Palestinian envoy to the UN on Friday urged the Security Council to end the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.
“It is our collective responsibility to bring this hell to an end. It is our collective responsibility to bring this genocide to an end,” Riyad Mansour told a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
The meeting came following last week’s raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the arbitrary arrest and detention of its director, Hussam Abu Safiya.
“You have an obligation to save lives. Palestinian doctors and medical personnel took that mission to heart at the peril of their lives. They did not abandon the victims. Do not abandon them. End Israeli impunity. End the genocide. End this aggression immediately and unconditionally, now,” Mansour told the council.
Palestinian doctors and medical personnel are fighting to save human lives and losing their own while hospitals are under attack, he added.
“They are fighting a battle they cannot win, and yet they are unwilling to surrender and to betray the oath they took,” he said.
Israel has killed more than 45,550 victims, mostly women and children, in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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