29 April 2025
The Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine recalled that the Council has adopted binding resolutions to stop the bloodshed. However, there remains a declared punitive siege by Israel to deprive 2 million Palestinians of food, water, medicine and electricity.
“There is no shortage of bombs falling on Gaza, but there is an imposed shortage of everything else,” he stressed, condemning the use of “starvation as a weapon of war against an entire civilian population”.
Calling for an immediate ceasefire to be resumed, he recalled that Israeli authorities had recently denied him entry “to my own country that I proudly represent here”. Meanwhile, on one side, there is a Palestinian leadership clearly and unequivocally committed to the two-State solution, while on the other is “an Israeli leadership dedicated to its destruction”.
He pointed to solutions whereby Hamas would no longer rule Gaza, and transitional governance arrangements would allow the Palestinian Authority to fully assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip. In view of the June conference on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, he called on all States who have yet to do so to recognize the State of Palestine without further delay.
“The Palestinian people are in a cage, killed and starved, day after day after day,” he stressed, while voicing fear that “the world is growing accustomed to such horrors”.
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip should be accompanied by the end of attacks and repression by Israeli occupation forces and settlers across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Citing “another delusional speech two days ago” by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two-State solution meant the destruction of Israel, he reaffirmed the need for an independent State of Palestine living side by side with Israel. “Fanatical delusions will destroy our region,” he stated.