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STORY: UN / PALESTINE
TRT: 02:53
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY/ RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
18 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“For over six months, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been gripped by a surge in violence, triggered by individual terrorist attacks by Palestinians. Some 30 Israelis and two hundred Palestinians have been killed, with most of the Palestinians killed while reportedly carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks. I condemn all such attacks unreservedly. There can never be any justification for stabbings, vehicle attacks, shootings, incitements to violence, or the glorification of killers.”
4. Med shot, Representatives of the United States and Uruguay
5. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“We’re saying it all the time. You should say it in Arabic not in English. You should teach in your schools. ”
6. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“(inaudible) Israelis count? Palestinian lives do not count? We do teach.”
7. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“You should stop the hatred. You should stop naming streets after terrorists. Look at the squares in Ramallah. Look at the streets in Jenin. You’re naming streets after terrorists.”
8. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“(inaudible) to fight against incitement. Are you willing to come and attend these meetings in the presence of the Americans?”
9. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“We condemn all terrorism in Hebrew, in English, in Arabic.”
10. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“We condemn the killing of all innocent civilians including Palestinian civilians. Do you do the same?”
11. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“You’re paying them. You’re paying the families of the terrorists.”
12. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Do you do the same?”
13. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“You’re glorifying terrorism. Shame on you for doing that.”
14. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“We don’t. We don’t”
15. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“Shame on you for glorifying terrorism.”
16. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Shame on you for killing thousands of Palestinian children.”
17. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“Shame on you for not saying we condemn all acts of terror period. That’s was we are saying. We condemn all acts of terror. That’s what I want you to say.”
18. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“You cannot say that you condemn (the killing of) civilians.”
19. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“You are being translated into 5 languages. You can say it right now: ‘We condemn all acts of terror’.”
20. UPSOUND (Chinese) Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative, China:
“I ask the Representative of Israel to continue his statement.”
21. Med shot, Secretary-General, and President of the Council
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“It is time for the Palestinian leadership to end their silence and to start acting as leaders.”
23. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“End the Occupation.”
24. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“You cannot condemn terrorism. You cannot say it here. ‘I condemn all acts of terror.’ You cannot say it here.”
25. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“End the occupation. Leave us alone!”
26. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“People are looking at you. Palestinian children are looking at you right now and you cannot say: ‘I condemn all acts of terrorism.' One sentence you cannot say. One Sentence you cannot say. Shame on you for that. Shame on you for not being able to say it.”
27. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Shame on you! You are an occupier. You are oppressing us. You are sitting on our lives. Leave us alone. Let my people be free. Let my people be free.”
28. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“Shame on you. Shame on you.”
29. UPSOUND (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Shame on you. You are (an) occupier. You are a colonizer. Leave us alone!”
30. UPSOUND (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative, Israel:
“We heard excuses, but we haven’t heard any condemnation.”
31. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber
The Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) engaged in a heated exchange today (18 APR) at a Security Council meeting on the tense situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Each ambassador accused the other of failing to condemn the violence committee against the other’s community in the region.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said for over six months “Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been gripped by a surge in violence, triggered by individual terrorist attacks by Palestinians.” He said “some 30 Israelis and two hundred Palestinians have been killed, with most of the Palestinians killed while reportedly carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks.”
Ban said “There can never be any justification for stabbings, vehicle attacks, shootings, incitements to violence, or the glorification of killers.”
The Secretary-General however said Israel continues to demolish Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank at an alarming rate. He said “The total number of demolitions in 2015 was exceeded in early April this year.”
Israeli ambassador Danny Danon said “the Palestinian culture of hate and constant brainwashing is responsible for the loss of too many Israelis.” He turned to Palestinian ambassador, Riyad Mansour, and asked “in the name of the Israeli victims” if he would condemn “Palestinians who commit terror attacks against Israelis.”
This sparked a heated exchange. Mansour said, “we condemn the killing of all innocent civilians including Palestinian civilians. Do you do the same?”
Danon said The Palestinian Authority (PA) glorifies terrorists naming “squares after suicide bombers” and hanging “posters of them on school walls.”
He said instead of condemning the recent attacks, Palestinian leader has “encourage them” He claimed that “they reward terrorists and their families with monthly salaries.
The Israeli Ambassador said “on the day the Palestinian leadership rejects terror and violence, on the day they embrace coexistence and cooperation” there will be peace.
Mansour said since the current unrest began in October 2015, more than 200 Palestinian men, women and children have been killed, with the bodies of many of those killed withheld by Israel “even denying them dignity in death.” He said “the occupying forces have also continued to use excessive force, injuring more than 16,000 people, including thousands of children and women, in the past six months.”
Mansour said Palestinian children are traumatized by Israel’s “shoot to kill policy, with children as young as 13 years of age shot and killed without consequence.” He said, “The stories of Palestinian children and youth killed in broad daylight, including those extra-judicially murdered by the occupying forces have become too numerous to recount.”
The Palestinian ambassador said “The reality is that a defenseless civilian population is being left to the merciless brutality of this nearly-half century military occupation, armed to the teeth with the most lethal and sophisticated military weaponry.” He said despite Palestinian appeals to the Security Council “not even a discussion about protection (of the Palestinian) has taken place” and asked “How shameful of an act is this on the shoulders of members of the Security Council?”
Mansour said, “When children feel they cannot even dream, we must acknowledge the depths of despair and hopelessness and human devastation that this occupation and conflict have wrought.”
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