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UN / ISRAEL PALESTINE CONFLICT
STORY: UN / PALESTINE
TRT: 3.17
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
22 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegate
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is my hope and belief that these talks will lead to results and an end to the fighting in the very near future. Of course, there are many obstacles and complexities. This is a mission of solidarity and peace.”
5. Med shot, delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“A ceasefire is essential – but without addressing the deeper issues, we will never solve the problem, we will merely delay it for yet another time. The cycle will continue – except the bitterness and hatred will become that much more entrenched each time it comes around. Quite simply, if a people are left with despair and occupation, the problem won’t disappear, it will only grow.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“We are haunted by the images of babies, boys, girls, women and men murdered by the Israeli occupying forces in their homes, in the streets and in refugee camps; by the images of the thousands of wounded people, their lives forever marred; by the sight of thousands of Palestinian families again dispossessed and fleeing for safety from the Israeli assaults in this endless Nakba against our people.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
“These are the human faces of our victims and these are samples of those who suffer the most, and the largest number of them killed, the children. We are not numbers, we are human beings.”
11. Med shot, Israeli Ambassador
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Yitshak Roet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“President Abbas has a choice to make. He can continue to remain silent and stand in support of Hamas. Or he can assume the mantle of leadership by dissolving the unity government. The choice is his, be a part of the problem or part of the solution.”
13. Med shot, delegates
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“As grave as the situation is now, and it is indeed grave, it can get worse. If the fighting persists, it will. Humanitarian conditions will continue to deteriorate, more civilians will suffer and more innocent lives will be lost. The only solution is an immediate ceasefire. This could not be more urgent or more important given the devastating consequences of the violence for civilian populations.”
15. Pan left, Security Council
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (22 July) expressed hope that current negotiations “will lead to results and an end to the fighting in the very near future” between Israel and Palestine.
Ban told the Security Council via teleconference from Ramallah that “a ceasefire is essential – but without addressing the deeper issues, we will never solve the problem, we will merely delay it for yet another time.”
He said that “quite simply, if a people are left with despair and occupation, the problem won’t disappear, it will only grow.”
The Secretary-General told the Council that the parties must heed the Security Council’s call to return to negotiations in order to find an end to this conflict through a viable two-state solution.
In his address to the Council, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said “we are haunted by the images of babies, boys, girls, women and men murdered by the Israeli occupying forces in their homes, in the streets and in refugee camps; by the images of the thousands of wounded people, their lives forever marred; by the sight of thousands of Palestinian families again dispossessed and fleeing for safety from the Israeli assaults in this endless Nakba against our people.”
Mansour showed a series of photographs of the death and destruction in Gaza and said “these are the human faces of our victims and these are samples of those who suffer the most, and the largest number of them killed, the children. We are not numbers, we are human beings.”
Israeli Ambassador David Yitshak Roet told the Council that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “has a choice to make.”
Roet said “he can continue to remain silent and stand in support of Hamas” or “he can assume the mantle of leadership by dissolving the unity government.”
He added that “the choice is his, be a part of the problem or part of the solution.”
US Ambassador Samantha Power told the Council that “as grave as the situation is now, and it is indeed grave, it can get worse. If the fighting persists, it will. Humanitarian conditions will continue to deteriorate, more civilians will suffer and more innocent lives will be lost. The only solution is an immediate ceasefire. This could not be more urgent or more important given the devastating consequences of the violence for civilian populations.”
The Secretary-General’s journey to the Middle East has so far included Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Israel, as well as Ramallah. He will continue on to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and other countries as needed.
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