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Thomas-Greenfield

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2021-05-27
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  1. “Specifically, an effective humanitarian response requires the continued opening of the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings, the fast-track processing of humanitarian convoys and the unimpeded movement of relief and recovery supplies into Gaza. Let us work together to protect those conditions and help those in need. In addition, we need to promote progress and economic stability in both the West Bank and Gaza. We need to strengthen the private sector, and we need to expand trade and investment. As President Biden has said, Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely, to enjoy equal measures of freedom, opportunity and democracy and to be treated with dignity.”

    2021-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8782 (2021) · source

  2. “We will work closely with the United Nations, the Palestinian Authority and the other partners and will not — I repeat not — direct any assistance to Hamas. In addition, Secretary Blinken noted our intention to work with Congress to provide $75 million more in development and economic assistance in the West Bank and Gaza over the next year. Our aid will go far, but the needs, especially in Gaza, are vast. We call on the rest of the Council, as well as the international community, to support those efforts and provide humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable. As in every humanitarian emergency, funding and access are needed in equal measure.”

    2021-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8782 (2021) · source

  3. “The humanitarian need is great, and this is the moment to step up and meet it. Building on our March and April announcements of $250 million in United States assistance to the Palestinians, Secretary Blinken recently announced more than $38 million in new assistance to support humanitarian efforts in the West Bank and Gaza. That includes nearly $33 million to UNRWA in support of its West Bank and Gaza emergency operations and an additional $5.5 million in humanitarian assistance provided through the United States Agency for International Development. That life-saving aid will support humanitarian partners, which will use it to provide food, health care, relief items and emergency shelter to those displaced by the recent conflict. It will also provide mental health and psychosocial support for those who have experienced trauma.”

    2021-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8782 (2021) · source

  4. “Quiet, intensive, relentless diplomacy at the highest levels has brought a temporary end to the violence, and the United States is determined to continue that diplomacy to ensure that the calm holds. That is why President Biden sent Secretary Blinken to the region — to build on this ceasefire, to thank our partners and to foster stability and security. That starts by recognizing the tremendous human toll of the violence. Casualties are often reduced to numbers, but behind every number is a real person: a daughter, a son, a father, a mother, a grandparent, a friend, a human being. And beyond those killed are those who were wounded, be it physically or psychologically. For them we need to find a solution. Thoughts are not enough. We are committed to helping the recovery process.”

    2021-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8782 (2021) · source

  5. “I thank Mr. Wennesland for his thorough briefing and for all the work that his team has done to support the ceasefire efforts and to bring some calm to the situation in the past two weeks. I also thank Mr. Lazzarini for his update and for the life-saving work that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has undertaken in very challenging circumstances. I thank Mr. Khalidi for taking the time to share his opinions with the Security Council today. I thank the representatives of Israel and the Observer State of Palestine for joining us. I also want to start by thanking the Government of Egypt for working with us to achieve this ceasefire as well as the Governments of Jordan and Qatar and other partners that contributed through their good offices.”

    2021-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8782 (2021) · source