Source The United Nations
Media www.rajawalisiber.com – Press conference by Ambassador Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, on the situation of civilians in Gaza.
Palestine Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour today (11 Oct) said, “peace would require that the Israeli side to recognize that we exist, and we are humans, and we have national rights and aspirations,” while the representative of the League of Arab States, Majed Abdulfattah Abdulaziz, added that “if Israel believes that military action is going to settle the Palestinian question, they’re wrong.”
It could have happened in 2006, with the attack on Lebanon, 2008, 2014. Many other times that attacks have happened, and it led to no results. The Palestinians are adamant, and the Palestinian question and Palestinian issue remains a central issue for the League of Arab States and for all the Arab countries, despite everything that is happening, whether it is Abraham Accords, whether it is any other developments in the political track.”
Mansour said, “the situation is extremely horrific against our civilian population that destruction is beyond imaginations,” adding that “the whole world is seeing that that catastrophe that is befalling on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
The Palestinian Ambassador said, “we will continue the contact with everyone, including the Security Council, so that the international community to shoulder its responsibility and stepping to the picture and in putting an end to this onslaught against our people.”
He said, “there has to be a humanitarian intervention in order to avoid a looming catastrophe.”
Mansour said, “we we’ve been in that situation so many times before, and those who thought that – Prime Minister Netanyahu said it more than one time – the Palestine question is behind us, the Palestinian problem is finished, the Palestinians are behind us. So that if you keep repeating that, expecting different results than what you’re receiving, which is more and more of tragedies and pain and hatred and deepening of the conflict, then you are delusional, you are not living reality.”
He said Palestinian national rights and aspirations “should be fulfilled, and there is global consensus on them, the two-state solution, and people to live in peace and harmony as good neighbours, which would require the end of occupation.”
For his part Abdulaziz said, “Palestinians are adamant, and the Palestinian question and Palestinian issue remains a central issue for the League of Arab States and for all the Arab countries, despite everything that is happening, whether it is Abraham Accords, whether it is any other developments in the political track.”