak, we are all required to respect the Security Council and to work to implement its resolutions.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“He lives in a fantasy land, believing that he is opening the doors for normalization with Arab countries - another lie. All of the representatives of the Arab countries who spoke, including the representative of the League of Arab States, reiterated their commitment. That also includes the representative of Bahrain, as he referred to the statement made by the Foreign Minister of Bahrain. They all said that they remain committed to the just cause of Palestine and to the Arab Peace Initiative and its implementation. He can listen to whatever noise is in his head, but he is refusing to listen to the members of the Security Council. Yet he comes here to abuse the privilege the Council provides him to listen to his statements.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Or is it the extreme Israeli Government of occupation that destroys any hope of peace based on the global consensus that is reflected in many Security Council resolutions and to which all members agreed? I also challenge the liar to say whether or not he accepts the implementation of Security Council resolutions on the conflict. We do, as do members. As the German Ambassador said not too long ago, Security Council resolutions are part of international law and they need to be implemented. The Council has a responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations to ensure that they are implemented. This deaf man is not listening to the message that members keep repeating, repeating and repeating, and yet he chooses not to listen to it.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Today, and on many previous occasions, he proved that he truly lives up to that reputation and the characterization by the Israeli media. Although he is not succeeding, he is trying to tell the Council that we did not make the historical compromise to agree to have the Palestinian State on 22 per cent of historic Palestine, which is less than what is available to us according to resolution 181 (II). It is a lie that we do not want to have peace and the two-State solution. On the other hand, the Government that he represents, which is the most extreme in the history of Governments in Israel, is creating a one-State apartheid reality in historic Palestine. Who, then, is destroying the global consensus of a two-State solution? Is it the Palestinian leadership that he falsely attacks by spreading lies against it?”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“We urge the Security Council to act and also call on the members of the Quartet, in line with their Council mandate, to exert serious efforts to that end, in cooperation with all regional partners concerned, the League of Arab States and all peace-loving nations. Only through such a collective drive for peace can we justly resolve the Palestine question, establish Israeli- Palestinian peace and truly contribute to peace and security in the Middle East, which is so essential for a more just, stable and peaceful world. With your indulgence, Madam President, I would like to take a minute to respond to the false assertions from a speaker who took the floor not too long ago. According to Israeli media, before he came to the United Nations, that speaker had a reputation for being a big liar in Israel.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“We remain committed to the path ofpeace and negotiations, based on the relevant resolutions aimed at achieving a peace agreement that resolves all final-status issues and realizes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination and a life of freedom and dignity in an independent and sovereign State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side in peace with the State of Israel within secure, internationally recognized borders, based on the 1967 lines, and ajust solution for the Palestine refugees, based on resolution 194 (III) and the Arab Peace Initiative. We reiterate our call for a multilateral political process based on the long-standing parameters and within a set time frame and reaffirm our readiness to engage, including in an international peace conference.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“This is the dilemma that the international community continues to face in the region. Overcoming the many serious challenges that we face requires addressing this central issue. There is no military solution to this conflict or any other conflict in our region. Likewise, the imposition of unjust solutions - such as the "deal of deals" or the "deal of the century" - is not peacemaking and will fail, with increased massive political, security, economic, social and human costs. What is needed is the immediate mobilization of the political will to implement the Security Council's resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Either they are deaf and should go see a doctor to fix their ears, or they are unable to accept what everyone else is articulating as to what the solution is. And there is consensus based on that. The problem is that those solutions have never been given a fair chance to be implemented. The Council's authority has instead been met with flagrant contempt by Israel, the occupying Power, which continues entrenching the illegal occupation with its settlement colonization campaign, oppressing the Palestinian people in the most inhumane, cruel ways, and obstructing every credible peace initiative. A Permanent member's use of the veto has further undermined the Council and exacerbated the situation, blocking any attempt to compel a halt to the occupation's crimes and peacefully resolve the conflict.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“They are wholly realistic and clearly and carefully articulated, with due regard for the international consensus on the two-State solution, which is based on compromise, not extreme absolutes, and due respect for international law and the Charter of the United Nations, including the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force. Some who come often to the Council are deaf and do not want to hear what everyone here articulates all the time - that we all know what the solution is, namely, the end of the occupation, the two-State solution within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as the capital of our country, and a just solution to the refugee problem. That is often repeated by all Council members, the Europeans and by ministers. But some Ambassadors who are sitting here are living in a fantasy land and refuse to listen.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“The path is well known, as long ago determined by the Council in its resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016), which clearly called for the intensification of international and regional efforts to end the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map. Those are not tired formulas or slogans. They constitute the internationally endorsed basis for reaching a peaceful solution. The problem is not that the Council's resolutions are unrealistic, vague or unimplementable, as claimed by some.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“While the conflicts in our region are many, and collective political efforts are urgently needed to solve them, we are certain that forging a secure, peaceful future in the Middle East requires at its core a just solution to the question of Palestine in line with international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions, as many speakers before me indicated.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Tragically, the human cost of such impunity has also been profound, with humanitarian disasters widespread throughout the region, including as a result of the forced displacement of millions of civilians, including 5.5 million Palestine refugees. I believe that the Ambassador of Kuwait mentioned that one third of today's 70 million refugees are in the Arab region and that, among the 24 million from the Arab region, the 5.5 million Palestinians among them have been refugees for more than 70 years. Unchecked, such human insecurity, poverty and misery can only continue to destabilize the region and cause an outflow of desperate people seeking survival and a better life for their families, as witnessed in the turmoil of the past decade.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Reckless Israeli provocations in occupied East Jerusalem, including daily violations and incitement at Al-Haram Al-Sharif by Israeli occupying forces, officials and religious extremists, in disrespect of the historic legal status quo and religious sensitivities at that holy site, risk sparking a dangerous religious conflict, which must be averted. In that connection, we recall with horror and pain the incidents of 50 years ago today involving attempts by Israeli extremist settlers to burn down the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, which, among other things, led to the creation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. So we do not forget such horrific terrorist incidents by the Israeli occupying authority.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“No one can deny that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's protraction - chiefly due to a systemic failure to hold Israel accountable and halt its gross violations in occupied Palestine - has cultivated a destructive culture of impunity. That, in turn, has fostered a climate ripe for the proliferation of conflict in the region with, a vast political, social, economic and security impact, in many cases creating fertile conditions for the spread of extremism and terror, as well as religious strife, thereby undermining the potential of religion as a force for social good, tolerance and coexistence. In that regard, we must once again caution against provoking religious conflict in Palestine.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Moreover, such attempts ignore the depths of distrust, anger and despair that that injustice has sown across the region, have shaken beliefin international law and the fairness of the international system and continue fuelling toxic narratives of double standards, including among young people, who make up the majority of populations across the Arab and Muslim world. Despite persisting hopes and expectations, confidence in the Security Council is in free fall, as its efforts to halt violence, uphold international humanitarian law, including to protect civilians, and peacefully resolve conflicts are repeatedly obstructed, with Israel's blatant, long-running defiance of the Council being the most glaring example.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“It is impossible to truly examine, understand and remedy the root causes of the situation in the Middle East without addressing the Palestine question. Attempts to side-step or downplay the ruinous impact on the region of the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their homeland, more than 70 years ago, of more than a half-century of Israel's military occupation and of the ongoing denial and violation of Palestinian rights are misleading and do a disservice to the aim of achieving peace and security in the region. Absent Palestinian-Israeli peace, that goal will remain elusive.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“We congratulate Poland on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs for convening this important debate. I am honoured to represent the State of Palestine and to join the other countries of the Middle East to address the Security Council on the challenges to peace and security in the Middle East. This matter is urgent, as the peoples of the Middle East are enduring recurrent crises and violent conflicts that are causing immense human suffering and threatening international peace and security. At the crux of this situation is the Palestine question, the longest-standing issue on the United Nations agenda and the core of the Arab- Israeli conflict.”
2019-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8600 (2019) · source
“Only such action and pressure can bring change and salvage the chances for peace. Continuing to appease and coddle Israel, the occupying Power, can only lead to more of the same impunity and worse. We will do so at our peril, but also at the peril of the Israeli people and the region as a whole, which will continue to be deprived ofthe justice, peace, security and development that so many have long sought and struggled for. Do not let another generation suffer that injustice.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“The Security Council must shoulder its responsibilities and act immediately, in line with its resolutions, to compel a halt to the occupation's crimes, avert further deterioration of the situation, protect innocent civilians and salvage the chances for a just peace. Israel must bear the consequences ofits violations and its disregard of the international community's will. States must also act, individually and collectively, to adhere to the relevant resolutions in both word and deed, and to uphold their legal obligations, including the obligation not to recognize or render aid or assistance to the current illegal situation and the obligation to ensure accountability. That must include action in respect of the call for distinction in resolution 2334 (2016) and all other relevant resolutions, including resolution 478 (1980) on Jerusalem.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“We are grateful for those principled positions and the solidarity extended to our just cause and our people, including to Palestine refugees through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. However, commitment to principles and humanitarian assistance alone cannot remedy that abysmal situation and make peace possible. International action, in line with legal, political and moral duties concerning the Palestine question, must be taken. There must be accountability. All the legitimate tools that are politically and legally available, including prosecution in courts and sanctions, must be pursued without hesitation.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“At every juncture, calls are made for action to achieve the two-State solution based on the 1967 borders in accordance with international law, the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet road map. Equally consistent are the calls for action to bring an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967; to realize the independence and sovereignty of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side with Israel on the basis of secure and recognized borders; and to achieve a just solution for the Palestine refugees in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III) of 1948. The consensus remains that such a solution would be the guarantor of just, lasting and comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli peace and security.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“The global consensus on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to the same freedoms cherished worldwide, on the principles and parameters of a just solution, remains strong, and we thank and salute members for holding firmly to their collective and unanimous position in spite of all the efforts of some to try to convince them otherwise on the basis of big ideas that were not even shared with them. Those principles and parameters and the commitment to their realization are reaffirmed in this Chamber every month. That consensus has been reaffirmed by recent summits of the League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the African Union, as well as by the ministerial meetings of the OIC and the Non-Aligned Movement, and it remains at the core of the international position.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“The continuation of those criminal, inhumane actions, like all the crimes before them over more than 70 years of injustice, have sown deep resentment, anger and pain among our people, while the international community's silence and inaction have only deepened our hurt, despair and sense of abandonment. The colonization and annexation of our land by Israel, its suffocation of Gaza, its violence, terror and incitement against our people, its killing of our children, its imprisonment of our people, its assaults on our holy sites, its theft of our natural and financial resources and its destruction of our future must be halted.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“They have been and will continue to be resilient. They will not submit or surrender. There is no people on this Earth that will willingly give up the right to freedom and human dignity, and I say that in the presence of representatives of nations that have fought valiantly to free themselves from occupation. Those members who have lived under colonial domination and fought against colonialism to acquire their freedom would not consider for a second exchanging their freedom for money or a better life. Freedom was always the most important thing and we are exactly like them. Freedom is the most important thing for us.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“When people live peacefully, even under conditions of constant oppression, and when they work hard, support themselves and build homes for themselves on their own land only to see those homes destroyed under pretexts that are as false as they are illegal, how can that possibly contribute to a better life, a sense of dignity and stability? How can such dispossession, as was inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Palestinians before them, foster any beliefthat peace and coexistence are possible? It cannot. No amount of spin or propaganda - or stories told inside or outside this Chamber - can hide the fact that those actions are being taken in a grave breach of international humanitarian law that amounts to massive collective punishment. Yet, though dispossessed and displaced, deprived and isolated, the Palestinian people remain.”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source
“Its recent inauguration of the so-called Pilgrims Road, with the support of the United States Ambassador to Israel and other American officials, was yet another illegal act attempting to assert sovereignty where there is none and to alter the character and status of that Holy City in flagrant contravention of United Nations resolutions, revealing yet again the occupation's expansionist, extremist intentions. Is that the better life that some United States administration officials claiming to seek peace speak of? Is that the future touted by the failed, so-called Peace to Prosperity workshop convened last month, which neglected to even minimally acknowledge the root causes of the conflict, the reality of a half-century of occupation and the basic rights of the Palestinian people, we wonder?”
2019-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8583 (2019) · source