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Wed 27 Sep 2023 8:04 am - Jerusalem Time

Representative of Palestine at UN sends identical messages to UN bodies on Israel’s violations

Today, the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Minister Riyad Mansour, sent three identical letters to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council for this month (Albania), and the President of the United Nations General Assembly, regarding Israel’s impunity in the absence of accountability. .


Mansour began his messages by referring to the speech of the Israeli Prime Minister, on September 22, before the General Assembly, and the map that he waved before the international community, and he is completely confident that there will be no protest against his complete erasure of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian state, which is considered clear evidence of Israel’s colonial plans. Illegal policies of ethnic cleansing and annexation in the Palestinian territory that it has illegally occupied for more than 56 years.


In this context, Mansour expressed the State of Palestine’s condemnation of this provocative and hateful speech, calling on the international community to condemn Israel’s racist distortion of the Palestinian people and deprive them of their original existence for centuries.


He stressed that the time has come for all countries committed to the rule of law and human rights to take the necessary measures to ensure that Israel, the occupying power, is held accountable for all its grave violations in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and to impose sanctions for the war crimes and crimes against humanity that it commits against the people. Palestinian.


Mansour also pointed out that the past weeks have witnessed continuous attacks by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against the Palestinian people, noting that in one week, eight Palestinians, including children, were martyred during military attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in addition to the injury of dozens of civilians, including 30 Palestinians were injured on September 19 in another Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp. In this regard, Mansour referred to the martyrdom of Milad Munther Wajih Al-Rai (15 years old), at the entrance to the Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron on September 10, and the martyrdom of a 25-year-old young man on September 19, near the Israeli border fence around the Gaza Strip, to In addition, at least 33 Palestinians were injured in the demonstrations that broke out 11 days ago throughout the Gaza Strip against the illegal siege imposed by Israel.


He also noted that on the same day, four Palestinians were also martyred in a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp; The martyrs are: Mahmoud Ali Nafi’ al-Saadi (23 years old), Mahmoud Khaled Arawi (24 years old), Atta Yasser Atta Musa (29 years old), and Raafat Omar Ahmed Khamaysa (15 years old).


Mansour also referred to the martyrdom of Dirgham al-Akhras (19 years old), in another raid on the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, on September 20, and to the martyrdom of Abd al-Rahman Suleiman Abu Daghash (32 years old) and Usaid Abu Ali (21 years old). During a large-scale pre-dawn military attack on Nour al-Shams refugees, east of Tulkarm, on September 23.


Mansour also pointed out that education in Palestine is still subject to attacks by occupation soldiers and settlers in the campaign of intimidation and harassment against students, noting that the recent period has witnessed obstruction of students’ access to schools, attacks on educational facilities, and the continued demolition of schools, which violates the right. In education and other human rights, noting that on September 21, the occupation forces raided Al-Eizariya Primary School for Girls in occupied East Jerusalem, and stormed the Birzeit University campus on September 24.


Mansour called on the international community to condemn such attacks and work to protect the right of Palestinian children and youth to education.

He also noted that settlers continued to attack Palestinian civilians, their property, and holy places, which led to the injury of a young man with disabilities, a woman, and a four-year-old child, noting that settler terrorism led to the forced displacement of the civilian population in the occupied Palestinian territory, in addition to their continued incursions. to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, the latest of which was yesterday, September 26, in a serious violation of the current historical and legal status of this sacred site.


At the conclusion of his messages, Mansour stressed the need to make immediate efforts to demand that Israel, the occupying power, stop these dangerous provocations and fully respect the historical and legal status quo in the holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem, including what is stipulated in countless resolutions. United Nations, including Resolution 2334.


He once again called on the international community to take urgent measures to demand accountability for all these crimes, to put an end to this illegal and inhumane situation, and for the Palestinian people to realize their inalienable human rights.

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Representative of Palestine at UN sends identical messages to UN bodies on Israel’s violations