Al-Dahhak: Arab region moving towards comprehensive escalation due to the Israeli occupation’s aggressive practices

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Qusai Al-Dahhak has stressed that the Arab region is heading towards a new stage of comprehensive escalation due to the Israeli occupation’s continuing crimes against the Palestinians, its threats to launch aggression against Lebanon and its repeated attacks on Syrian territories.

During a Security Council session on Tuesday, Al-Dahhak said “the United States and its allies give priority to the interest of the occupying entity over international law, international humanitarian law, and the principles and objectives of the UN Charter, instead of seeking to contain this escalation and work to calm the situation to achieve stability in the region.

“The crimes of the Israeli occupation and its supporters in Gaza revealed the extent of the hypocrisy of Western countries that declare themselves as protectors of human rights,” Al-Dahhak added. He clarified that these countries kept silent over what is going on in Gaza Strip and their alleged humanitarian concern remianed abscent and they did not take the initiative to establish any international mechanisms to document the crimes of the occupation and ensure accountability for them.

“These same countries that defend the occupation entity, the genocide and the war crimes this entity commits, have threatened the judicial mechanisms that they themselves created to target specific countries and sought to silence the voices of all their citizens who demand an end to these crimes,” Al-Dahhak pointed out.

He also said that the suffering of the Syrian people continues as a result of Western coercive measures whose destructive impacts have affected all aspects of life in the country and caused severe damage to various vital sectors, including those that Security Council resolutions emphasized that they need to be supported.

Al-Dahhak added that more than a million citizens in the city of Hasakah and its countryside have been suffering because of being deprived of water for more than 10 months as a result of the attacks by the Turkish occupation forces and the US-backed militias on the Alouk water station. He demanded an end to these aggressive practices.

Hamda Mustafa