Mansour: The Security Council resolution did not condemn Israel for killing thousands of Palestinians

The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, confirmed that the resolution adopted by the Security Council on Wednesday did not condemn Israel’s killing of 11,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, nor did it condemn indiscriminate attacks on hospitals, schools, and relief teams. It did not call for the immediate release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Occupation detention centers.

Mansour said during his speech in the Security Council on Wednesday night: “The Security Council was supposed to call for a ceasefire a long time ago, and to respond to the calls of the United Nations and every humanitarian organization calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, and to be convinced that there is no military solution, especially if this solution is based on committing atrocities.”

Mansour pointed out that the Israeli occupation Foreign Ministry rejected the Security Council resolution from the first moments of its announcement and said that it would not implement it and would continue on its current path, wondering what action the Council would take in light of what the occupation government said that it will not abide by this resolution.

Mansour added, “You have been calling on “Israel” for 40 days to uphold the laws of war, and it has chosen to continue to violate them openly. Indeed, you have called on “Israel” to respect international law for decades, and it has always ignored your calls and continued its crimes against the Palestinian people. Will you ask it today about to why it rejected  this decision? What you just decided?

Mansour stressed the need to immediately stop the Israeli bombing and barbaric incursion into Gaza Strip, and to bring in humanitarian aid and fuel urgently and effectively to end the siege and save millions of lives that are at danger, noting that the occupation destroyed Gaza’s hospitals and the Palestinian people there lack clean water, food and medicine.

Mansour pointed out that the Israeli occupation’s plan has become clear to everyone, which is to continue seizing, annexing, displacing, and depriving the Palestinian people of their rights, to complete the Nakba that began in 1948, indicating that humanity has resoundingly failed in Palestine, so the Council’s decisions must not remain ink on paper.

Last night, the UN Security Council adopted a draft resolution submitted by the State of Malta calling for a humanitarian ceasefire and the opening of urgent and extended safe corridors for several days in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression since the seventh of last October.

Inas Abdulkareem