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‘We will not disappear’

Muhammad Amin

Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour has implored the UN Security Council to take urgent action to tackle the famine and genocide in Gaza, throwing down the gauntlet and declaring: “We will not disappear”.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,665 Palestinians and wounded 103,076 since October 7, 2023, but the UN’s top body has remained inert throughout the relentless mass murder.
“Let us pause and understand what it means that Israel has decided and implemented famine as a method of war for the purposes of ethnic cleansing and to advance its colonial objectives,” Mansour told the council.
“Everything we warned against, everything Israel denied, is happening before our eyes,” he added. “We are at the last stages of an orchestrated plan to empty wide areas of Gaza from its Palestinian population.”
Maktoob Media reports Mansour also condemned Israeli plans to annex the occupied West Bank where settlers are on the rampage again, knowing if they face UK or US sanctions, the worst they’ll experience are visa restrictions next time they’re planning a vacation.
“Palestinian people are faced with death, dispossession and displacement yet again, but once again… we will not disappear,” he said. “We are rooted in our land as the olive trees.”
The UN’s aid chief told the Security Council that the world is “witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes in Gaza” as Israel dismisses warnings of famine in the enclave as “dishonest” and “slanderous.”
As he was speaking, Israel’s murder continued. Its killers targeted a gathering of Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza City amidst a severe food crisis and skyrocketing prices of commodities due to the blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities, Middle East Eye reports.
And Israeli drones are deliberately targeting children, often while they lie shattered and defenceless on the ground after an air attack. British surgeon Nizam Mamode told the International Development Committee in a hearing on Gaza: “This is not an occasional thing. This was day after day after day operating on children who would say, ‘I was lying on the ground after a bomb dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me’.”
Mamode worked at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza for a month between August and September for the British charity Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP).
He said he spent the entire month in the hospital partly because it was not safe to travel around, but also because Israel bombed MAP’s guest house in southern Gaza in January, an act that Mamode believes was deliberate, Middle East Eye reports.
“My biggest fear while I was there was being killed by the Israelis,” he said.
“All of those guest houses are in the Israeli army’s computers and are designated safe houses, so my assumption is that it was a deliberate attack and the aim behind it is to discourage aid workers from coming,” Mamode said.
He ascribed the same aim to five Israeli attacks on UN convoys, including one while he was in Gaza.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Wednesday the occupation hit a residential building Tuesday night near the Al-Qahira Hall in Gaza City where several Palestinians were waiting for humanitarian assistance, killing and injuring scores of people.
Several of those dead and injured remained under the rubble while others were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital.
Other strikes targeted the city of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.

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