Varsen Aghabekian Shahin says worldwide group should take concrete steps to finish Israeli impunity for abuses.
The worldwide group should “shoulder its duty” and take motion in opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian international affairs minister has advised Al Jazeera earlier than an emergency United Nations Safety Council session.
In an interview on Saturday, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin mentioned the 15-member council should uphold worldwide legislation when it convenes at UN headquarters in New York on Sunday to debate the state of affairs within the Gaza Strip.
The assembly was organised in response to Israel’s newly introduced plan to grab Gaza Metropolis, which has drawn widespread condemnation from world leaders.
“I anticipate that the worldwide group stands for worldwide legislation and worldwide humanitarian legislation,” Aghabekian Shahin advised Al Jazeera.
“What has been getting into Palestine for the final 22 months is nothing however a genocide, and it’s half and parcel of Israel’s expansionist ideology that desires to take over the whole lot of the occupied State of Palestine.”
The Israeli safety cupboard approved plans this week to grab Gaza Metropolis, forcibly displacing almost a million Palestinians to focus zones within the south of the bombarded coastal enclave.
Palestinians have rejected the Israeli push to pressure them out of the town whereas human rights teams and the UN have warned that the plan will worsen an already dire humanitarian disaster in Gaza and result in additional mass casualties.
Israel has pledged to push forward with its plans regardless of the rising criticism, saying that it desires to “free Gaza from Hamas”.
The nation’s prime international ally, america, has not commented immediately on the plan to grab Gaza Metropolis. However US President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that he wouldn’t block an Israeli push to take over all of Gaza.
Aghabekian Shahin advised Al Jazeera that if Trump – whose administration continues to offer unwavering diplomatic and navy assist to Israel – desires to succeed in an answer, Palestinian rights have to be taken under consideration.
“There can be no peace in Israel-Palestine, or the area for that matter, and even the world at giant, if the rights of the Palestinians are usually not revered,” she mentioned, noting that this implies a Palestinian state have to be established.
The minister additionally slammed latest remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the future governance of Gaza.
In a social media put up on Friday, Netanyahu mentioned he desires “a peaceable civilian administration” to be established within the enclave, “one that’s not the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas, and never some other terrorist group”.
However Aghabekian Shahin mentioned it’s as much as Palestinians to determine who ought to govern them.
“The one which has the authorized and the political authority on Gaza in the present day is the PLO,” she mentioned, referring to the Palestine Liberation Group.
“If Gaza desires to come back again to the core, which is the whole lot of the Palestinian land, then it has to change into underneath the management and governance of the Palestinian Authority, the PLO.”
Aghabekian Shahin additionally condemned the worldwide group for failing to behave as Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution have confronted a surge in Israeli military and settler attacks within the shadow of the nation’s battle on Gaza.
“It’s the inaction that has emboldened the Israelis, together with the settlers, to do no matter they’re doing for the final six a long time, since day one of many 1967 occupation,” she mentioned.
“The occasions are very harmful now, and it’s necessary that the worldwide group shoulders its duty. The impunity with which Israel was fortunately transferring ought to cease.”
