🇵🇰 Shah Mahmood Qureshi Speech at United Nation | UNGA Session For Palestine | 20 May 2021

Описание: Qureshi addresses UNGA session to highlight Israeli atrocities against Palestinians

Shah Mahmood Qureshi UN Speech Palestine Israel gaza

Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi addressed the 67th plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to highlight Israeli atrocities against Palestinians on Thursday.

"There are times in history when decisions of nations are remebered by posterity. This is one such moment," Qureshi said, as he began his address.

"What we do today or cannot do will be recorded in history. Driven by arrogance and emboldened by impunity, Israel has mounted a relentless onslaught on the occupied and beleaguered people of Palestine," he said.

He said that one week of Israeli attacks have led to more than 250 Palestinians being killed and thousands injured — one third of which are women and children.

"Death echoes in every home in Gaza," Qureshi said, to lay stress on the gravity of the situation. He also recalled one such tragedy, in which all ten members of the Abu Hattab family had perished in Israeli strikes.

"Hundreds of such tragedies are being enacted every hour in Gaza and other parts of the Palestinian territories. So far over 50,000 Palestinians have fled their homes in Gaza," he said, adding that these people have very poor and limited access to water, food, hygiene and health services.

The foreign minister said hospitals and sanitation services rely on electricity but fuel for power plants "has almost run out".

"Gaza has plunged in darkness [...] the only light is that of Israeli explosions," he said.

Qureshi said such is the existence of Palestine, where "in full view of the world Israeli airstrikes bring down entire buildings to kill and terrorise innocent Palestinians and even silence the media".

"It is time to say enough. The voice of the Palestinian people cannot and will not be silenced," he said.

The foreign minister said the representatives of the Islamic world are there to speak with and for Palestine.

He said it is "appalling" that the United Nations Security Council has been unable to do what it is tasked with — to maintain international peace and security. He said it has even failed to demand a cessation of hostilities, and warned that those preventing it from doing so "bear a heavy responsibility".

He said the United Nations General Assembly, must then, assume its own responsibility. "We must not fail the Palestinian people at this critical juncture."

A few hours prior to the joint debate, Qureshi told Geo News that the foremost aim of representatives of Muslim countries gathered for the session will be to demand an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza.

The Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri also issued a statement ahead of Qureshi's address, following his weekly briefing to the media.

“We hope the special meeting of the UN General Assembly will help send a strong message on behalf of the OIC [Organization of Islamic Cooperation] to the international community to help end the Israeli aggression and to take concrete steps to find a solution to the Palestinian issue,” Chaudhri said.

As part of Pakistan’s intensive diplomatic outreach efforts to mobilise international support, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is currently in New York to participate in the UN General Assembly meeting on the Palestine issue today, he said.

The Foreign Office spokesperson said in clear violation of all humanitarian norms and international human rights laws, Israel had staged series of heavy airstrikes in Gaza, attacked innocent civilians in and outside Al-Aqsa Mosque, forced evictions, and imposed restrictions on fundamental freedoms of the Palestinian people.

“The indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli forces has resulted in deaths and injuries to a large number of innocent Palestinians, including women and children,” he added.

The Foreign Office spokesperson said since the current escalation in Palestine, Pakistan was at the forefront of diplomatic efforts to highlight the worsening situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

“Our outreach efforts are aimed at formulating a unified and unequivocal response from the international community against the Israeli aggression,” he maintained.

The foreign minister had arrived a day earlier along with his counterparts from Turkey, Palestine, Sudan and Tunis.


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