New York – Palestine renewed its call on Friday for international action to stop the genocide and put an end to the threat “posed by Israel to international peace and security.”
This came in identical letters sent by the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the President of the General Assembly, Dennis Francis, and the President of the Security Council for this month, the State of Sierra Leone.
“We reiterate our calls to the international community, particularly the UN Security Council and General Assembly, to take immediate action to fulfil their responsibilities and obligations to hold Israel, the occupying power, accountable for its crimes and to achieve justice for the Palestinian people,” Mansour said in his letters.
He called for “putting an end to this threat posed by Israel to international peace and security in order to save the human lives at risk and to complete the possibilities of reaching a just solution to this grave injustice.”
Mansour said, “Israel and the atrocities it is committing against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, violate all prohibitions stipulated in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and commits, without any deterrent, war crimes, crimes against humanity and atrocities in Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, on an unprecedented scale and magnitude, and in a manner that shocks the human conscience.”
“For 10 months, the world has watched this horrific genocide, witnessed the most heinous atrocities, and yet failed to act to protect the Palestinian civilian population, abandoning the most serious obligations set out in the Charter and obligations under customary international law binding on all states,” he added.
Mansour continued, “Israel targets Palestinian civilians with all forms of lethal weapons, violating every rule of international law that was established to protect civilians in cases of armed conflict.”
“Israel’s targeting of civilians is systematic and deliberate,” he said.
He pointed out that “its destruction of schools, including the destruction of 190 UNRWA facilities, has left more than 600,000 children without access to education, and its destruction of Gaza’s 19 universities deprives more than 88,000 young people of higher education, putting the future of an entire generation at risk.”
Mansour told the officials that “the number of victims during these ten months is very large, most of them women and children (…) Israel has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians.”
“This horrific list of victims does not include the 10,000 people estimated to be missing, most of whom are believed to be buried under rubble or in mass graves,” he added.
He stressed that “the failure of the international community to hold Israel accountable for its flagrant violations of these resolutions and its ongoing serious violations of international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, has only increased Israel’s impunity, leading to disastrous consequences.”
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2024-08-11 16:36:58
