The Palestinian Authority has requested “international protection” from the UN Security Council. Israel, for its part, strongly opposed a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that it would only serve to prop up “Hamas’ reign of terror.”
The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riad al Malikihas asked the UN Security Council for “international protection” because it considers that what is happening in the Gaza Strip cannot be called a “war” but rather is “a bloodbath that no one can justify” and denounced it must come to an end.
The Palestinian foreign minister has claimed that Israel is “wiping Palestine from the map” while complaining to the world that it is at risk of its own destruction. “We are left out of history and geography,” he said.
“Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinians (…) They did not lose their lives, they took them,” said the head of Palestinian diplomacy, taking stock of the number of victims, which is increasing “at an unprecedented pace.” modern history,” as United Nations officials have occasionally warned.
Palestine, he added, is at a “historic crossroads” and stressed that “the only path to peace” is through the creation of a state. In this sense he also pointed it out “Without Gaza there can be no Palestine”an area that “occupies a special place in national history” and that is now “bleeding” and “suffering.”
“We need international action to end (Israeli) impunity and prevent the repetition of crimes that happen every day and in broad daylight,” Al Maliki said during his speech to the Security Council, which met for the first time since then to discuss the conflict and adopt a resolution calling for the protection of the Gaza Strip.
Israel, for its part, has strongly opposed a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that it would only serve to prop up “Hamas’ reign of terror,” as its UN ambassador put it. Gilad Erdan.
Erdan found it “shocking” that the Security Council or “any other United Nations body” had not yet condemned this “Atrocious crimes committed by Hamas”a “baseless” and “purely evil” action that made October 7 the deadliest day for the Jewish community since the Holocaust.
“It is clear that the UN is dominated by those who have no real interest in a solution. All organizations are now weapons against Israel,” the ambassador said, also emphasizing the “central role” Iran plays in destabilizing the Middle East and in helping organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.