Palestinian deputy everlasting consultant to the United Nations, Majed Bamya, on Monday warned that Israel’s ongoing violations of the UN Security Council resolutions with out accountability are enabling the continuation of warfare crimes and unlawful acts throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.
Speaking throughout a Security Council session on the state of affairs within the Middle East, Bamya mentioned: “The price of not holding those who breach the resolutions of this council accountable (is) … the perpetuation of crimes and illegal actions.”
He pointed to decades-long worldwide condemnation of Israeli settlements, which have nonetheless continued unabated attributable to what he described as a scarcity of accountability.
“This is day 632 and the slaughter is ongoing. There is nothing that can justify a genocide. A nation is fighting for its survival, faced with an existential threat,” he continued.
Bamya decried the Security Council’s repeated conferences whereas the genocide continues, saying selections to carry perpetrators accountable, halt the killing, and permit support to enter Gaza “in a dignified manner” can not be deferred.
“There is something unbearable and, honestly, a bit humiliating about having to proclaim over and over again that we are part of humanity and that we should be treated as human beings,” he mentioned.
Palestinians, he added, “were not born to live their lives under foreign occupation or to endure repeatedly death and destruction, displacement and dispossession.”
“There should be consensus against these criminal options,” he continued, lamenting: “But when it comes to the Palestinian people… we have an experience, when it comes to us, to see people justify the unjustifiable.”
Calling for a political decision, Bamya mentioned: “There is no viable solution without an independent and sovereign state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side with Israel in peace and security.”
He concluded by calling for support to be delivered with dignity, not as “a means to forcibly displace (Palestinians), squeeze them into part of the territory, make them desperate, further humiliate them.”
“We ask to be treated as human beings,” Bamya mentioned. “That’s not too much to ask.”
The Israeli military has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, killing greater than 56,500 Palestinians to this point, most of them girls and kids.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants final November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for warfare crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity in Gaza.
Israel additionally faces a genocide case on the International Court of Justice for its warfare on the enclave.
Source: www.anews.com.tr