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Nusseibeh

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“From what we know of their lives and dreams and aspirations documented over the past months by brave journalists and ordinary people, they did not want to grow up to become Hamas, nor did they ask to become the front line against Israel’s formidable military arsenal. In Israel, too, parents have grieved the unfathomable trauma of children taken hostage by Hamas into the Gaza Strip. The 7 October attack on Israel also brought horrific reports to the world of the killing of innocent civilians and torture and sexual violence against women. They were rightly condemned and must be investigated, with the perpetrators held accountable. Trauma has unleashed trauma in its response.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“That includes strikes on sites shielded by the laws of war, such as schools, hospitals and refugee camps. History shows that women and children are disproportionately impacted by conflict, and Gaza is no exception. In the past 47 days, children have become orphans, mothers have become childless, and intergenerational families have been wiped out altogether by the largest indiscriminate aerial bombardment we have witnessed in the recent history of warfare. It therefore cannot come as a surprise to anyone that more than two thirds of the approximately 14,000 Palestinian fatalities are women and children. Many of those killed were teachers, journalists and doctors, or children who were aspiring to become like those adults one day.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“I thank Executive Director Bahous, Executive Director Russell and Executive Director Kanem for their painful briefings. They highlight the critical turning point we have reached in Israel’s 47-day war on Gaza, which followed the 7 October attacks by Hamas on Israel, and the grave choices that lie before Israel in its prosecution of the war. Just for a sense of scale, the war is taking place in a small yet highly populated area. Its largest city, Gaza City, is more densely populated than New York. That tiny area is home to families who have spent decades trying to build normal lives as a community, despite repeated wars and displacement and amid an ongoing blockade. Within the 25-mile-long strip, 12,000 locations have already been subjected to air strikes, according to the Israeli Government.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“It is critical to ensure their engagement in the national strategies and measures aimed at building resilience to guarantee the stable, prosperous and peaceful societies that we talk about here every day. The full, equal and meaningful participation of women is part and parcel of nation-building, and all our efforts for security and stability must centre around that inclusion. It is a collective responsibility. The international community must ensure that development programmes mitigate climate, economic and social vulnerabilities in its pursuit of promoting peace and security.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“Those will also be an integral part of discussions at COP 28. However, we also need a quantum leap in climate financing. Expanding access to special drawing rights, for example, could free up $500 billion in climate finance for the most vulnerable countries. For its part, the United Arab Emirates has pledged $4.5 billion in financing by 2030 for African climate projects. Ultimately, sustainable development and peacebuilding go hand in hand. Supporting those efforts now is much more cost-effective than paying the price of conflict later. Thirdly, our policies, whether on development or peace and security, must be inclusive. It is simple: inclusive societies thrive. Every day that women and youth are excluded from development is a day that we hold ourselves back in the pursuit of our shared prosperity, peace and security goals.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“We cannot expect peace if we do not invest in it. There is no question that the current international financial architecture is not keeping pace with the challenges of the twenty-first century, and it is increasingly, in fact, acting as a barrier to development. We need to ensure that developing countries have access to low-cost, long- term financing and that the needs of the most vulnerable countries are front and centre of our considerations, including for building the resilience needed for climate change. This does require bold decisions on a reform of the international financial architecture approach. The United Arab Emirates welcomes the various reform initiatives that have been discussed on reform of the international financial institutions to date, including the Bridgetown Initiative.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“We hope to see similar reporting requests in other mandate renewals when appropriate. In a little more than a week, the United Arab Emirates will host the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28), where we are organizing a first-of-its-kind relief, recovery and peace day. It will highlight the intersection of climate change, peace and security with a political spotlight on the importance of increasing climate funding to the communities on the front lines of the climate crisis that are also experiencing conflict and fragility. We have a window of opportunity to integrate climate action and development, and it will be critical to seize the moment. Secondly, as others have said, we must ensure sustainable and equitable access to finance, which is key.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“First of all, we accept that the science is clear. The relationship between vulnerability, climate change and armed conflict can form a destructive cycle and should be addressed as such. It is a daily lived reality in many conflict settings around the world. Of the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change, 15 are classified by the World Bank as fragile or affected by conflict. The Council should embrace innovative approaches in order to see conflicts through a climate-sensitive lens and do better to address the problem. We welcome the Council’s foresight in including in resolution 2677 (2023) a request that the Secretary-General incorporate analysis of the risks associated with climate change that could adversely impact peace and security in South Sudan in his reporting on the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“We see it time and again on issues on the Council’s agenda, from the Sahel to the Middle East. Without developing an agile United Nations response plan that factors in economic livelihoods, social inclusion and resilience strategies alongside robust political frameworks, we are always going to be plastering over the underlying peace and security issues. Investing in development pays the dividends of peace, yet the latest scorecards for the Sustainable Development Goals show us that we are far from the desired results, as only 15 per cent of the targets are on track and 48 per cent are moderately or severely off track. If we are indeed convinced of the links that we are confidently discussing here today, a radical change in approach is needed. The United Arab Emirates would like to make three recommendations today to that effect.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“I would like to thank the Secretary-General, Ms. Rousseff and Mr. Sachs for their invaluable briefings today. The United Arab Emirates thanks China for bringing this important topic to the Security Council’s attention. China’s leadership on sustainable development and its impact on peace and security has made a difference worldwide, spearheading global initiatives that have led to significant investments and enabled Governments to overcome structural obstacles to development while promoting equality, stability and prosperity at scale. Poverty and inequality exacerbate the fragility and vulnerability of countries and can lead to instability and conflict. The erosion of the social fabric of communities can be exploited by actors with violent agendas.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“For Israel, for the Palestinians, the brutal logic that the occupation has forced on its victims and its perpetrators over the long history of the conflict has really brought us to this desperate point of crisis. The fact is Israel does have an absolute right to security and peace, free from the attacks that we saw on 7 October, but so does a future Palestine. Israel’s security — genuine and lasting — will remain elusive if it is built on the continued denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination. Any policy that seeks to obscure that fact is doomed to failure.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“If the parties violate the resolution, we expect and will work to ensure that the Security Council will step in to support its implementation. But looking ahead and beyond working for a more permanent ceasefire, the Security Council — collectively and individually — must prioritize resolving the conflict. Over the past decade, there have been increasingly vocal warnings and signs that the two-State solution is on its deathbed. What emerges from the ruins of Gaza may be our last chance to save it. However, it will need all of us to continue working together, like we have done here today, to resurrect it. The fate of peace and security in our region is a shared responsibility and not the burden of a few.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“International law, especially the rules of war, binds all the parties to this conflict. There can be no equivocation on that point. Israel must cease its attacks on civilians and civilian objects. It must uphold the special protections afforded by international law to hospitals and schools, and it must ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian access. In that context, we reiterate our condemnation of Israel’s raid on Al Shifa Hospital in the past 24 hours and other attacks on hospitals. We stress that it is precisely that type of military action that today’s resolution rejects. Hospitals are sacrosanct spaces that must be protected. We have all seen countless unbearable messages of despair from medical workers in those hospitals who have stayed and are pleading for their patients to be protected.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“For the United Arab Emirates, the resolution will enable our humanitarian efforts on the ground — for example our undertaking to receive 1,000 Palestinian children and their families for medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates. That work has already begun, and we hope to receive the first group within the coming week. It will also be vital to our establishment of an emergency field hospital in the Gaza Strip. We urge all Member States, as well as the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, to utilize the resolution in their efforts to scale up assistance, and to come back to the Council if they need additional support. It is vital to ensure that the Council now lives up to its responsibilities, including for seeing that the resolution is implemented in full.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“However, I want to emphasize that today’s resolution is only the beginning of our response to the war and to the crisis. Too much time has passed, too many people have been killed and too much destruction has been wrought. It is worth noting here that in places where Hamas is not operating, Palestinians are nonetheless losing their lives on land internationally recognized as part of their future State. During this period — the past 40 days — it has gone largely underreported that almost 200 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank as a result of settler violence and raids. That must stop, and Israel must hold those who are committing those attacks fully accountable.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“The United Arab Emirates welcomes the Council’s adoption of resolution 2712 (2023) today — its first on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict since 2016. It is crucial that the Council has come together around the urgent need to protect civilians, especially children. We recognize that the vote and its outcome were possible only after difficult negotiations and compromises made on all sides. As the Arab member of the Council, we want to again recognize Malta’s leadership, but also the commitment by each and every Council member to the product. Over the past week, I have seen all of us work together across our geographical divides in a way that made this moment possible, for which I thank my colleagues. I believe lives will be saved because of our work.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“However, the United Arab Emirates remains resolute that we must work towards a lasting humanitarian ceasefire. We must not lose sight of that urgent goal.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“Through this text, the Council also rejects the forced displacement of Palestinians, which is essential — two thirds of the population in Gaza are Palestinian refugees who have already suffered from the consequences of forced displacement in their past. Once again, in the past 40 days, nearly 80 per cent of those living in Gaza have been uprooted again. Finally, with the call in this draft resolution for the Secretary-General to bring options to the Council for the monitoring and reporting mechanisms in this text, we can aid the intention of this draft resolution to create the space needed for humanitarian actors to do their work. This draft resolution is a first, important and overdue step by the Council. It is for those reasons that we will vote in favour of the draft resolution, which also has the support of the Group of Arab States.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“The draft resolution means, in real time, enough time and space for search- and-rescue operations to save those children who are buried under the rubble, including the 1,500 who have been reported missing there. It means that fuel, food, water, medicine and other essential goods can be delivered at scale. It means that sick and injured children can be evacuated. These extended pauses will also help reach those held hostage, particularly children, whose unconditional release this draft resolution calls for. In addition, the text is unequivocal in its demand that all parties to the conflict comply with their obligations under international law.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“The protection of children has been the North Star that has guided the Council’s approach on this draft and brings us together today to vote on the text before us. As Ambassador Vanessa Frazier has just said, the key elements of this draft resolution and what they mean in practice for the people of Gaza must not be underestimated — for the children and other Palestinians sheltering from the hostilities, for the Israeli children and others still held hostage and for United Nations humanitarian and medical workers who are risking their lives to help alleviate the enormous humanitarian suffering on the ground. This text is also what humanitarian actors have consistently called for as the bare minimum for them to be able to do their life-saving work.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“The war on Gaza has raged for 40 days. While we have held several meetings, heard devastating briefings and seen heart-wrenching reporting, the Council has been unable to produce anything that would alleviate the suffering of the civilians in Gaza. Outside this building and in our region, in particular, the Council appears indifferent to the carnage and dismissive of the suffering. We thank Malta and its team for their extraordinary efforts. Thanks to those efforts and with our full support, as the Arab member on the Council, today we have an opportunity to begin changing that perception. Draft resolution S/2023/876 is born from the idea that we must come together now to act under one fundamental common aim.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9479 (2023) · source
“The Committee strengthened its engagement with parliamentarians, civil society organizations, the private sector and academia within the framework of its various activities and events. In its resolution 2617 (2021), the Council decided to conduct by 31 December an interim review of the mandate of CTED, a special political mission. The Committee will be assisting the Council in its review and will continue to provide policy guidance to CTED on enhancing its operation and functionality. In closing, I would like to express my thanks to the CTED Executive Director, Assistant Secretary-General Natalia Gherman, for her leadership, as well as her team and the Committee secretariat for the support they have provided to the Chair and the Committee over the past year.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“They included an open briefing on countering terrorist narratives highlighting the latest trends, such as the impact of artificial intelligence, and emphasized preventive measures, as mandated by the Council. CTED’s analytic products, which are informed by its close cooperation with the member entities of its global research network, have helped raise the awareness of the Council, the Committee and Member States concerning emerging terrorism trends and threats. The Committee has also continued to address the human rights and gender aspects of counter-terrorism. We want to remind Member States that any measures taken to counter terrorism must comply with all their obligations under international law, including international human rights law, international refugee law and international humanitarian law.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“They include the development of recommendations and non-binding guiding principles covering the three significant areas in which emerging technologies are experienced — that is, in rapid development, in their growing use by Member States for security and counter-terrorism efforts and in the increased risk they present through exploitation by terrorists, specifically through information and communications technologies, new payment technologies for fundraising and unmanned aircraft systems. Over the past year, the Committee has held four open and closed briefings on regional and thematic topics to address the interests and concerns of Member States on counter-terrorism.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“CTED, serving as Chair, co-Chair or Vice-Chair of several working groups of the Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, continues to work closely with UNOCT, UNODC and other relevant United Nations entities to ensure that their technical assistance achieves specific and measurable impact and results for the Member States they assist. The third key area has been the continued promotion of Member States’ implementation efforts. Since the Committee’s adoption of the Delhi Declaration on 29 October 2022, at a special meeting on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes, it has undertaken the tasks set forth in the Declaration.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“The Committee regularly receives briefings from UNOCT and UNOCT observers and attends CTED’s briefings to the Committee on Member State assessment visits, while UNODC has participated in most of CTED’s visits to Member States. The high- priority technical-assistance needs identified during the Committee’s assessment visits, in addition to several visit reports, are posted on the Global Counter- Terrorism Coordination Compact portal for access by relevant United Nations implementing partners. In that regard, CTED has been working closely with UNOCT to update the database of recommendations and improve its functionality.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“They also help produce quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform the relevant policy decisions of the Committee and the Council. In that regard, the Committee and the other Security Council subsidiary bodies have continued to work closely together in accordance with their respective mandates. The second area has been the facilitation of technical assistance to Member States. The Committee and CTED have maintained their close cooperation and coordination with the Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), together with a wide range of other United Nations entities and regional and bilateral stakeholders.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“The first is the assessment of Member States’ implementation efforts. Acting on the Committee’s behalf, CTED has conducted eight visits this year, bringing the total number conducted since 2005 to precisely 200 and the total number of States visited to 117. The visits have continued to provide an effective mechanism for direct and constructive engagement and dialogue between the Committee, CTED and Member States, and remain a critical component of the Committee’s assessment process. The Committee also continued its stocktaking work with the enhanced assessment and stocktaking tool, the electronic detailed implementation survey and the revised overview of implementation assessment. These tools are designed to ensure continued thoroughness, consistency and transparency during desk reviews and stocktaking assessments.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“As technologies have become cheaper and easier to access, terrorist groups have become increasingly adept at exploiting them, including by planning and conducting attacks with unmanned aircraft systems. Acts of terror, motivated by xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion or belief, are increasing in some Member States, often perpetrated by lone actors that are preemptively challenging detection and identification. With the support of CTED, the Committee has continued to engage with Member States, United Nations entities, international and regional organizations, academia and civil society organizations to assist Member States in addressing those threats and challenges in accordance with the relevant Council resolutions on terrorism. In doing so, the Committee has focused on three key areas of work.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“Mrs. Nusseibeh: As Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism, I have the honour to brief the Council on key aspects of the work of the Committee, supported by the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). The past year has seen a continued evolution of threats and challenges posed by terrorist activities across the globe. The terrorist threat from Da’esh and Al-Qaida, respectively, remains concentrated in conflict zones, where fragilities are more easily exploited, even though counter-terrorism measures have effectively been mitigating their activities elsewhere. Their respective terrorist activities in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have become more decentralized and are often framed by local dynamics.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“The programme includes a comprehensive list of the Committee’s planned activities to support full implementation of the requirements of resolution 1540 (2004) by all Member States. The activities take place in the areas of outreach by the Committee, the Committee’s assistance mechanism, cooperation with international, regional and subregional organizations, and transparency. The three Committees will continue to cooperate and coordinate their work under their respective mandates, including through joint visits at the invitation of Member States. This will ensure an effective and efficient approach to counter- terrorism and to preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their means of delivery and related materials by non-State actors.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“This includes raising awareness and assisting Member States to establish appropriate domestic controls to prevent the illicit trafficking of these items. The Monitoring Team also joined CTED to lead awareness-raising efforts with Member States regarding the enhanced implementation of travel ban measures. This includes the effective usage of the 1267 and 1988 sanctions lists, along with the INTERPOL Special Notices, advance passenger information and passenger name record systems and national watchlists. As such, the twentieth programme of work of the 1540 Committee, covering the period from 1 February 2023 to 31 January 2024, was submitted to the Security Council on 16 February 2023.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“This includes the Monitoring Team’s participation in the CTED-Naif Arab University for Security Sciences high-level seminar and their joint briefing of a delegation of jurists and academics from Bangladesh about the terrorism threat in South and South-East Asia, facilitated by the United States State Department. Since the last joint statement, experts of the Monitoring Team have attended CTC briefings. We will be circulating the list of them to all Council members. Sixthly, the Monitoring Team, CTED and the 1540 Group of Experts have been engaged in awareness- raising efforts on the growing threat of non-State actors developing, acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, related materials and dual-use items for terrorist purposes.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“CTED also consulted with the Monitoring Team as it prepared its thematic summary assessment of gaps in implementing key provisions of relevant Security Council resolutions on countering the financing of terrorism, prepared annually pursuant to resolution 2462 (2019), paragraph 35. CTED and the Monitoring Team participated in project teams, attended working group and plenary meetings of the Financial Action Task Force, and provided consolidated inputs on ISIL/Da’esh and Al-Qaida financing. Fifthly, cooperation has taken place within the framework of the Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact working groups, some of which are chaired by CTED. In their dialogue with Member States, Monitoring Team and CTED experts have partnered on seminars, workshops and expert briefings.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“In 2023, experts of CTED and the Monitoring Team cooperated closely in the drafting of the mandated sixteenth and seventeenth reports of the Secretary- General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat (S/2023/76 and S/2023/568). In the wake of the Counter-Terrorism Committee’s special meeting held in October 2022 in New Delhi, the Monitoring Team has continued to collaborate with CTED experts following the adoption of the Delhi Declaration. Monitoring Team experts have contributed to consultations held by CTED to facilitate the drafting of the non-binding guiding principles on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“A Monitoring Team expert participated in the side event on “The nexus between organized crime and terrorism in the Americas”, co-organized by CTED, the Organization of American States, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations. Experts from the Monitoring Team and CTED also partnered in the side event organized by the Permanent Missions of Canada and Spain and Princeton University on “Tackling the multiplicity of security challenges in Taliban-run Afghanistan and neighbouring countries: terrorism, organized crime, human rights and humanitarian assistance”. Fourthly, experts have contributed to the reporting.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“CTED also shared its monthly activities reports and CTC monthly bulletin on its visit schedule with the Monitoring Team and Group of Experts, to keep them abreast of CTED outreach activities. CTED, the Monitoring Team and the 1540 Group of Experts continue to meet regularly at the working level to take stock of the latest developments in their respective mandates and to identify further possible areas of cooperation. This includes quarterly briefings during which the Monitoring Team Coordinator provides an update on the terrorism threat. Thirdly, collaboration has taken place on events. The Monitoring Team and CTED collaborated on two side events during the third Counter-Terrorism Week, in June.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“CTED, the Monitoring Team and the 1540 Group of Experts continued to exchange information on issues related to the mandates of the three Committees prior to and after country visits, including when experts of the Monitoring Team and 1540 Group of Experts were unable to join the respective assessment teams. It has become practice for the Monitoring Team and the 1540 Group of Experts to discuss threat assessments related to individuals and organizations listed under the 1267 and 1988 sanctions regimes, as well as those designated on national sanction lists in line with resolution 1373 (2001). The Executive Director of CTED met regularly in 2023 with the coordinators of the Monitoring Team and 1540 Group of Experts.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“An expert from the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1526 (2004) and 2253 (2015) participated in the visits to Canada and Ecuador and provided advice to the delegations visiting Benin and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Monitoring Team’s participation in CTC assessment visits is invaluable in assisting the CTC to better evaluate the threats posed by terrorism and to identify gaps. The Monitoring Team’s advice also helps to inform the development of tailor-made capacity-building priorities for Member States, technical assistance providers and implementing partners. Secondly, an important aspect of the work over the past year has been information exchange.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“First, with respect to cooperation visits, in 2023 the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) visited Benin, Canada, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Jordan, the Republic of Korea and Spain on behalf of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). These CTC visits enable the Security Council to monitor, promote and facilitate the implementation of relevant counter-terrorism resolutions by all Member States. They allow the CTC to evaluate the threat of terrorism at the national and subregional levels, as well as identify progress, strengths, gaps and good practices, including the delivery of technical assistance.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“Mrs. Nusseibeh: On behalf of the Chairs of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism and the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), I have the honour to deliver a joint statement on cooperation between the three Committees. Over the past year, the three subsidiary bodies have coordinated their work to strengthen approaches to counter-terrorism and to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery by non-State actors. Today I will detail the form this work has taken.”
2023-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9478 (2023) · source
“It is the only solution that will take us out of the cycle of hatred, violence and dehumanization again and again and again.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“At the bare minimum, we need to activate all possible tools, including sustained and multi-day humanitarian pauses or truces, not least to end the suffering of children. That can also enable a humanitarian surge, the safe movement of civilian and aid workers and conditions for access to, and the safe release of hostages. That is fundamental for the necessary goal: a durable and sustained ceasefire. It is unconscionable that it has been 33 days of the destruction of Gaza without any Council action or response. It is time to act and to respond to help save innocent lives and to ensure that the violence ends once and for all. The two-State solution must be the overarching goal. The international community must reiterate its unwavering support for that goal.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“Indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects are prohibited by the laws of war. That simply cannot be part of any military strategy, defensive or otherwise. There is no State that would be condoned for conducting a military operation under those terms. Israel must end its siege of Gaza and reinstate essential services and the supply of items indispensable to civilian survival, including fuel, electricity and water. It is no longer enough to simply demand humanitarian access. While we must continue to call for compliance with the basic rules of international humanitarian law, as a matter of conscience — as many have said — we all know that, without accountability or enforcement, that will never happen.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“To help alleviate the suffering, the United Arab Emirates is establishing a field hospital in Gaza, working in solidarity with Gaza’s medical personnel and in cooperation with Israel. But it is a plaster on a fracture. There can be no doubt that the attacks by Israel in pursuit of its security are disproportionate. They are cruel. And they are inhumane. And we condemn them. Also, they will not bring Israel security. So many lives are being lost without even achieving that aim. We must also not forget that those held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, many of them children, are also suffering under the same bombardment and psychological trauma. They must be released immediately. We are witnessing the making of a lost generation of children and youth physically and mentally scarred by those experiences.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“Here is what that actually means: babies, children and elderly persons who are seeking refuge and care in those facilities are also under attack. There are over 110,000 patients, including children, suffering from burns to their faces so severe that they are suffocating, with no access to antibiotics or burn cream. Women are giving birth in the most unsanitary conditions known to humankind, without medicines, and Caesarean sections are being performed without anaesthesia. The perverse reality of the situation in Gaza is that wounds inflicted by the most technologically advanced weaponry of the twenty-first century are being treated in conditions that are reminiscent of medieval times.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“Born in Al Shifa Hospital on 6 October is Talia, whose fragile heartbeat depends on a mechanical ventilator, straining generators and a dwindling fuel supply. With the strike on the hospital last night and reports of the desperate evacuation on foot, as we speak here today in the Council, I cannot even begin to imagine what has happened to Talia. But we must not turn away from these stories. Like Talia, there are 130 other premature babies who are reliant on incubators to breathe. They are also reliant on our work here in the Chamber, as well as in our region. As we called for this meeting yesterday, little did we know that, by the evening, a terrifying barrage of targeted attacks would be launched on schools and hospitals.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“On 10 October, she was designing a poster for breast cancer awareness when the windows started shaking and everything turned black. An Israeli air strike levelled her home, pinning her legs under the wreckage and leaving barely enough oxygen to breathe. Hours later, Alaa’s relatives and rescue workers pulled her from the rubble. They also recovered the lifeless bodies of her mother, her brother and her nephew. There are many stories like hers. I feel the need to remind the Council that, like Alaa, every single one of the 2,650 people currently trapped under rubble are human beings, and that more than half of them are children. But they are not just children — they are Palestine’s future, and they are also Israel’s future neighbours. We should spare no effort to protect them and save both peoples from the road of war that we are on.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source
“Just moments ago, many of us received messages from medical and humanitarian organizations about the heavy fighting around Al Shifa Hospital. Medical staff tell us that they fear for their lives and the lives of their patients. They do not know if they will make it to morning. It sometimes feels that, by dealing only with the numbers from the conflict, we are indeed denying the humanity of those suffering. While it is impossible for us to go through the thousands of stories in today’s meeting, I want to put a couple of faces to those numbers — not of Hamas fighters, but normal people. Israel may be at war with Hamas, but those paying the price of the war are civilians in their thousands. Let me start with Alaa Zaheer Ahmed, who is in her third year of medical school. She grew up in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.”
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“I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for leading us in a moment of silence for the lives lost in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. By now we have all heard the acronym coined by health workers in Gaza: “WCNSF”, which stands for “wounded child, no surviving family”. I just want to let that sink in as we discuss today’s topic. I want to pay tribute to both Mr. Ghebreyesus and Mr. Jilani not only for making time to brief the Security Council, but also for the life-saving work they and their teams do on the ground in very difficult circumstances. Their clarion call to the Council today must be heeded. Today I also want to pay tribute to the silent heroes in the medical community in Gaza who stayed behind to deliver life-saving assistance despite the horrific circumstances.”
2023-11-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9472 (2023) · source