Palestinian Permanent Representative to the UN calls on international community to put an end to Israeli occupation authorities’ impunity

Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on the international community to take urgent and concrete measures to provide protection for the Palestinian people, and to put an end to the impunity of the Israeli occupation authorities for their crimes against them.

WAFA Agency stated that Mansour made it clear in letters to both the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council and the President of the United Nations General Assembly, that “Israel,” the occupying power, continues to strengthen settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the rules of international law and Security Council resolutions that call for a halt to all settlement operations.

Mansour referred to the attacks carried out by settlers last week on several Palestinian villages and setting  fire to a number of them, in addition to firing bullets at Palestinians. He noted that the escalation of settler attacks and the occupation forces on the village of Ain Samia, east of Ramallah, led to the forcible displacement of more than 200 Palestinians from it, with the aim of establishing a military site for the occupation and then a settlement on its land.

Mansour shouldered the Security Council in the light of its mandate stipulated in the Charter the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security, recalling that international law explicitly prohibits the occupation authorities from transferring settlers to the occupied territories. Therefore the presence of every Israeli settler on Palestinian land is illegal, and amounts to a war crime.

Inas  Abdulkareem