Qatar has called on the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, to move beyond its current state of inaction and double standards to implement necessary measures to halt the war in Gaza.
This includes stopping its dire humanitarian consequences, ending the Israeli occupation, safeguarding Palestinian rights, ensuring their entitlement to all legitimate rights, establishing their sovereign state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, and holding accountable those responsible for violations and crimes committed against them.
The statement was delivered by Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Hend Abdulrahman Al Muftah, during an interactive dialogue on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on “The Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council.
Highlighting the international community’s warnings against the grave repercussions of any ground invasion in Rafah and the risks of continuing to ignore such calls, Al Muftah condemned the persistent denial of entry to High Commissioner’s staff into the Occupied Palestinian Territories by Israeli authorities.
This, she emphasized, is a deliberate attempt by Israel to obscure information and distort facts regarding severe violations, racist and illegal settlement policies, and crimes against Palestinians for over 75 years, including the recent aggression and genocidal crimes in Gaza, policies of starvation, collective punishment, deprivation of necessities, indiscriminate use of lethal force, deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure, targeting of civilians, humanitarian workers, UN staff, journalists, arbitrary detention, torture of detainees including children and women, and the forced displacement and expulsion of Gaza’s residents in stark violation of relevant international laws and conventions.
