Mansour: the Nakba continues and the occupation continues to practice genocide against the Palestinian people

The permanent representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, stressed that the Nakba of 1948 continues, and the Israeli occupation continues to practice ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people in full view of the whole world, which reveals double standards and undermines the international system based on law.

In three identical letters to the UN secretary-general, the president of the Security Council and the president of the General Assembly, Mansour explained, according to WAFA, that “Israel continues its outrageous attempts by all means and measures to deprive Palestinians of their human rights and forcibly displaced them from their land, in clear violation of international law and UN General Assembly Resolution No. 194.

Mansour pointed out that the painful reality of this ongoing and gross injustice is embodied in the stricken Gaza Strip, where Palestinians there have been subjected to forced displacement more than once over the past seven months, as 600 thousand people have been forcibly displaced from Rafah alone so far as a result of the Israeli occupation plan to invade the city.

Mansour also drew attention to the settlers ‘continued attacks and crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, under the protection of the occupying forces, reiterating his condemnation of the settlers’ attacks on the UNRWA headquarters in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The representative of Palestine called on the international community to hold accountable the Israeli criminals responsible for these crimes for all their violations of international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, to stop the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, and urgent action by the Security Council, the General Assembly, the human rights council, the International Court of justice and the International Criminal Court to put an end to this historical injustice on the Palestinian people.

Amal Farhat