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Rasheed

lines on the record: 22
first: 2016-08-02
most recent: 2019-08-02
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“This protection is essential for safeguarding their rights and promoting their well-being until an end is brought to this illegal occupation and the rights, freedoms, security and dignity of the Palestinian people are realized, beginning with our children.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Moreover, we call on the Special Representative to ensure that the report's section on Israel and the State of Palestine be placed in the prevailing context of military occupation, in order to ensure an accurate examination of the situation of our children, including ensuring that measures constituting collective punishment, in particular the Israeli blockade of Gaza, are not omitted in enumeration of the long list of violations against the children of Palestine. We will remain vigilant in calling upon the international community to uphold its obligations in that regard. We appeal to the Security Council and all States to shore up the political will and courage to act immediately and without selectivity to protect the lives of Palestinian children under Israeli occupation.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“The State of Palestine reiterates that, according to the established criteria and the thorough documentation available to the Security Council, including as reflected in its own consecutive reports, the perpetration of such violations and crimes warrants that Israel, its army and its settlers be put on the list of parties that commit grave violations against children. The absence of such inclusion continues to undermine the credibility of this list, exposing it to the criticism of politicization, and continues to be a missed opportunity to hold Israel accountable and to save the lives of Palestinian children.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Thousands more children and their families remain at risk of losing their homes and life belongings, deepening their fear, anxieties and hopelessness. Israeli raids and attacks on schools and closures of Palestinian educational institutions also continue. Moreover, humanitarian assistance to address protection needs continues to be impeded as a result of access and movement restrictions and other collective-punishment measures imposed by the occupation, most severely via its inhumane illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its thirteenth year and the cause ofimmense deprivation, suffering and isolation of Palestinian children. The foregoing is just a snapshot of the massive violations that continue to be perpetrated against Palestinian children by this belligerent, illegal occupation. There must be accountability for all these crimes.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Reports document that three out of four children experience physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation, with physical and psychological trauma that can only haunt them for the rest of their lives. Perhaps that is exactly the point of such policies by the occupying Power, as it attempts to damage and impair one generation after another with its unlawful, unethical and immoral policies and practices. Israel's illegal and depraved colonization of the Palestinian land and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people also continue to gravely impact our children. Its systematic and punitive demolition of homes has rendered thousands homeless and forcibly displaced hundreds of children and their families, among them Palestine refugees living the trauma of dispossession and displacement once again.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Settler violence and terror also continues to severely impact Palestinian children, including harassment and attacks on schoolchildren, all under the watch of the Israeli occupying forces and in grave breach of Israel's obligations as the occupying Power. Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years old, also continue to be arrested, brutally interrogated, detained and imprisoned by Israel, with several held under administrative detention for months and some for up to a year without charge. Since 2000, at least 10,000 Palestinian children have been arrested and prosecuted in an Israeli military detention system notorious for its systematic ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Yet, despite constant appeals and calls for protection, Palestinian children have been left unprotected, defenceless and vulnerable. In the reporting period, the United Nations verified the highest number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli occupying forces and settlers since the 2014 war on the Gaza Strip. This number includes babies as young as 18 months old. Moreover, over 2,700 Palestinian children were injured in 2018, including many permanently maimed and disabled, and the number of casualties has continued to rise in 2019, including as a result of intentional targeting of peaceful protesters by the occupying forces.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“We must act in ways that are consistent with the principles and commitments affirmed in this important resolution and in line with our collective obligations under international law. Such action cannot exclude efforts to address the continuing plight of Palestinian children. Denied their inalienable rights, the Palestinian people in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, have endured over a half-century of foreign occupation, with generations of children suffering grave breaches and human rights violations, as Israel, the occupying Power, persists with absolute impunity in its systematic perpetration of violations, including those considered among the six grave violations against children in armed conflict. This situation has been repeatedly attested to by United Nations agencies and international human rights organizations.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“The Secretary-General's annual report on children and armed conflict reflects in painful detail how children in situations of armed conflict continue to be subjected to the most appalling violations of their human rights. We regret the fact that 2018 was marked by the highest recorded number of children killed or maimed in armed conflict since the United Nations began monitoring and reporting this grave violation. The numbers are shocking and beyond unacceptable. Collectively we must do more. As this month marks ten years since resolution 1882 (2009) and as we approach the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international community must mobilize to resolve the conflicts and remedy the situations that continue to cause child casualties.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“At the outset, I wish to congratulate Poland on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and acknowledge its able leadership. I also wish to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs for convening today's important debate on children and armed conflict. This matter continues to be of the highest priority and urgency for the State of Palestine. We would also like to thank the Secretary-General Guterres for his report (S/2019/509). We are grateful to the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and the Executive Director ofUNICEF for their important briefings to the Council and their tireless advocacy for the protection and well-being of children. Their efforts and those of all relevant international civil servants and civil society to this end deserve our full support.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“They deserve to live in freedom, peace, dignity and security, which can be realized only when they are free from occupation and living in their own independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“We reiterate that the Palestinian people and their children cannot remain the exception to the responsibility to protect civilians from atrocities and flagrant breaches of the law, for they are not just statistics but human beings whose lives are being constantly shattered by a brutal occupier that proves over and over again its total disregard for the lives and rights of Palestinian children. Therefore, we call on the international community, including the Security Council, to uphold its responsibilities and provide the necessary assistance and protection to Palestinian children and hold accountable the violators of international law, especially those laws meant to protect children's rights. Palestinian children deserve more than a life marked by the daily fear and humiliation that comes with living under occupation.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“In addition, the 10-year illegal Israeli blockade - a repugnant form of collective punishment amounting to a war crime and the source of countless human rights violations - has persisted, deepening poverty, food insecurity, health problems and many other social and economic ills among children, including the fact that for the first time in five decades the infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen, as hospitals continue to lack adequate infrastructure, basic drugs and supplies due to Israeli restrictions. All of these violations must cease and Israel must be compelled to respect international law, for these crimes committed against our children are intolerable and unacceptable.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Moreover, more than 44,000 Palestinian children are still displaced as a result of their homes being destroyed by the occupying Power in its 2014 war on Gaza, in which grave violations, including war crimes, were committed before the eyes of the international community, without consequences for the occupying Power or justice served for the Palestinian people.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Attacks by the occupying Power on hospitals in the occupied State of Palestine also continued, despite the fact that hospitals, as well as schools, are afforded special protection under international humanitarian law. Palestinian children in the occupied Gaza Strip also continue to be victims of persistent violations of international law at the hands of the occupying Power. Children who managed to escape death or physical injury during the three wars on Gaza over a six-year span live with psychological effects that are severe and resounding. Many have lost one or two parents, and some have even lost their entire extended families.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Besides those violations, Israel, the occupying Power, continues with its systematic collective punishment of the entire Palestinian civilian population in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has gravely affected our children. One example of that is the occupying Power's continued unlawful practice of punitive home demolitions, which have rendered hundreds of children and their families homeless. The report also notes that attacks on schools and protected personnel, and a pervasive environment of violence, harassment and intimidation by the occupying Power, continued to have an impact on Palestinian children's access to education.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Moreover, settler violence and terror against Palestinians, including children, under the protection and watch of the Israeli occupying forces, continue unabated. The report notes that there were at least 20 cases of settler attacks that resulted in injury to Palestinian children. This includes the terrorist attack on 31 July 2015, when settler terrorists burned the Dawabshe family home in the occupied West Bank village of Duma, killing 18-month-old baby Ali and fatally injuring his parents. Ali's 4-year-old brother Ahmad, who suffered severe burns, is the only survivor and was only released from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility just last week.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“In addition to the killing of those children, we would also like to share that, since October 2015, more than 2,600 children have also been injured, many severely, owing to Israel's use of live ammunition against unarmed and defenceless Palestinian children. The report before us also notes an increased number of Palestinian children who were arrested and detained by Israeli occupying forces during the reporting period, including many who are currently being held under administrative detention. In occupied East Jerusalem alone, 860 Palestinian children were arrested, including 136 between 7 and 11 years of age, under the age of criminal responsibility. It must be recalled that most, if not all, children held in Israeli prisons or detention centres are subjected to various forms of psychological and physical torture.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“In fact, not only did violations by Israel against Palestinian children continue, but since October 2015 they have intensified as the occupying forces have unleashed a new wave of aggression, provocation and incitement against the entire Palestinian civilian population, including children. Tragically, since then, more than 40 Palestinian children have been killed, many of whom in extrajudicial executions. As noted by the report and verified by many international human rights organizations, Israeli occupying forces resorted to the excessive use of force and unlawful killings despite the fact that there were no indications that the children killed posed an imminent or immediate threat to Israeli occupying forces.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“For nearly half a century, the Palestinian people and their children living under Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, have endured appalling levels of human suffering as their rights have been violently denied and international humanitarian law has continued to be trampled on by Israel, the occupying Power. Unprotected, despite the very clear provisions of international law according protection to civilians under foreign occupation, Palestinian children continue to be killed, injured and terrorized by the occupying Power with complete impunity. The Secretary- General's report clearly reflects that.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“However, today, as validated by the speakers in this debate, the world faces new and grave challenges in connection with the protection of children affected by armed conflict. As such, the devastating impact and the long-lasting consequences for millions of children must warrant an immediate and serious response by the international communit - or rather, a renewed call to action - in order to overcome the unprecedented and persisting challenges facing children. The report (S/2016/360) of the Secretary-General before us today directly links the increased intensity of grave violations in a number of situations of armed conflict to the denigration of respect for international humanitarian and human rights law. We could not agree more with his assessment.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency this month and thank you for convening this important debate on children and armed conflict. This matter continues to be ofthe highest priority and urgency for the State of Palestine. I would also like tojoin others in thanking Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake for their briefings this morning. Without any doubt, the call to action made in Graca Machel's 1996 report (see A/51/306) and the efforts made thereafter by the international community have contributed to notable successes and achievements in the areas of children's rights and the protection of children affected by armed conflict.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source