“It is time to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people,” Vice Chancellor Gerardo Peñalver said on the second day of the open debate convened by the body on the crisis in the Middle East.
Cuba reiterated its proposal to urgently send an international protection mission to Gaza.
Cuba's first deputy foreign minister, Gerardo Peñalver, called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to end collective punishment in Gaza, calling the situation in the enclave catastrophic.
“It is time to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people; “We reiterate our unequivocal call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to bellicose rhetoric,” the vice chancellor added on the second day of the body’s open debate on the Middle East crisis.
The Permanent Representative of the Caribbean State to the United Nations considered the urgent mobilization of humanitarian assistance to the Strip, under the coordination of the United Nations, essential to address the catastrophic situation in the Strip.
Peñalver called on the United States government to end the paralysis of the Security Council, which must fulfill its mandate to put an end to Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinian population and the escalation of violence and massacres in Gaza.
This international unity cannot remain inactive in the face of Tel Aviv's illegal annexation policy, all its colonization practices and its apartheid system, which have persisted in the occupied Palestinian territories for more than seven decades, the diplomat emphasized.
The Cuban representative supported the call for Palestine to be admitted as a permanent member of the United Nations, as well as the initiative to urgently convene a peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations focused on safeguarding the inalienable rights of this people.
He reiterated the Caribbean State's proposal to urgently deploy an international protection mission to Gaza, approved by the General Assembly, to ensure the safety and protection of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of emergency humanitarian assistance.
The Vice Chairman called for Israel's complete and unconditional withdrawal from the Syrian Golan and all occupied Arab territories and a cessation of aggression against Syria, and condemned the military attacks by the United States and its allies against Yemen, which violate international law.
“Acts of this kind encourage the expansion of war and genocide in the Gaza Strip. “Violence is not the solution to conflicts in the Middle East,” he emphasized.
He also condemned the terrorist attack reported earlier this month in the Iranian city of Kerman during the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.
