Mansour Calls on The International Community to Urgently Stop the Ongoing Genocide war of the Occupation in Gaza Strip

The permanent representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on the United Nations to act urgently and put pressure on the Israeli occupation to stop the genocide and massacres that it has been committing for about 10 months in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the wounding of tens of thousands others, mostly children and women.

Mansour said in a briefing during a session of the Security Council yesterday, quoted by WAFA News Agency, that it is time to stop the genocidal war that the Israeli occupation continues to commit in Gaza Strip, and that there must be a ceasefire now, in line with the provisions of resolution 2735 and without any other conditions and ill-intentioned demands contrary to the essence of the resolution, clearly aimed at hampering ceasefire efforts.

Addressing the council members, Mansour added: “When Will you move, whether there is an agreement or not, there is no excuse for Israel to continue killing innocent Palestinian civilians,” calling on the countries of the world to visit Gaza Strip to see the horrors experienced by the Palestinian people as a result of the Israeli aggression.

Mansour pointed out that Gaza has remained polio –free for the past twenty – five years, and it does not need more paralysis and death-first by bombs and bullets-and now by famine and disease sponsored by the Israeli occupation, adding: “Gaza has witnessed the destruction of life… It needs to regain life now.”

He declared his full support for the secretary-general’s proposal for an urgent vaccination campaign to stop the spread of polio, warning that any obstruction of these efforts “will be further evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent and actions against our people”.

Amal Farhat