If the Israeli assault stopped today and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the past eight months, it would take us nearly 100 years to honour them all. The Council adopted only a week ago a resolution on the protection of United Nations and humanitarian per…
Gaza will haunt the conscience of the world long after this genocide stops, and stop it must — now. We have spoken too many times and our people are still being murdered every single day. Let me therefore just say the following today.
Two million people have lost loved ones in the past seven months…
I stand before the Assembly today as the massacres against the Palestinian people continue unabated. The atrocities and discovery of mass graves in the vicinity of hospitals that were besieged and attacked by Israel is a new, dark chapter in that never-ending tragedy.
As we meet here today, Israel …
Our right to self-determination has never once been subject to bargaining or negotiation. Our right to self- determination is a natural right, a historic right, a legal right, a right to live in our homeland, Palestine, as an independent State that is free and sovereign.
Our right to self-determina…
It is my honour to join members today in this important meeting. I would especially like to sincerely thank you, Mr. President, for holding and presiding over this ministerial meeting. I would also like to express
the gratitude of the State of Palestine to the Secretary- General of the United Natio…
At the outset, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Maltese presidency for convening this important ministerial meeting, as well as to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for taking the initiative to request this meeting on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugee…
The General Assembly called for a cessation of hostilities 20 days after the start of the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, six months ago today. By an overwhelming majority, the Assembly demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire a month later, stressing the need to protect the Palestinian civil…
We want to express our appreciation to Algeria, Guyana and Slovenia for calling for the convening today’s important meeting, and I also want to express our appreciation for the unanimous decision taken by the Group of Arab States yesterday, through our representative, the Ambassador of Algeria, to a…
I wish to begin my statement by conveying my deepest condolences to the people and Government of the Russian Federation, and
my good friend Vassily Nebenzia, following the horrific terrorist attack in Moscow. We express our sympathy to the bereaved families and stand in solidarity with our Russian …
We are meeting as Muslims around the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.
In Gaza, death and suffering can be found everywhere; food and hope can be found nowhere. The massacres of Palestinian civilians continue as we speak. And many of the people fasting had nothing to eat for suhur — …
There is no greater threat to international peace and security than the commission of atrocities. And yet, for five months now, Israel has been committing atrocities against the Palestinian people, unchecked and unhinged, and the Security Council has been prevented repeatedly from calling for an imm…
We thank you, Madam President, for responding to Algeria’s request to convene this urgent meeting, and we also thank Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for supporting that request in follow-up to the white note on the food insecurity crisis in the Gaza Strip, issued by the Secretary-General, pursuant …
We thank you, Madam President, and your friendly country of Guyana for your leadership of the Security Council.
We also thank Algeria for all its efforts and for the statement delivered a few minutes ago by my brother Ambassador Bendjama, bringing forth a draft resolution on behalf of the Group of …
We thank Algeria for requesting today’s meeting as a follow-up to the order of the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). I also want to reiterate ou…
Allow me at the outset to thank France and you, Mr. President, for convening the Security Council at the ministerial level, as we meet once again in the shadows of the deadly Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, which continues unabated, taking thousands of innocent civilian lives, des…
At the outset, I would like to thank the brotherly country of Algeria for requesting this meeting.
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Allow me to thank the briefers, Under-Secretary- General Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General Brands Kehris, for their statements, but more importantly for the relentless effo…
I stand here representing a people being slaughtered, with families killed in their entirety, men and women shot in the streets; thousands abducted, tortured and humiliated; children killed, amputated, orphaned and scarred for life. No people should endure that. It must stop.
No one can understand …
The killing of Palestinian civilians is not a collateral effect of the war. The Israeli assault relies by design on the mass and indiscriminate killing of civilians. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is not the consequence of a war. It is a tool employed by Israel to pressure people and force the…
The Security Council first met (see S/PV.9439) to address this grave crisis when hundreds of Palestinians had been killed by Israel, the occupying Power, in its siege of, and aggression against, the Gaza Strip. The Council is now meeting after more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed — almost …
This is the moment of truth. This is a turning point in history, and it is beyond regrettable — it is disastrous — that the Security Council was again prevented from rising to the moment to uphold its clear responsibilities in the face of the grave crisis threatening human lives and regional and i…
