قام السفير الدكتور رياض منصور، المراقب الدائم لدولة فلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة وعدد من السفراء العرب بعقد عدة اجتماعات مع سفراء الدول الأعضاء في مجلس الأمن في إطار سلسلة مشاورات بشأن حشد الدعم لمبادرة الرئيس محمود عباس كي يتخذ مجلس الأمن قراراً يحدد سقفاً زمنياً لإنهاء الإحتلال الإسرائيلي لأرض دولة فلسطين، بما فيها القدس الشرقية. كما تم عقد اجتماعات بهدف تحديد العناصر الرئيسية المتعلقة بقضية فلسطين التي ستركز عليها الوفود العربية والصديقة في النقاش العام في بداية الدورة 69 للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة مركزين في هذا الإطار على مبادرة الرئيس محمود عباس لإنهاء الإحتلال، وعلى الوضع في قطاع غزة مع التأكيد على ضرورة مساءلة إسرائيل، السلطة القائمة بالإحتلال، عن إنتهاكاتها وجرائمها خلال عدوانها الغاشم على قطاع غزة، وعلى ضرورة إستدامة وقف إطلاق النار ورفع الحصار الإسرائيلي والبدء في إعادة إعمار قطاع غزة ودعم الدور المصري في هذا الصدد. ومن هذه العناصر دعم حكومة التوافق الوطني الفلسطيني تحت قيادة الرئيس محمود عباس والتصدي للمحاولات الإسرائيلية الهادفة إلى تقويض هذه الحكومة [Read more…]
Archives for 2014
27 August 2014 – بيان صحفي
بعث السفيرالدكتور رياض منصور، المراقب الدائم لدولة فلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة في نيويورك، رسائل متطابقة إلى الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة ورئيس مجلس الأمن (المملكة المتحدة) ورئيس الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، ذكر فيها أنه بينما هناك ارتياح كبير إزاء التوصل إلى اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار بين الفلسطينيين والإسرائيليين نتيجة لجهود الوساطة المصرية بعد ما يقرب من شهرين من العدوان الاسرائيلي ضد الشعب الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة، فإنه من واجبنا لفت انتباه المجتمع الدولي الى المعاناة الشديدة والدمار الوحشي الناجم عن العدوان العسكري الإسرائيلي الذي استمر طوال الأيام التي كان يجري فيها التفاوض على وقف إطلاق النار. حتى في الساعات الأخيرة، واصلت إسرائيل استخدام القوة المميتة والحاق المزيد من الخسائر والألم بالمدنيين الفلسطينيين الأبرياء. وأضاف أن 12 فلسطينيا على الأقل استشهدوا خلال ال 24 ساعة الماضية قبل اعلان اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار، وبذا ارتفع عدد الشهداء الى 2،143 فلسطينيا، الأغلبية الساحقة منهم من المدنيين، بما في ذلك الأطفال والنساء، وتجاوز عدد الجرحى الفلسطينيين 11،000 شخص. وعلاوة على ذلك، استهدفت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يوم 26 أغسطس برج المجمع الإيطالي بحي النصر في مدينة غزة المكون من 16 طابقا ودمرته بشكل كامل مما أدى الى تشريد العائلات التي كانت تسكن في 60 شقة في البناية وتدمير أرزاق أصحاب المحلات التجارية الموجودة فيها. كما أدى الهجوم على بناية الباشا في منطقة الرمال في غزة المكونة من 14 طابقا الى جعل البناية غير صالحة للسكن [Read more…]
17 September 2014 – Critical Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Excellency,
I am compelled to draw your attention to the very fragile, unstable situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – the Territory that constitutes the State of Palestine – due to the continued illegal policies and practices being pursued by Israel, the occupying Power, in grave breach of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, and in blatant disregard of the appeals and demands of the international community.
While the suffering and hardships of the Palestinian people are growing exponentially under the impact of these illegal and punitive Israeli measures, the diminished prospects for peace are further dwindling. The consequences of inaction are far-reaching, especially in light of the volatile situation on the ground and throughout the region, and require urgent attention and action by the international community to redress this ongoing injustice and to salvage the prospects for peace. [Read more…]
2 September 2014 – Illegal Settlement Activities and Destruction of Peace
Excellency,
In every action and word, Israel, the occupying Power, is proving its total rejection of peace, preferring instead to persist with its illegal settlement activities and annexation schemes, imposition of blockade, use of force, arrest and detention of civilians, and countless other measures of collective punishment and repression against the Palestinian civilian population under its 47-year military occupation. And, with every action and word, Israel is destroying what little viability remains of the two-State solution for peace on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.
In the span of a week since the cease-fire agreement in Cairo that brought an end to Israel’s criminal aggression on the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip, where thousands of Palestinians, including children and women, were slaughtered and wounded by the Israeli occupying forces and massive destruction was inflicted throughout Gaza, Israel, the occupying Power has carried on systematically with its vindictive, retaliatory and illegal behavior against the Palestinian people and their land, leaving no doubt as to its cynical, deliberate intentions to perpetuate its occupation by all unlawful means, while falsely claiming victimhood and a desire for peace. [Read more…]
27 August 2014 – Devastation in Gaza and Ceasefire
Excellency,
While there is broad relief that a Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire agreement has been reached as a result of the mediation efforts of Egypt after nearly two months of the Israeli onslaught against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, it is our somber duty to draw the attention of the international community to the deep suffering of the many victims and the wanton destruction caused by this Israeli military aggression, which continued throughout the days the ceasefire was being negotiated. Even in the final hours, Israel persisted with its lethal use of force – its method of choice regarding any and every issue concerning the Palestinian people under its occupation – inflicting more loss and pain on innocent Palestinian civilians.
At least 12 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours before the ceasefire agreement was announced. Among those killed by the occupying forces were: Samer Hamad and Mohammed Dhaher, two utility workers, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle belonging to the Gaza electric company; Mohammed Muin Abu Ajwa and Hassan Omar Al-Sawwaf, who were killed by an Israeli missile strike targeting central Gaza City; Yousef Ghannam, Mohammed Al-Ribati and Ahmed Jarbou, who were killed in an airstrike on Al-Jneinah neighborhood of Rafah; and Mohammed Al-Zaanin, who was killed in an attack on Beit Hanoun. Also killed yesterday in an airstrike was another journalist, Abdallah Murtaja, whose death brings to 17 the number of journalists killed by the occupying forces in this aggression against Gaza.
The continuation of Israeli airstrikes Monday night and yesterday has brought the death toll to 2,143 Palestinians, the overwhelming majority civilians, including children and women, and ensured that the number of injured Palestinians surpassed 11,000 people, many of whom have been critically wounded by Israel’s lethal weaponry and are struggling for their lives, and many of whom will not survive without life-saving medical treatments not available in Gaza. [Read more…]
25 August 2014 – بيان صحفي
في متابعة للرسائل المتطابقة الموجهة من السفيرالدكتور رياض منصور، المراقب الدائم لدولة فلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة في نيويورك، إلى الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة ورئيس مجلس الأمن (المملكة المتحدة) ورئيس الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، وآخرها تلك التي ارسلت في 21 أغسطس والتي تطرق فيها الى مواصلة إسرائيل عدوانها الغاشم وجرائمها وعمليات الاغتيال خارج نطاق القانون ضد الفلسطينيين في قطاع غزة ، والى
انتهاكاتها واجراءاتها غير القانونية في بقية الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، بما فيها القدس الشرقية، ومن بينها اقتحام قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي منزل خالدة جرار، النائبة في المجلس التشريعي الفلسطيني، واصدار أمر عسكري بابعادها من رام الله، و هدم بيوت الفلسطينيين وقمع المسيرات الفلسطينية بالقوة المفرطة والعشوائية، قام السفير منصور [Read more…]
25 August 2014 – More Death and Destruction by Israel, the occupying Power
Excellency,
I am compelled to again draw your attention to the horrific situation in the Occupied State of Palestine, as we enter the 51st day of the Israeli military aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In the four days since my last letter to you, Israel, the occupying Power, has not relented with its airstrikes against densely-populated civilian areas in Gaza, intentionally killing and injuring more Palestinian civilians, destroying more homes and infrastructure and displacing hundreds of more families in addition to the over half-million civilians already displaced by this Israeli onslaught against our people, the majority of whom continue to shelter in UNRWA schools. Specifically, the level of premeditated death and destruction imposed on the Gaza Strip by the occupying Power has surpassed merely immoral, inhumane behavior and constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, for which Israel must be fully held accountable.
The stories, photos and social media voices coming out of Gaza are horrifying and even those cannot convey the extent of the misery being deliberately inflicted by Israel on the Palestinian civilian population in grave breach of international humanitarian law. The figures since the start of this barbaric aggression in early July now stand as follows: at least 2,130 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupying forces in Gaza, including an estimated 577 children, 261 women and 101 elderly people.
Almost 10,870 other Palestinians, most civilians, have been injured including some 3,300 children, more than 2,000 women and roughly 400 elderly people. Of those killed during the past seven weeks of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, it is estimated that 90 families have been decimated, with the killing of 530 family members. These shocking figures do not include the dead that have yet to be recovered from the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings struck by Israeli missiles and bombs and do not include those who continue to tragically die from the wounds sustained in Israeli attacks. [Read more…]
21 August 2014 – Israeli Assassinations and Killing of Civilians
Excellency,
In blatant contempt for the call reiterated yesterday by the United Nations Security Council for an immediate ceasefire, Israel, the occupying Power, continues its military airstrike attacks against the Gaza Strip, terrorizing the Palestinian civilian population as it wreaks further death, injury and destruction. The Palestinian nation continues to grieve as death toll continues to rise and the lives of more innocent children, women, men and elderly persons are destroyed by this resumed Israeli onslaught.
Today, at least 29 more Palestinians have been deliberately and wantonly killed by the Israeli occupying forces in missile airstrikes, drone attacks and bombings on densely populated civilian areas. Israel has also resumed its illegal policy of targeted assassinations against Palestinians, boasting of its extrajudicial killing of several people in recent days in attacks that also killed many civilians, including multiple members of families. Here, it must be recalled that the willful killing and injury of persons is considered among the grave breaches defined in Article 147 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. For all of these war crimes and crimes against humanity for which the occupying Power must be held accountable.
Among those killed today by the Israeli occupying forces were four people killed by an Israeli drone-fired missile as they dug graves to bury their relatives at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City. The victims were Mohammed Talal Abu Nahl, Rami Abu Nahl, Haitham Tafesh, and Abed Talal Shioukh. Another four people, all members of Al-Reefi family, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a garden near Al-Sunna Mosque in Gaza City. The victims of this barbaric attack were Nasr Ziyad Al-Reefi and three children, Omar Nasr Al-Reefi, Abdallah Tareq Al-Reefi and Mohammed Ziyad Al-Reefi. Today, the 9th member of Allouh family, Iman Allouh, died of wounds sustained in the attack on her family home yesterday, meeting the same tragic fate of many of the injured who have not survived these barbaric Israeli attacks. [Read more…]
20 August 2014 – Israeli Airstrikes and Killing of Civilians
Excellency,
Regrettably the cycle of violence has resumed and death and destruction are once again being meted out by Israel, the occupying Power, against the defenseless Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
As indicated in my letter to you of 12 August 2014, even throughout the entire period of the temporary humanitarian ceasefire and during the course of negotiations in Cairo for a permanent ceasefire agreement, Israel has never abided by the ceasefire, persisting with flying its war planes above the Gaza Strip and with attacks by land and sea and now resuming its military airstrikes.
Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupying forces have carried out more than 60 military airstrikes against densely populated civilian areas in Gaza, killing at least 24 Palestinians, including children and women, and injuring more than 110 people. Among those murdered by Israel in this onslaught were 6 members of Al-Dalou family, including Mustafa Rabah Al-Dalou, age 14, his mother, Wafaa Hussein Al-Dalou, and Ahmad Rabah Al-Dalou, age 20 when Israeli warplanes struck their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. Also killed in that strike were Widad Al-Deif, age 27, and her 7-month old baby, Ali. The occupying forces also bombed the home of Allouh family, killing 8 members of the family, including children, women and men, and injuring dozens of others. The dead included Mohammed Allouh and his two brothers, Raafat and Ahmed, as well as the wife of Raafat and their four young children. Also killed in Israeli airstrikes were a two-year old girl, Nour Mohammed Abu Hasira, in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City and Mohammed Ahmed Al-Abeet, age 16, and Sahir Al-Abeet, age 11, near Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. The intensity of the Israeli missile strikes and bombings has again flattened homes and more civilians are feared dead as rescue personnel continue attempts to recover bodies trapped under the rubble. [Read more…]
12 August 2014 – بيان صحفي
بعث السفيرالدكتور رياض منصور، المراقب الدائم لدولة فلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة في نيويورك، رسائل متطابقة إلى الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة ورئيس مجلس الأمن (المملكة المتحدة) ورئيس الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، حولمواصلة إسرائيل، السلطة القائمة بالاحتلال، انتهاكاتها للقانون الدولي، بما في ذلك القانون الإنساني الدولي والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان، ذكر فيها أن الوضع خطير في دولة فلسطين المحتلة، وبخاصة في قطاع غزة حيث يعاني السكان المدنيين الفلسطينيين تحت الحصار من كارثة إنسانية مروعة من جراء العدوان العسكري الإسرائيلي الذي اسفر حتى الأن عن استشهاد أكثر من 1940 فلسطيني، 1400 منهم من المدنيين، من بينهم 467 من الأطفال و243 من النساء و87 من كبار السن وجرح ما يقرب من 10،000 شخصا، من بينهم 3009 طفل على الأقل، في انتهاك صارخ للقانون الإنساني الدولي الذي يحظر، ضمن جملة أمور، القتل العمد، وتعمد إحداث آلام شديدة أو الإضرار الخطير بالسلامة البدنية أو الصحية للأشخاص المحميين. كما تسبب العدوان في دمار واسع النطاق في المنازل والهياكل الأساسية، مثل محطة توليد [Read more…]
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