UN called to compel Israel to cease military attacks
Palestine-Israel-UN, Politics, 8/31/2006

Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on the international community to take action to compel Israel to cease its military attacks and to scrupulously abide by international law, particularly the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

"We reiterate that for all of these war crimes, State terrorism and systematic human rights violations committed against the Palestinian people, Israel, the occupying Power, must be held accountable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice," Ambassador Mansour said yesterday in three identical letters to the UN Secretary General, the President of the UN Security Council and the President of the UN General Assembly.

Mansour said that as the international community remains silent, Israel, the occupying Power, continues to wage its brutal military campaign against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, especially in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces has killed at least 20 citizens, including children, in the neighbourhood of al-Shajaia in an on going attack launched five days ago.

"The total number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the military aggression against Gaza and its inhabitants has increased to well-over 220, including 46 children and 12 women. In addition, at least 755 others, including 203 children, 28 women, 4 paramedics and 6 journalist, have been wounded, many seriously, Mansour said.

He asserted that it is starkly evident that it is the intention of Israel, the occupying Power, to cause as much death and destruction, both civilian and material, as possible in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, through its deliberate use of excessive, indiscriminate and completely disproportionate force against the occupied population.

Mansour added that Israel indicated that it will in fact continue with its aggression and its illegal policies, further compounding the suffering of the Palestinian people, whom are already living in impoverished conditions under its brutal occupation.

The Palestine Ambassador called on the UN to bring the Israeli war criminals to justice for committing state terrorism and violating human rights of Palestinian people.

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