Palestine urged UNSC (United Nations Security Council) to
take practical steps against Israeli apartheid against Palestinians.
Palestine's Ambassador to the United
Nations Riyad Mansour has slammed the Israeli apartheid against his fellow
countrymen. He called on the Security Council to take practical steps to stop
the crime against Palestinians.
An UNSC meeting on the Middle East peace process took place
on Wednesday. At the meeting, he described how the rights of Palestinians have
been denied for 75 years by the Tel Aviv regime.
He also wore a mask printed with the phrase “End Apartheid.”
Reportedly, he complained that Palestinians are uprooted from their homes,
displaced, and unable to return. Earlier, Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of
olive trees in several West Bank cities.
The ambassador also cited examples of “settler colonialism”
to talk about Israeli apartheid. He said that the Palestinians see their houses
demolished as Israeli settlements expand in the occupied lands. He said that they took their land and
properties. He called on Security Council to take necessary measures to stop
crimes against Palestinian people in Jerusalem.
He also accused the Tel Aviv regime’s authorities of
withholding hundreds of bodies of Palestinian victims. He also said that the
regime has designated human rights defenders in the occupied Palestinian
territories as terrorists. He added, “Apartheid is real.” Mansour said that
Israel does not give "right" to security to Palestinians.
His remarks came weeks after Amnesty International issued a
280-page report charging Israel with the crime of apartheid. Earlier, the
Palestinian Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government directly responsible
for the Jewish settlers’ practices in the West Bank. It also criticised the
Israeli government’s policy. The
Palestinian Foreign Ministry also expressed its grief over the United
States and the international community’s silence on the violations and crimes
against Palestinian people by Israel.
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