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Iran urges Security Council to take immediate action on Gaza
New York, Dec 20, IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to United Nations Eshaq Ale Habib on Friday urged the Security Council to take immediate action to alleviate sufferings of people living in Gaza Strip.
He said in his statement to United Nations Security Council meeting
that humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip, has reached a disastrous
point and the people living there are subject to untold Israeli
crimes, and are enduring a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in
the last several decades.
"In the past several weeks, the situation in the occupied Palestinian
territories has further deteriorated as a result of the continued
Israeli illegal policies and practices.
"Military attacks against Palestinian civilians and properties,
demolition of homes and other properties, targeted killings, unlawful
construction and expansion of settlements, colonization measures, the
transfer of settlers, imposition of a permit regime and other severe
restrictions on movement in the occupied Palestinian territories and
construction of the unlawful apartheid Wall are a few examples of
Israeli criminal activities that have continued unabated and have even
accelerated.
"Moreover, all forms of inhumane and unlawful measures are imposed on
the Palestinian civilian population, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
"Israeli settler's heinous violence, terrorism, harassment and racist
acts against Palestinian civilians, their properties and agricultural
land has increased. The recent shocking and condemnable events in
Al-Khalil where extremist Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian
homes and orchards and cold-bloodedly killed Palestinian civilians,
display a pre-planned campaign of terror and intimidation in order to
make the life there even more miserable for the innocent Palestinians
civilians.
"The world community is today witnessing the unprecedented tragic
situation that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are facing as
a result of the atrocious crimes of the Israeli regime. The
international community is witnessing the perpetration by the Israeli
regime of some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed in the
mankind's history, against innocent people.
"More than 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip are starved, massacred
and are subject to collective punishment. They are deprived of the
most basic goods, medical supplies and services that are necessary to
keep them alive.
"The Israeli regime has turned a deaf ear to numerous calls on the
part of the international community and is practically eliminating a
whole population before the eyes of the world community in a criminal
move that has been termed as "crime against humanity" by the UN human
rights officials.
"For the founders of the United Nations it would have been certainly
impossible, a few decades ago, to imagine that in the 21st century a
whole population would be subject to such a horrendous crime against
humanity and starved to death by a criminal regime, while the Security
Council would remain idle.
But it is unfortunately happening now. It is long overdue for the
United Nations and the Security Council to take urgent and meaningful
action in order to counter these atrocities and war crimes against the
Palestinian people and to help alleviate the sufferings and pains of
the people in the Gaza Strip.
"Silence on the part of the international community is neither an
option, nor justifiable.
"Hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children, are
looking at the United Nations and the international community at
large, in anguish and disillusionment, while under constant threat,
intimidation and abhorrent crimes of the Israeli regime.
"We should not leave them alone. The Security Council must live up to
its responsibilities and move quickly to protect the innocent
civilians facing collective punishment in the Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli regime continues its brutal occupation of, and unlawful
acts in, the occupied Syrian Golan too. It also continues to occupy
parts of the Lebanese territories and persists on its daily violation
of the Lebanese airspace in blatant breach of Security Council
resolution 1701.
"These are other showcases of Israeli regime's contempt for this
Council and for its decisions, and should be addressed in a serious
manner.
"Undoubtedly, inaction on the part of the Security Council, which is
in turn due to the unqualified support extended by a permanent member
of the Council to the Israeli regime, has emboldened the said regime
in its war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The Israeli regime not only continues its abhorrent crimes against
the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and other parts of the
occupied Palestinian territories with full impunity, but it also
persists on its intimidation and harassment of the UN agencies and
human rights officials and on its vicious threats against the nations
who show sympathy to the innocent Palestinian people.
He deplored that the unconditional support extended to the Israeli
regime by a permanent member of the Council cannot but be regarded as
an explicit support for the war crimes and unlawful activities
persistently pursued by the Israeli regime.
He said in his statement to United Nations Security Council meeting
that humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip, has reached a disastrous
point and the people living there are subject to untold Israeli
crimes, and are enduring a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in
the last several decades.
"In the past several weeks, the situation in the occupied Palestinian
territories has further deteriorated as a result of the continued
Israeli illegal policies and practices.
"Military attacks against Palestinian civilians and properties,
demolition of homes and other properties, targeted killings, unlawful
construction and expansion of settlements, colonization measures, the
transfer of settlers, imposition of a permit regime and other severe
restrictions on movement in the occupied Palestinian territories and
construction of the unlawful apartheid Wall are a few examples of
Israeli criminal activities that have continued unabated and have even
accelerated.
"Moreover, all forms of inhumane and unlawful measures are imposed on
the Palestinian civilian population, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
"Israeli settler's heinous violence, terrorism, harassment and racist
acts against Palestinian civilians, their properties and agricultural
land has increased. The recent shocking and condemnable events in
Al-Khalil where extremist Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian
homes and orchards and cold-bloodedly killed Palestinian civilians,
display a pre-planned campaign of terror and intimidation in order to
make the life there even more miserable for the innocent Palestinians
civilians.
"The world community is today witnessing the unprecedented tragic
situation that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are facing as
a result of the atrocious crimes of the Israeli regime. The
international community is witnessing the perpetration by the Israeli
regime of some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed in the
mankind's history, against innocent people.
"More than 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip are starved, massacred
and are subject to collective punishment. They are deprived of the
most basic goods, medical supplies and services that are necessary to
keep them alive.
"The Israeli regime has turned a deaf ear to numerous calls on the
part of the international community and is practically eliminating a
whole population before the eyes of the world community in a criminal
move that has been termed as "crime against humanity" by the UN human
rights officials.
"For the founders of the United Nations it would have been certainly
impossible, a few decades ago, to imagine that in the 21st century a
whole population would be subject to such a horrendous crime against
humanity and starved to death by a criminal regime, while the Security
Council would remain idle.
But it is unfortunately happening now. It is long overdue for the
United Nations and the Security Council to take urgent and meaningful
action in order to counter these atrocities and war crimes against the
Palestinian people and to help alleviate the sufferings and pains of
the people in the Gaza Strip.
"Silence on the part of the international community is neither an
option, nor justifiable.
"Hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children, are
looking at the United Nations and the international community at
large, in anguish and disillusionment, while under constant threat,
intimidation and abhorrent crimes of the Israeli regime.
"We should not leave them alone. The Security Council must live up to
its responsibilities and move quickly to protect the innocent
civilians facing collective punishment in the Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli regime continues its brutal occupation of, and unlawful
acts in, the occupied Syrian Golan too. It also continues to occupy
parts of the Lebanese territories and persists on its daily violation
of the Lebanese airspace in blatant breach of Security Council
resolution 1701.
"These are other showcases of Israeli regime's contempt for this
Council and for its decisions, and should be addressed in a serious
manner.
"Undoubtedly, inaction on the part of the Security Council, which is
in turn due to the unqualified support extended by a permanent member
of the Council to the Israeli regime, has emboldened the said regime
in its war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The Israeli regime not only continues its abhorrent crimes against
the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and other parts of the
occupied Palestinian territories with full impunity, but it also
persists on its intimidation and harassment of the UN agencies and
human rights officials and on its vicious threats against the nations
who show sympathy to the innocent Palestinian people.
He deplored that the unconditional support extended to the Israeli
regime by a permanent member of the Council cannot but be regarded as
an explicit support for the war crimes and unlawful activities
persistently pursued by the Israeli regime.
