New York-Sana
The permanent representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, again called on the United Nations to take urgent action and put pressure on the Israeli occupation entity to stop its continuous aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied Jerusalem, in flagrant violation of international laws.
Mansour confirmed in letters sent today to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council and the President of the United Nations General Assembly reported by Wafa Agency that the deliberate aggression of the occupation on the Gaza Strip led to the death of 127 Palestinians, including dozens of children, wounding about 1,000 people, in addition to the death of 11 Palestinians and wounding hundreds. In the West Bank, amid a public pledge by occupation officials to kill and destroy, and to use the most lethal weapons against unarmed Palestinians, including those prohibited by international law.
Mansour explained that in addition to killing Palestinians, the occupation forces continue to indiscriminately and deliberately destroy civilian facilities, including homes, in another serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, noting that more than 500 homes were destroyed, which led to the displacement of thousands in addition to damaging 23 schools and many health centers. Factories, roads, power grids, and other vital infrastructure.
Mansour indicated that Israeli settlers continue their attacks to protect the neighborhoods and villages in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, to displace Palestinians and seize their lands and properties in order to Judaize them.
Mansour stressed the need not to leave the Palestinian people without protection at the mercy of the heavily armed occupation forces, noting that the permanent mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations continues intensively and on all sides in the corridors of the United Nations to stimulate immediate international action to stop the current Israeli aggression on the occupied Palestinian land, including Jerusalem.
On the other hand, the mission of the State of Palestine in Geneva sent an urgent appeal to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland as the depositary of the Geneva Conventions, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Human Rights Council, to the committees of contractual agreements for human rights, to the special rapporteurs, the President of the International Red Cross and the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, about the latest developments and escalation The Israeli against the Palestinian people.
In its appeal, the committee called on international humanitarian organizations to immediately intervene to enforce international law and take decisive measures to stop the ethnic cleansing campaigns carried out by the occupation against the Palestinian people in occupied Jerusalem and the genocidal attacks of the occupation air forces in the besieged Gaza Strip and to stop the occupation entity singling out the policy of impunity from the same rules. And the norms that the world calls for.
