Palestine To Table Another UN Bid for Independence
Palestine plans to submit another draft resolution on the creation of an independent Palestinian state to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the Palestinian ambassador to Russia says.
“The discussion of a new draft resolution is just beginning. It is hard to say when it [the discussion] may end; in a month or two. That definitely will not happen in the next two weeks but certainly will happen in the near future,” Interfax quoted Fayed Mustafa as saying on Thursday.
The decision is closely related to the outcome of a UN Security Council meeting on December 30, when the body failed to pass a resolution requiring Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories captured in 1967.
“If our efforts come to an impasse and the UN Security Council’s door closes to us then we will revise the entire relationship with Israel and the role of the Palestinian autonomy. We will not be putting up with this situation forever. Israel will feel that it has to pay a price for its occupation unless its policy changes,” the ambassador underscored.
During a meeting with Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on January 15, the Arab League said in a statement it will seek to table another resolution at the UNSC on ending Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.
The bloc said that several Arab states are tasked with undertaking “the necessary communications and consultations to submit a new Arab proposal to the Security Council.”
Palestinians also recently signed the documents necessary for Palestine to join 20 international organizations, including the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC has the legal authority to prosecute individuals for war crimes, an issue that Israelis have been repeatedly accused of over the massacre of Palestinians.
Israel has launched three wars on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip since 2008. During the latest military aggression against Gaza in summer 2014, Tel Aviv used advanced weapons to kill over 2,140 Palestinians and destroy thousands of homes.
UN falls short of stopping Israel crimes against Palestinians
On the other hand, Iran says the UN Security Council (UNSC)’s failure to put an end to Israel’s acts of aggression has further emboldened the Tel Aviv regime in its crimes against the Palestinians.
The UNSC’s failure to fulfill its obligations has prompted the Israeli regime to intensify its brutalities against the defenseless Palestinian nation, Hossein Dehqani, the Iranian deputy ambassador to the UN, said on Thursday.
He particularly criticized the UN body for rejecting a resolution calling for the recognition of Palestinian statehood and an end to the Israeli occupation, saying the decision denied the Palestinians their right to justice and peace and deprived them of any chance to realize their cause.
The Israeli regime is yet to be brought to justice over its killing of more than 2,200 Palestinians, including women and children, and displacing thousands of others.
Dehqani, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), said that the organization expects the UNSC to take firm action to put an end to Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian lands.
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