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  1. “We cannot afford that, especially when we are already struggling to build solidarity to tackle climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The vicious cycle of violence must end. More than half of the population of Gaza are children and young people. They deserve hope for their future, not gloom and despair. Malaysia remains steadfast in its belief that lasting peace can be achieved only through the establishment of a free and independent State of Palestine in accordance with a two-State solution, based on the pre-1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “The horrors of the war have fuelled anger among people everywhere. Tensions are increasing in the West Bank, which has already recorded its highest- ever number of casualties in one year. The dangerous ramifications of the conflict, if it continues to escalate, cannot be overstated. The options before the Council are stark. It can act now and save lives, or continue to dither and let more innocent people be killed. Malaysia therefore reiterates its call for the Council to take united, effective and urgent action for the sake of humanity. A failure to act will further erode the already dwindling trust and confidence in multilateralism and will only confirm the hypocrisy, double standards and unequal treatment that we have seen.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “We must ensure that civilians and civilian infrastructure are being protected in accordance with all the applicable international laws. Malaysia joins others in demanding for an immediate ceasefire. That is absolutely vital if we are to prevent further loss of life and ensure that the necessary humanitarian work is carried out. We also call for unhindered and unfettered humanitarian access so that aid can reach everyone in need anywhere in Gaza. It is important for that to include permitting fuel to be brought into Gaza, since it is crucial for keeping hospitals and ambulances running, ensuring a clean water supply and cooking food. Malaysia also opposes the forced displacement of the Gazan population. It is against international law. The reality is that there is no safe place in Gaza at the moment.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “But while the people of Gaza have indeed endured much hardship, the scale of the current Israeli onslaught has shocked us all. The ongoing continued pummelling of Gaza has created a humanitarian catastrophe of indescribable magnitude. And it will get worse. It will get worse if the Security Council continues to be paralysed and if it continues to be an arena for one-upmanship, blame games and finger- pointing. Since the assault on Gaza began, more than 5,000 innocent civilians have been killed, including more than 2,000 children. How many more innocent civilians have to die? How many more children have to be orphaned, killed or maimed before the Council decides that enough is enough? The Council must act urgently and decisively. The killings of innocent civilians must stop.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important open debate. My thanks also go to the briefers for their updates. Malaysia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the In- alienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and the state- ment to be delivered by the representative of Mauritania on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. We express our deepest condolences to the families of those who have died in the ongoing hostilities, including United Nations personnel. We commend the courage and commitment of the staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and other humanitarian workers who continue to serve in Gaza. Gaza has been described as the world’s largest open- air prison.”

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  6. “The Committee reiterates that a just and lasting peace will be achieved only with the end of Israel’s occupation, the end of illegal settlements that further and entrench the occupation, and the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including to self-determination and freedom, which they have been too long denied.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  7. “As the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) struggles to sustain its life-saving activities for Palestinian refugees, the two-day Israeli military operation in June in the Jenin refugee camp — home to nearly 24,000 people — damaged at least 900 houses, rendering many of them uninhabitable, interrupted essential services and left UNRWA’s crucial health centre unusable and at least 3,500 refugees displaced. The Committee condemns Israel’s actions against Palestinian refugees and the destruction of UNRWA’s life-saving investments. We call on all donors and partners to make funds available immediately to UNRWA for the humanitarian response in the Jenin camp and to ensure sustainable and predictable funding for the Agency, to enable it to faithfully uphold its mandate.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  8. “The Committee further calls on all United Nations human rights mechanisms, including the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to take action in accordance with their mandates, to ensure accountability for Israel’s human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory. The Committee expresses appreciation in that regard for the efforts of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 in advocating for the protection of Palestinian children and the civilian population as a whole, in accordance with international law. Israel’s occupation has now become doubly punitive towards Palestinian refugees.”

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  9. “In his report of 5 June 2023 on children and armed conflict (S/2023/363), the Secretary-General reported more than 3,133 verified grave violations against Palestinian children, including the killing of 54 of them between January and December 2022 in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The Committee calls for a halt to Israel’s use of force against children and appeals to all stakeholders in the conflict — Israeli and Palestinian — to abide by their domestic and international legal obligations and to protect children.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  10. “We urge Israel to stop incitement and provocations against the Palestinian people and fully comply with its obligations as the occupying Power under international law. The Committee decries the lack of accountability for illegal Israeli actions, including during the Israeli military aggression on Gaza in May 2023. We call for the immediate lifting of the blockade on that part of the Palestinian territory and for respect for the relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolution 1860 (2009). The Committee reiterates that the indiscriminate launching of rockets towards Israeli population centres is prohibited by international humanitarian law. People worldwide hope for their children to inherit good health and prosperity. The children of Palestine, however, have inherited only occupation.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  11. “Thus far this year, Israel has advanced plans for over 10,000 housing units in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in East Jerusalem, with the clear intention of further colonizing and fragmenting the Palestinian territory and illegally cementing its own control. It is of utmost concern that Israeli political actors are inflaming the situation, rather than calling for calm. During the violence in Jenin, an Israeli Cabinet member urged Israeli security forces to blow up buildings and assassinate terrorists in the dozens, hundreds or, if needed, thousands, and called on settlers to run to the hilltops and establish additional outposts. The Committee strongly condemns the inflammatory rhetoric and actions of the Israeli authorities, which support illegal land confiscation and violate international law.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  12. “Israel must immediately take decisive steps to halt those attacks, ensure accountability and protect Palestinians in line with its responsibility as the occupying Power. We renew our appeal to the Security Council to ensure a mechanism to protect the Palestinian people from the occupying forces’ incursions and provocative actions. Such attacks are the direct result of Israel’s expanding settlement policy in utter disregard for international law and resolutions of the Security Council, including resolution 2334 (2016), which repeatedly declared all settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, to be illegal and demanded an immediate halt to and the reversal of related policies and practices, as they are tantamount to de facto annexation.”

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  13. “From 20 to 25 June, Israeli settlers targeted several Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank, causing extensive damage and terrorizing civilians. As stated by Special Coordinator Wennesland in his 27 June briefing (see S/PV.9361), those attacks often happen with the protection or in the proximity of Israeli occupying forces. In May, the living structures of the Palestinian herding community of Ein Samiya in the occupied West Bank were repeatedly demolished. Community members were subjected to settler violence and were eventually displaced. Israel condemned such settler attacks, with the Head of its Security Agency and its Police Commissioner referring to them as nationalist terrorism. Other senior Israeli figures called them pogroms. But condemnation is not enough.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  14. “The Committee seconds the plea of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights — for Israel to align its policies and actions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in East Jerusalem, with international human rights standards and humanitarian law. Such measures include safeguarding the right to life and fulfilling its obligations under international humanitarian law to maintain public order and safety. Increasing violence by armed settlers, working in coordination with Israel’s security forces, deserves the urgent attention of the Security Council. The settlers’ systematic attacks on Palestinian civilians and their raids on Palestinian villages, setting fire to dozens of homes and vehicles and agricultural fields, have intensified dramatically.”

    2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387 (2023) · source

  15. “Mr. Muhamad: The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People thanks the United Kingdom for its presidency of the Security Council this month and expresses appreciation for the briefing of the Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari. In recent weeks, Israel’s excessive use of force and deployment of heavy weaponry against densely populated civilian areas has caused Palestinian casualties, including children, as well as widespread destruction. The raid on the Jenin refugee camp on 19 June — the largest Israeli incursion in the West Bank in 20 years — triggered a cycle of violence, resulting in more than 12 Palestinian and 4 Israeli fatalities, and fuelled tensions in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”

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  16. “The people of Palestine can count on Malaysia’s unwavering support in their efforts to create an independent and sovereign State of Palestine, based on pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. In that regard, we fully support the application of Palestine to become a full member of the United Nations and call upon the Security Council and the General Assembly to favourably consider that legitimate application.”

    2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source

  17. “Malaysia, in that regard, calls on the international community not to condone such practice of double standards, which severely undermines the effectiveness and legitimacy of international law. It is incumbent upon the United Nations and the global community to provide protection to the Palestinian people from the heinous crimes that Israel continues to commit. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 77/247 adopted in December last year, Malaysia urges all responsible Member States to support the request for an advisory opinion on the question of Palestine from the International Court of Justice. In addition, Malaysia calls upon Member States to contribute on a consistent and predictable basis to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to support the financial needs of the Palestinian refugees.”

    2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source

  18. “Resolution 2334 (2016) is also clear on the fact that all Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law and must immediately and completely cease. Yet Israel remains defiant, which further deviates efforts towards achieving a peaceful and lasting two-State solution. It is extremely frustrating that the apartheid practices of Israel, including the annexation and illegal occupation, are routinely ignored. The impunity that Israel continues to enjoy is partly the failure of the Security Council to hold Israel accountable for the violations and brutality it perpetrates.”

    2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source

  19. “Malaysia strongly condemns the incursion of Israeli forces into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and their vicious attacks against worshippers, especially when Muslims were observing the holy month of Ramadan. Malaysia remains gravely concerned with the continued aggression and systematic oppression of the Palestinians through discriminatory policies, the denial of basic human rights, the imposition of harsh living conditions, as well as the confiscation of their lands and properties. In line with resolution 2334 (2016), our delegation urges both parties to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from acts of provocation, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric to avoid further escalation of tensions.”

    2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source

  20. “My delegation expresses its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. We welcome the presence of Mr. Riad Al-Malki, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine. We also extend our thanks to Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing. Malaysia aligns itself with the statement delivered by Mauritania on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the statement to be delivered by Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Indeed, what we have heard today is disturbing. Barely four months into the year, already almost 100 Palestinians, including innocent children, are reported to have died and hundreds more to have been wounded. The situation is showing no signs of abating.”

    2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source

  21. “The strength and value of such systems lie in their rules-based nature and their inclusivity, transparency and openness, based on mutual benefit and respect. In our view, the Secretary-General’s report Our Common Agenda (A/75/982) and its recommendations set forth the right visions and strategies for ensuring that the multilateral system can work in a coordinated manner in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It presents an opportunity for Member States to cooperate more effectively through common global platforms. Malaysia has always premised its foreign policy on constructive cooperation through multilateralism. In that regard, we will continue to work closely with all stakeholders through positive participation in various multilateral forums. The meeting rose at 5.50 p.m.”

    2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308Resumption1 (2023) · source

  22. “All of us Member States must remain united in our collective effort to uphold and respect the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as enshrined in its Charter. We must intensify our dialogue and cooperation for the purpose of safeguarding those principles and multilateralism. As prescribed in the Charter, the United Nations has been and remains at the forefront of various international and multilateral efforts to combat challenges and maintain international peace and security. Malaysia also reiterates its full support for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Declaration on Upholding Multilateralism, adopted at the thirty-eighth ASEAN Summit in 2021, and reaffirms its belief that regionalism and multilateralism are vital means for global cooperation.”

    2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308Resumption1 (2023) · source

  23. “The United Nations came into existence 78 years ago, envisioned as a guardian of international peace and security, a promoter of human rights, a protector of international law and an engineer for socioeconomic advancement. As the Charter of the United Nations stipulates, the common denominator is world peace. Yet the prevailing crises that we are witnessing today only confirm that multilateralism is tremendously threatened. To preserve the centrality of the United Nations as the bedrock of international cooperation, we need to defend and strengthen it to make it fit to confront increasingly complex global challenges. For those reasons, Malaysia firmly believes that it is in our collective interest to work together to uphold that system, which is based on our shared universal values.”

    2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308Resumption1 (2023) · source

  24. “At the outset, I would like to thank Russia, as President of the Security Council, for convening today’s open debate. Malaysia would also like to express its appreciation to the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, for his briefing (see S/PV.9308). Malaysia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The convening of this open debate is timely, as the world continues to be bitterly divided. Conflicts have proliferated and peace efforts have witnessed multiple failures. Suffering continues in places such as Palestine, Myanmar and Ukraine, to name but a few. Around the world there is growing hatred and mistrust, an increasing threat of extremism and terrorism, and the continued proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

    2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308Resumption1 (2023) · source