Ashraf AboArafe
The Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, speaking before the Security Council on behalf of the Arab Group, confirmed that the incident of the killing of World Central Kitchen workers is not “a surprising incident from its perpetrator,” and said that it represents “another evidence added to the record of violations committed by the Israeli occupation authority.” Against relief workers, whose number of victims has reached numbers that the international community cannot remain silent about, in a dangerous precedent that violates all international conventions, laws and norms.”
This came at the UN Security Council meeting, yesterday, Friday, to discuss the situation in Gaza, following the killing of 7 aid workers with the World Central Kitchen organization in several air strikes launched by the Israeli occupation army.
Al-Wasel added: The Arab Group condemns in the strongest terms these crimes committed against the employees of the World Central Kitchen Organization and other relief workers, adding that “this massacre is, without a doubt, new evidence of condemnation of the genocide pursued by the Israeli occupation government in its military operations in Gaza strip”.
The ambassador arriving on behalf of the Arab Group called for an international investigation into this incident, which he said came despite all international calls, continued condemnations, and Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, who he said face the risk of real famine due to… Israeli intransigence.
The ambassador, on behalf of the Arab group, also called on the Security Council to “take a decision under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter that guarantees Israel’s compliance, the occupying power, with the ceasefire, the entry of humanitarian aid, the cessation of the brutal aggression against the Palestinian people, and the provision of protection for them.”
He stressed the importance of the Council fulfilling its assigned role to oblige Israel to comply with the relevant Security Council resolutions and abide by international law and international humanitarian law.
