NEW YORK — On Wednesday, the UN Security
Council held an open meeting since the 15-member body passed a resolution in
mid-November, and the first where foreign ministers are weighing in. Briefing
top diplomats, the UN chief said the world must not look away from the
suffering of civilians in Gaza.
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During the meeting,
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the following:
* Israel deems the
Security Council's silence
on its aggression a shield for its crimes.
* The Israeli retaliatory aggression, still
wrongly justified by some as self-defense,
starkly violates international law,
which explicitly states that an occupier has no right to self-defense.
* This Israeli retaliation has claimed the
lives of fifteen thousand Palestinians in Gaza.
* This
massacre feeds the racist instincts of
certain Israelis who habitually deny the humanity of Palestinians. They have
turned their ministerial and parliamentary platforms into hubs of hatred,
launching policies of killing, displacement, hunger, violation of sacred
values, desecration of the right to life, dignity, and freedom for
Palestinians.
* Those truly seeking to protect their people
don't steal the lives of another people, arm settlers, and shield their
terrorism. Those pursuing security for their people don't colonize another
people's land,
imprison their children without trial, and show no mercy.
* The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
is the root cause of the conflict, the essence of evil. Its removal is the
path to security and the road to peace for Palestinians, Israelis, and all the
peoples of the region.
* As Arabs, in 2002, we presented a
comprehensive peace proposal for the well-being of both Palestinians and
Israelis. What has Israel offered, rejecting our peace initiative? Nothing but
the perpetuation of occupation.
* We request the Security Council to enforce a
ceasefire to end the aggression. We call on the international community to end
the occupation and stop the conflict.
* There is one path to the peace we all seek.
The
Security Council must adopt a binding resolution recognizing an independent
Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, based on the borders of
June 4, 1967.
* Occupation and peace are opposing forces.
Occupation and security are irreconcilable.
Mr. President,
Dear colleagues,
Thirty-three days have passed since I and
other colleagues requested a resolution imposing an end to Israeli aggression
on the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza Strip. No resolution has been
issued, and the aggression has not ceased; it has intensified, becoming more
brutal, bloody, and savage.
Israel considers the Council's silence on its
aggression as a cover for its crimes. It has stolen the lives of 3,750 more
Palestinian children since our meeting on the 25th of last month.
This brings the total number of children
killed by its aggression to 6,150, not counting those still buried under the
rubble and another sixty-one children who have perished since the start of the
aggression in the West Bank, the latest being Adam Samer Al-Ghoul (8 years old)
and Basal Suleiman Abu Al-Wafa (15 years old), killed by the occupation
yesterday.
Some of these children were killed by the
white phosphorus of the relentless occupier. Some died from diseases prevented
by Israel from reaching their medications. Others perished in the ruins of
homes destroyed by Israel's precision bombs.
Their blood is light. Their blood is a right.
This is the vengeful Israeli aggression that
some still justify as self-defense, a clear violation of international law,
which decisively states that an occupier has no right to self-defense.
This is the vengeance that has killed fifteen
thousand Palestinians in Gaza and has allowed only about 4,775 aid trucks to
enter since our last meeting. This is barely enough to cover the needs for
three and a half days during the thirty-eight days according to UNRWA
estimates, stating that the besieged Gaza Strip needs 800 aid trucks daily.
This massacre fuels the racist instincts of
some Israeli individuals who deny the humanity of Palestinians. They have
turned their ministerial and parliamentary platforms into platforms of hatred,
launching policies of killing, displacement, starvation, violation of sacred
values, desecration of their right to life, dignity, and freedom.
Those who genuinely want to protect their
people do not steal the lives of another people, arm settlers, and protect
their terrorism. Those who seek security for their people do not colonize
another people's land, imprison their children without trial, and show no
mercy.
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is the
root cause of the conflict, and it is the essence of evil. Its removal is the
path to security and the road to peace for Palestinians, Israelis, and all
peoples of the region.
Anyone who tells you that the conflict is
religious is lying, attempting to distort history and ignore the present, where
its brutality, exacerbated by occupation, challenges our shared humanity.
There is a conflict because there is
oppressive occupation, blatant injustice that stole an entire people's past,
destroyed its present, and besieged its future in the narrowness of its
repression and hatred.
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