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Israel is “literally erasing us from the map”: Palestinian minister condemned at the UN

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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki told the UN Security Council that Israel is “wiping Palestine off the map.” “We are being excluded from history and geography,” Al Malki

Israel is “literally erasing us from the map”: Palestinian minister condemned at the UN

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki told the UN Security Council that Israel is “wiping Palestine off the map.”

“We are being excluded from history and geography,” Al Malki said, recalling how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waved before the UN General Assembly in September a map of the Middle East in which Palestine has disappeared and its place has been completely taken by Israel.

Al-Maliki, along with foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries, attended a council meeting that the Chinese presidency convened at the ministerial level to draw more attention to China’s concerns about the war in the Gaza Strip, a conflict in which Beijing remains very critical. position towards Israel from the first moment.

“It is Palestine that is threatened by the plan of its destruction”

“It is Palestine that faces a plan for its destruction, a plan carried out in broad daylight with laws and policies brutally enforced by soldiers and settlers,” he insisted.

He emphasized that in parallel with the war in Gaza Israel carries out its own campaign against the West Bank.

Shortly before Al Malki’s speech, UN Special Coordinator for Palestine Thor Wennesland provided some figures on the violence recorded in the West Bank, mainly by Israeli settlers, which has already claimed the lives of 154 Palestinians (37 of them children) since October. 7, when the war in Gaza began.

Al Malki wondered how the whole world rejects Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories and at the same time talks about responsibility:

Such accountability cannot come from a government whose agenda is settler-led, settler-funded, and settler-funded.

“We need international protection and action”

“We need international protection and international action against impunity to prevent the repetition of these crimes (by settlers), committed daily and in plain sight,” Al Malki demanded.

And, despite all the Israeli policies to destroy Palestine, Al Malki said that they would be useless:

“No force on the ground can eradicate the Palestinians from Palestine, nor Palestine from their hearts, wherever they may be. The Palestinian people are here and will remain here,” he warned. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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