Dear António Guterres, can your resolutions and condemnations save the people of Palestine
UN chief says ‘clear violations of international humanitarian law’ in Gaza
Dear António Guterres,
Thank you for speaking the truth when the whole world would not acknowledge it and turn a blind eye to the real reason for this conflict. But can your resolutions and condemnations save the people of Palestine?
The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 25, 2023
Those horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
7-days ago UNSC failed to adopt a Brazil-led resolution on humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict due to U.S. veto.
It’s on the record that, from 1967 to 1989 the UN Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict, with many concerning the Palestinians. Since 2012, a number of resolutions have been issued dealing directly with the modern Palestinian State.
This is 56 Years of suffering, losing possessions, seeing loved ones killed one after another after another, economic stifling of the people of Palestine.
The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devolved by settlements and plagued by violence. Their economy was stifled. Their people were displaced and their homes were demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again called for a ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Hamas during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, October 24.
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel “did not happen in a vacuum”.
Speaking before the 15-member UN Security Council on Tuesday, Guterres said “It is important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,”
“But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he added.
Guterres also criticized Israel without naming it, saying “Protecting civilians does not mean ordering more than one million people to evacuate to the south, where there is no shelter, no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel, and then continuing to bomb the south itself.”
Israel after cutting off supplies of water, food, fuel, and electricity to the enclave’s 2.3 million residents, has killed at least 5,791 people, according to authorities in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas.
More than one million people have been displaced, as Israel ordered residents of northern Gaza to evacuate to the south, while Israeli air raids continue throughout the territory.
