© IDFIsraeli occupation forces enter the devastated Gaza Strip on 1 November, 2023. Moscow's UN envoy blasted western states for allowing the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza under the pretext of self-defense.
"I also cannot leave unmentioned the hypocrisy of the US and its allies, who in other, completely different situations call for compliance with humanitarian law, establish investigative commissions, impose sanctions against those who use force only as an extreme measure to stop the years-long violence," Nebenzya said during the UN General Assembly's special session on Palestine.
"And today, seeing the horrifying destruction in Gaza, which exceeds everything that they criticize in other regional contexts multifold - strikes at civilian facilities, death of thousands of children and horrifying suffering of civilians amid a total blockage, they play mum. All they can do is to keep talking about Israel's alleged right for self-defense, which, as an occupying state, it does not have, as was confirmed by the [UN] International Court consultative ruling in 2004," the Russian official stressed.
The 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling decreed that Israel, as "an occupying power," had no right under international law to build a separation wall in occupied Jerusalem. However, as with their usual approach, Tel Aviv ignored the ruling.
Despite Israel's attempts to ignore international law, many prominent organizations and international bodies — including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU), the International Criminal Court (ICC), Amnesty International (AI), and Human Rights Watch (HRW) — all argue that Israel has occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza, since 1967.
Elsewhere in his speech, the Russian UN envoy underscored that Moscow recognizes Israel's "right to ensure its security" but added that this right "could be fully guaranteed only in case of a fair resolution of the Palestinian problem based on recognized UN Security Council resolutions."
Nebenzya also called for an immediate "stop the bloodshed" to "prevent the crisis from engulfing the entire region" and said that negotiators must be allowed to reach a "diplomatic solution."
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"One will have to walk down this path sooner or later; the only question is how many innocent people will die in the meantime," he noted.
Last month, the US vetoed Brazil's draft UN Security Council resolution, citing its "disappointment" over the absence of mentioning Israel's "right for self-defense."
Since the start of Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza on 7 October, about 8,800 Palestinians have been killed, including 3,648 children and 2,290 women.
Although Israel and its western sponsors continue to claim that the army is trying to "limit" civilian casualties, Israeli bombs have regularly been dropped on hospitals, humanitarian shelters, residential buildings, schools, ambulances, and civilian convoys.
On Thursday, the UN human rights office said that this week's attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp "could amount to war crimes."
"Given the high number of civilian casualties [and] the scale of destruction following Israeli air strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes," the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights posted on social media.
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UNICEF has also deplored the actions of the Israeli army, calling Gaza "a graveyard for children."
With no end in sight to the crisis, the US government has outright refused to call for a ceasefire and instead maintains that Israel has its "full support." However, on Wednesday night, US President Joe Biden signaled a subtle departure from this policy, saying during a campaign rally that there should be a humanitarian "pause" in Gaza.
Washington has deployed several warships and dozens of military cargo planes to the Eastern Mediterranean in preparation for a broader conflict in West Asia. US troops have reportedly also been heavily involved in Israel's protracted attempts to take control of northern Gaza.
Reader Comments
We are meant to believe that 7/10 succeeded because Israel had no prior intelligence and everyone was slacking off that day. So what immediate threat is Hamas to Israel now, surely all those machine gun points are going to be double manned and fully armed, no prisoners will be able to escape from the concentration camp
They have become the problem.
Tyranny is here. Now.
The U.N. is destroyed deliberately and Not one Western power wishes to Use it in a helpful way.
Effectively irrelevant.
All Parties have no restraints, If they no longer abide by UN resolutions or apply the 4th Geneva convention ,they are free to conduct a war however they want with no one to take them to task.
Any Government that has supported the current state of affairs or has sought advantage over others by taking advantage , those that 'buck' the system are the dishonest parties and prove this by their actions.
It is now evident that Israel got the approval of certain Countries that the rest of the world now see as accomplices to Genocide.
In the West that is known as dropping the ball. Making yourself irrelevant to your own electorates.
2024 is a big Election year in the West,expect all current holders to be dumped, that is if we are all still here by then!
In my opinion, all these oppressive, tyrannical regimes are funded by the Bankster class. They try out an “ism” here and an “ism there until they perfect their brand of oppression. They feel overconfident because they think their technology(digital gulag) is “the ring to bind them all.”
However Real reality is not like that.
experiments have shown that when animals, apes or Humans are treated badly in captivity they will form stronger bonds to oppose the tyrant behaving badly.
Real reality can't be from a computer, or an algorythm. It is not a political theory and everywhere where excessive force has been used, the population increases their resistance.
Which is why Lao Tzu said 'that the Nation that shows mercy will win, and when a small Nation is defeated by a larger Nation, the larger Nation will take on the character of the smaller Nation.
Sun Tzu the great Chinese general stated that any defence of a Nation that led to it's own destruction was as good as treachery and should be treated as such.
Life is a bitch for the biggest bullies.