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Background
The Security Council met this afternoon, at the requests of Qatar and the Arab League, to consider the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Those requests are contained in documents S/2006/458 and S/2006/462.
Also before the Council are identical letters dated 28 June 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations, addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (document A/ES/-10/341-S/2006/443). It states that Israel, the occupying Power, had launched a major air and ground military assault on the Gaza Strip on 28 June, threatening the lives of the defenceless Palestinian civilian population in the area, and causing the further deterioration and destabilization of the grave situation on the ground. After deploying thousands of troops in recent days along the southern border of the Gaza Strip, following the capture of an Israeli soldier on 25 June from a military outpost of the occupying forces on the Gaza border, the occupying Power has begun firing missiles and launching artillery at Gaza.
These attacks are deepening the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinian people and causing extensive physical and environmental destruction on the ground, with far-reaching detrimental consequences for the population, the letter states. It should be highlighted that, even prior to the capture of the soldier of the occupying forces, Israeli officials had been issuing a series of threats regarding the intention to launch a major invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The international community must exert urgent efforts to bring the Israeli military invasion of Gaza to a halt and halt the collective punishment and crimes being committed against the Palestinian people by the occupying Power with sheer impunity, it states. The Council should take the necessary measures and condemn the aggression, as well as demand that Israel, the occupying Power, cease its attacks, withdraw its occupying forces and abide by its obligations under international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, in all of its actions vis-à-vis the Palestinian civilian population under its occupation.
Background
The Security Council met this afternoon, at the requests of Qatar and the Arab League, to consider the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Those requests are contained in documents S/2006/458 and S/2006/462.
Also before the Council are identical letters dated 28 June 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations, addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (document A/ES/-10/341-S/2006/443). It states that Israel, the occupying Power, had launched a major air and ground military assault on the Gaza Strip on 28 June, threatening the lives of the defenceless Palestinian civilian population in the area, and causing the further deterioration and destabilization of the grave situation on the ground. After deploying thousands of troops in recent days along the southern border of the Gaza Strip, following the capture of an Israeli soldier on 25 June from a military outpost of the occupying forces on the Gaza border, the occupying Power has begun firing missiles and launching artillery at Gaza.
These attacks are deepening the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinian people and causing extensive physical and environmental destruction on the ground, with far-reaching detrimental consequences for the population, the letter states. It should be highlighted that, even prior to the capture of the soldier of the occupying forces, Israeli officials had been issuing a series of threats regarding the intention to launch a major invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The international community must exert urgent efforts to bring the Israeli military invasion of Gaza to a halt and halt the collective punishment and crimes being committed against the Palestinian people by the occupying Power with sheer impunity, it states. The Council should take the necessary measures and condemn the aggression, as well as demand that Israel, the occupying Power, cease its attacks, withdraw its occupying forces and abide by its obligations under international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, in all of its actions vis-à-vis the Palestinian civilian population under its occupation.
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What a load of BS. The Palestinians are not even good liars.
But we sure wouldn't want any harm to come to all those "defenceless" women and children, would we?
There are no civilians among the Palestinians in Gaza, and if there are, they should leave immediately - all 10 of them.
As for the UN, Israel should ignore them. But, of course, they won't, anymore than they will ignore the pressure from Bush and Rice to cut a deal with the terrorists to end the crisis.
But wait, I thought it was U.S. policy not to negotiate with terrorists! I guess that does not apply to Israel, and if the terrorists are democratically elected. What a hypocrite Bush is.
