Al-Aklouk’s call is based on Israel’s failure to adhere to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, its threat to international peace and security, and its failure to fulfil the obligations that were conditions for its acceptance into the UN. T
he ambassador made the call during an extraordinary session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of permanent delegates on Thursday.
The session was convened to discuss the means to confront the recent acts of genocide, Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, settlement expansion, and the punitive measures enacted by the occupation government.
Ambassador Al-Aklouk stated that "Israeli-Zionist terrorism has unjustly expelled Palestinians from their homes, resulting in nearly nine million refugees, displaced persons, and displaced persons among the Palestinian people today. People did not defend each other from injustice, falsehood, and harm until mosques, where the name of God is frequently mentioned, were demolished."
He added: “In the past nine months, Israel has completely or partially destroyed 608 mosques and three churches in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, more than 136,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, wounded, or buried under the rubble, 70 percent of whom were children and women.”
Al-Aklouk pointed out that Israel has killed 16,000 children and injured 34,000, with 3,600 children still trapped under the rubble and 1,500 having lost their limbs or eyes. Additionally, Israel has orphaned 17,000 children, targeting them deliberately rather than considering them collateral damage.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported that the number of children killed in Palestine over the past nine months exceeds the total number of children killed in all global conflicts over the past four years, the ambassador stated.
Israel starved 34 children to death, with the remaining children in Gaza suffering from food insecurity and many at risk of dying from hunger, thirst, or disease due to the ongoing blockade and the use of starvation as a tool for genocide, he added.
All children in Gaza are deprived of education, and newborns have not received necessary vaccinations, Al-Aklouk continued. "Israel has killed 10,600 women, left 60,000 pregnant women vulnerable to death before, during, or after childbirth, and destroyed all safe childbirth methods," Al-Aklouk said.
"This is not collateral damage, nor is it war; it is a crime of genocide."
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation government, particularly the so-called cabinet or war council, approved a set of aggressive policies, procedures, and sanctions against the State of Palestine on 28 June.
These measures aim to prevent Palestinian independence, further plans to annex occupied West Bank lands, expand settler colonies, undermine the Palestinian government's powers, pirate its funds, and impose sanctions on Palestinian officials.
These aggressive steps included the legalization of five settlement outposts, which had been established by terrorist settler gangs without prior permission from the occupation government, he said.
Now, the Israeli government has granted them official approval.
These settlement outposts are strategically located in important geographical areas of the occupied West Bank, further fragmenting Palestinian land and deepening the apartheid system, Al-Aklouk noted.
The ambassador said that Arab countries must reassess their stance on Israel and its crimes against the Palestinian people.
He argued that the language of condemnation, demands, and advocacy alone is insufficient without economic, legal, political, and diplomatic measures to ensure that Israel and the world take these concerns seriously.
He stressed that the Palestinian cause is not only a national, moral, and humanitarian issue, but rather a necessity for Arab national security, prestige, and dignity.
Today, Israel is waging a military war against at least three Arab countries -- Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon -- and threatens the national security of the two sisters, Egypt and Jordan, he added.
He stressed that hope arises from the enduring and legendary steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land, despite the hellish conditions they face in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.
Hope is also fuelled by the recent recognition of the State of Palestine by nine countries: Spain, Norway, Ireland, Slovenia, Armenia, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas.
Additionally, a United Nations resolution affirmed the right and eligibility of the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the UN.
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