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DATELINE: 03 JUN 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
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03 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Riyad Mansour walking to the stakeout area
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“And you have a responsibility to, among other things, to find ways to go to Gaza. I invite each and every one of you to go to the Gaza Strip. There is a story to be told about the criminality of what is happening to our people in the Gaza Strip. You have an obligation, a duty, to add your efforts, not only to cover the news, but to be a player, to go in any possible way as independent journalist, to go to all corners of the Gaza Strip to tell the story of the crime that is undertaking against the Palestinian people.”
4. Med shot, Riyad Mansour at the stakeout area
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“Things started to move in the Security Council, reached the level of a draft resolution, adopted and approved by the E 10, the majority, the elected members in the Security Council, and they engaged other members of the Council.”
6. Med shot, Riyad Mansour at the stakeout area
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“But I can objectively say the great majority of humanity and nation states are outraged of what is really going on in Gaza, and they want to do something. So that's why we see some elevation and changes of positions from big, important countries in Europe and beyond, such as France, UK and Canada. Their statement ten days ago was very clear, very powerful, and very different than previous positions that they have articulated on this issue. That is significant, that is a beginning of turning the corner, and we hope to see more of that. And it is not Israel that will decide the future of the people in the Middle East, especially the Palestinian people. It is us, we, the people, will determine our own future with the support and the help of the great majority of nations.”
8. Med shot, Riyad Mansour leaving the stakeout area
“There is a story to be told about the criminality,” the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called on journalists to travel to the Gaza Strip to document what he described as crimes against the Palestinian people.
“You have an obligation, a duty, to add your efforts, not only to cover the news, but to be a player,” Mansour said today (03 Jun) outside the Security Council. “To go in any possible way as independent journalist, to go to all corners of the Gaza Strip to tell the story of the crime that is undertaking against the Palestinian people.”
Mansour’s remarks came amid mounting international pressure over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and a recent push within the UN Security Council for action. “Things started to move in the Security Council, reached the level of a draft resolution, adopted and approved by the E10,” he said, referring to the Council’s ten elected members. “They engaged other members of the Council.”
According to the Palestinian envoy there is shifting diplomatic positions among key Western nations. “I can objectively say the great majority of humanity and nation states are outraged of what is really going on in Gaza,” Mansour said. “That’s why we see some elevation and changes of positions from big, important countries in Europe and beyond, such as France, UK and Canada.”
Mansour concluded, “It is not Israel that will decide the future of the people in the Middle East, especially the Palestinian people. It is us, we, the people, will determine our own future with the support and the help of the great majority of nations.”
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