Palestine calls on UNSC to take real action against Israeli aggression

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Sunday 11 Oct 2015 - 11:22 Makkah mean time-28-12-1436 New York, (IINA) - Palestine's Permanent Observer to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called on the UN Security Council to take real action to diffuse the Israeli intensified aggression against Palestinian people, WAFA reported. In letters sent to the UN Secretary General, President of the Security Council and the President of the UN General Assembly, Mansour called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and to immediately cease its aggression against the Palestinian civilian population. He said: “The international community cannot remain paralyzed while this critical situation continues to escalate and threatens to plunge the region into another cycle of violence that will only bring more bloodshed and suffering and loss of all hope for a better future”. He said that the international community should not allow one more day to go by without providing international protection to the Palestinian people who suffered from nearly five decades of Israeli aggression, violence, and collective punishment, which has resulted in thousands of Palestinian deaths and injuries and trauma to the entire civilian population. He said: “Words are not enough and action must be taken to compel Israel, the occupying power, to halt all its illegal and destructive policies and practices”. Mansour further noted that the international community needs to ensure an immediate protection, consistent with the provisions and obligations of international humanitarian law, to the defenseless Palestinians, saying: “The Palestinian people cannot remain the exception to the responsibility to protect civilians from such atrocities and flagrant breach of the law”. He also stressed the need to prevent the situation from spiraling further out of control, particularly in occupied East Jerusalem, where the Israeli reckless provocations regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque compound have seriously aggravated religious sentiments and threaten to instigate a religious conflict. He conveyed the Palestinian leadership’s grave concern and total condemnation of the continuation of this blatant Israeli aggression and incitement to violence and terror against the Palestinian people. AG/IINA