Yesterday, Monday, the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations , Minister Riyad Mansour , sent three identical messages to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council for this month (Russia), and the President of the United Nations General Assembly.

The messages dealt with the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day , which is celebrated by the Palestinian people on April 17 of each year, noting that Israel, the occupying power, has arrested more than 800,000 Palestinians since its aggressive military occupation of the Palestinian land in 1967, and that to this day, there are Approximately 5,000 Palestinians, including 31 women and 170 children, are arbitrarily and illegally detained in Israeli prisons and subjected to the worst forms of inhumane treatment, including violent interrogation, administrative detention, physical and psychological ill-treatment, and solitary confinement, in addition to unsanitary conditions, medical neglect, collective punishment, and torture. .

In this context, Mansour stressed the need for urgent attention to the plight of Palestinian prisoners, including those on hunger strike and the sick, calling on the international community, especially the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to assume their responsibilities to ensure that Israel, the occupying power, respects its obligations in this regard. connection, reiterating his call for the release of all Palestinian prisoners held by the Israeli occupation.

Mansour also indicated that Israel continued to suppress Palestinian worshipers and violate freedom of religion, as the Israeli occupation forces obstructed the peaceful celebrations of Easter in occupied Palestine, and brutally beat Palestinian worshipers and Christian believers while they were trying to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in occupied East Jerusalem to celebrate the Holy Saturday, violating Once again the historical and legal status quo in the Holy Places of Jerusalem. In addition to revoking the permits granted to 700 Palestinian Christians from Gaza to attend the Easter celebrations in Jerusalem, and imposing access restrictions that church leaders considered "unreasonable and unprecedented", in addition to vandalizing and damaging the property of churches and Christian cemeteries, and insulting nuns, clergy and worshipers. Christians by extremist Israeli groups.

Mansour also referred to the continuation of the Israeli occupation forces’ attacks on Muslim worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Noble Sanctuary, noting that the escalation of attacks and repression against Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the city reveals Israel’s agenda to Judaize the city, exclude other religions, and change the demographic composition, status and character of occupied East Jerusalem, with the aim of imposing its sovereignty by force over the city it illegally occupies.

Mansour also noted that extremist settlers continue to raid Palestinian cities and villages, intimidate and attack Palestinian civilians, including children, and destroy Palestinian property, agricultural crops and orchards.

In conclusion, Mansour stressed that the international community must demand that Israel stop its attacks and assaults on Palestinian civilians, including worshipers, and stop its military raids, including on our holy places, and stop settler violence and terror, and renewed his call to the Security Council and all countries to work urgently to protect The Palestinian people and take effective accountability measures to press for an end to this illegal colonial occupation and apartheid regime, and to ensure the Palestinian people realize their right to self-determination and all their inalienable rights.