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Israel’s attack on WCK workers not ‘isolated’, Palestine’s Mansour says
Palestine’s representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, tells the Security Council that being Palestinian is “enough to be killed”.
“You saw it over two weeks in al-Shifa Hospital where Israel summarily executed people, arrested and tortured them, including the wounded and the sick and medical personnel, without feeling the need to provide much explanation or any evidence,” Mansour said during a session on the situation in the Middle East.
He added that the killing of the WCK aid workers was not an “isolated incident”, and Israel knew who it was targeting.
“It is unfortunate that it took the killing of foreign nationals for some to fully acknowledge the fate reserved for Palestinians for 180 days now,” he added.
To Israel, all those who help Palestinians are ‘legitimate targets’: Mansour
Mansour also said that Israel sees the entire population of Gaza and those who help Palestinians as “legitimate targets”. “Its enough to call them ‘collateral damage’,” Palestine’s representative to the UN told the Security Council, who are meeting to discuss the risk of famine in Gaza and the attacks on aid workers.
He added that Israel “ignored” the UNSC resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and that it was the responsibility of the council and member states to ensure that the resolution was being upheld.
“Faced with such outrage for its attack on foreign nationals from the World Central Kitchen, Israel took its first measures, dismissing two senior officers and reprimanding three others. That is the punishment for the commission of war crimes? That is outrageous,” he said.
“Who will be held accountable for all the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed?”
‘Our failures mean their death,’ Palestine’s Mansour says
“History will remember that Israel continued to be present within these walls while trying to bring down the UN and the international law-based order this organisation stands for,” Mansour told the UNSC. He added that while Israel continues to displace an entire group of people and breach international law, Palestine, which is committed to peace, is yet to be admitted into the UN.
“One day, as for other genocides, a lot will be said about these failures. But we can’t wait. Action is needed now. At every level. With every means available,” he said. "I call on you, individually and collectively, to do more, now. To figure out a way to stop these massacres, and this premeditated killing of children, and women and men.
“Our failures mean their death. That should be reason enough for us to do everything in our power to bring this tragedy to an end,” he urged.
