In its latest report issued yesterday the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories (OCHA) said the Israeli occupation authorities demolished 59 buildings and displaced 96 Palestinians in the West Bank within the past two weeks.
According to the report, the occupation forces injured 615 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, including 24 children, the youngest of whom is a three-month-old baby.
During the same period of two weeks, the occupation forces carried out 91 search operations, and arrested 158 Palestinians throughout the West Bank.
Israel, which has faced record number of global condemnations since its founding, is well aware that it is a country based on injustice, therefore it demolishes buildings existing before its establishment under the pretext of lack of building permits. Under the pretext of controlling protests, it shoots on children in cars with their families, fires live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and poison gas canisters on innocent Palestinians.
The actual reason behind these acts of aggression is grabbing more land, confiscating properties, terrorizing innocent people and uprooting them from their homeland by forcing to leave land that they had no other home except. The State of Qatar recently warned against the danger of continuing the current situation in the Palestinian territories and the lack of a sustainable settlement of the Palestinian cause.
In statement made during UN Security Council meeting on the “Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question”, Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations H E Ambassador Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, drew attention to the repeated provocations and attacks continuously being carried out by the Israeli occupying forces in Jerusalem and settlers on the Islamic and Christian holy sites, especially the Holy Mosque.
Sheikha Alya called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities in enforcing international law, implementing its resolutions, putting an end to the illegal occupation and settlement and supporting the achievement of peace.
The statement stressed that any attempts to change the legal, historical and cultural status of the occupied city of Jerusalem constitute a violation of international law, relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, and that provocative practices and other illegal measures, such as confiscating and demolishing Palestinian property, as in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods, reflect a policy to Judaize Jerusalem, expand settlements and disregard international law and resolutions of international legitimacy.
The international community must assume legal and moral responsibility to address the suffering of millions of Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip, and the occupied territories in general.
