PALESTINIAN ENVOY SLAMS UN SECURITY COUNCIL INACTION
Gaza, 23 Ramadan 1435/21 July 2014 (MINA) – Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour has criticized the UN Security Council for its inaction in the face of Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Mansour made the remarks late on Sunday as the Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss two weeks of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Monday.
“This is the third time that we come to the Security Council since this aggression (began) and our people are extremely frustrated and fed up with the Security Council and the international community because they are not doing what they should be doing in order to stop this aggression against our people,” he told reporters.
The Palestinian UN envoy stressed that if the Security Council, which is supposed to be responsible for international peace and security, does not stop the Israeli assault, “where should we go in order to seek justice and stopping this aggression against our people?”
“We will not give up and come back again and again to the Security Council. We hope that the Security Council rises up to the level of shouldering its responsibility to stop this carnage,” he added.
Israel began its airstrikes on the besieged enclave on July 8. Last Thursday, thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion into the densely-populated strip as well.
At least 505 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past 14 days, while more than 3,000 others were injured. More than 100 people were killed across Gaza on Sunday. Over 70 of them, mostly children, were residents of the Shejaiya district in eastern Gaza.
Secretary-General of the League of Arab State, Nabil al-Arabi, said in a statement Sunday that the Zionist Israeli massacre in the Gaza neighborhood of Shuja’iyya is a war crime against innocent Palestinians and a dangerous escalation of the situation.
Al-Arabi called for an immediate cessation to the Zionist Israeli massacre and ‘barbarous ground incursion’ that is taking place in Shuja’iyya in addition to the ongoing bombardment across Gaza, WAFA, Palestinian News & Information Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
He called to provide the necessary protection to the Palestinian civilians, holding Zionist Israel fully responsible for this ‘hideous crime’ which claimed the lives of dozens of innocent Palestinians.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs called, in a statement Sunday, upon the international community, the United Nations and the UN Security Council to act to stop the Zionist Israeli aggression against innocent Palestinians in Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza. (T/P012/p04)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
