New York-Sana
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Bassam Sabbagh, affirmed that the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people comes within a continuous series of war crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people in an attempt to displace them from their lands and change their demographic character, stressing that these crimes would not have happened had it not been for the presence of a green light and American Western support. For the Israeli occupation entity.
In a written statement during a session of the UN Security Council today via video about “developments in the situation in the Palestinian territories in light of the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people,” Sabbagh expressed Syria’s disapproval of the US delegation’s procrastination in allowing this session to take place in an open American attempt to grant the Israeli occupation authorities More time to continue its attacks on the Palestinian people.
Sabbagh said: The escalation of barbaric Israeli practices against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem coincided with the seventy-third anniversary of the rape of Palestine as it comes as part of a continuous series of war crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people to displace them from their lands and change their demographic and religious character, noting that Israeli settlers attacked unarmed Palestinians in The neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah, Bab al-Amud and Silwan, violating the sanctity of their homes and attempting to rob them of them by sham and unfair decisions, in clear violation of the occupying power’s obligations under the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.
Sabbagh indicated that the Palestinians were also provoked by the storming of settlers and the Israeli occupation authorities into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, preventing the Palestinians from fulfilling their religious duty during the holy month of Ramadan, and then the occupation forces embarking on aggressive measures inside the mosque in order to inflame the situation and serve the racist policies of Netanyahu's government against the Palestinians.
Sabbagh said: The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the continuous barbaric behavior of the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and others, as well as the Western coverage of the attacks and murders of civilians, most of them women and children, and the massive devastation caused by the Israeli air attacks in Public and private property and civilian facilities, which did not exclude UNRWA schools, as the Israeli air strikes severely damaged a number of UNRWA schools in Gaza and destroyed no less than "29" classrooms.
Sabbagh pointed out that yesterday's bombing of the evacuation tower in Gaza City, which houses the headquarters of international media, means that "Israel" wants to prevent the world from reaching the truth and blocking the vision of the war crimes it commits against the Palestinian people, which killed hundreds of martyrs and wounded.
Sabbagh said: It is shameful for the United States and some European countries to characterize what is happening in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “cycle of mutual violence” by transforming the criminal into a victim under the pretext of a “state of self-defense,” calling on those who invoke the response of the Palestinian resistance to evade condemning the Israeli violations to remember that During the return marches that were launched in the same period in 2018 in response to the actions of former US President Donald Trump to transfer his country's embassy to occupied Jerusalem, hundreds of unarmed Palestinians were martyred at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces without launching a single missile, yet those countries were ignored at the time. Condemnation of "Israel".
Sabbagh stressed that the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians would not have been possible without the presence of a Western American green light, and that the silence of the United States, France and Britain about the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians, especially women and children, and the attempt to cover them up in the Security Council under flimsy pretexts reveals the hypocrisy and falsity of their claims in Ensuring the protection of human rights and exposing their false allegations and their frenzied campaign over the years against Syria, asking all those who cracked our heads during the past years by talking about protecting civilians and civilian facilities, preserving human rights and ensuring accountability Why do not we hear from them today how they will protect the Palestinian people from the Israeli killing machine How will they hold Israel accountable for its criminal actions against the Palestinians?
Sabbagh affirmed that it is shameful for those countries that speak out with slogans of democracy and protect human rights and use them as a vehicle to interfere in the affairs of many member states to destabilize their security and stability, to resort to denying the anti-war and peace advocates their right to demonstrate peacefully denouncing Israeli practices and expressing their support and solidarity with the Palestinian people. This exposes the double standards adopted by Western countries when it comes to protecting "Israel" and ensuring that it escapes from accountability for its violations of international law and the provisions of the United Nations Charter.
Sabbagh called on the international community to take effective and immediate steps to end the suffering of the Palestinian people, stop the continuous Israeli attacks on them, support their right to self-determination, establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, and guarantee the right of refugees to return to their homes in accordance with Resolution 194 of 1948, which is not subject to the right. To negotiate or assignment and it is not subject to statute of limitations
In the conclusion of his statement, Sabbagh called on the UN Security Council to move from the state of speeches and statements to the state of action and assume its responsibilities in ending the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, including the Syrian Arab Golan, by implementing its relevant decisions, foremost of which are Resolutions 242, 338 and 497, and putting an end to this long, continuous and unprecedented violation of the law. International and the provisions of the United Nations Charter.