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DATELINE: 30 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
30 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari addressing Council
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia, Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“The level of suffering and brutality in Gaza is unbearable. The continued collective punishment of the Palestinian people is unjustifiable. As prepared for delivery. We remain deeply concerned by Israeli military operations in Gaza that render large areas of Gaza uninhabitable. We reject the forced displacement of the Palestinian population from any part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which would constitute a breach of international law obligations. We mourn the United Nations personnel killed in Gaza and strongly condemns the killing of all health and humanitarian personnel and journalists.”
5. Wide shot, Khiari addressing Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia, Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“We strongly condemn the loss of lives and injuries of Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza and we call for an immediate and independent investigation into these events and for perpetrators to be held accountable. The United Nations will not participate in any aid delivery modality that does not comply with the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence, and neutrality.”
7. Wide shot, Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya addressing Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations, State of Palestine:
“We reject the idea that there is a right to slaughter Palestinians. That was our position from day one. This is day 632 and the slaughter is ongoing. There is nothing that can justify a genocide.”
9. Wide shot, Bamya addressing Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations, State of Palestine:
“For those who contest our right to an independent state in our land, what are they proposing? A one-state solution between the river and the sea, with equal rights for all, with everyone enjoying the right to vote and able to exercise their political and human rights? I doubt that's the intention, given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, what are they proposing? There are only three options left. Genocide, ethnic cleansing or apartheid, or the combination of all three.”
11. Wide shot, Bamya addressing Council
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations, State of Palestine:
“In a two-state solution. There are no negotiations, no debate, no conditions over the existence of either state. Neither side has a veto right over the existence of the other. That is the premise of that solution. Palestine recognized Israel over 30 years ago and still awaits Israel's recognition of Palestine.”
13. Wide shot, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon addressing Council
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“We don't want to destroy the Palestinian people. We are not fighting the Palestinian people. We are fighting Hamas. The truth organization who brought you to where you are today. So, if you claim that you represent the Palestinian people, be responsible, be brave and agree with me today that the future of Gaza will not include Hamas.”
15. Wide shot, Council
16. Wide shot, Danon walks up to stakeout podium
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“The UN is putting politics over humanitarian work. Many in the UN are actively spreading disinformation, promoted by Hamas controlled sources, defaming the GHF's work and providing cover for further attacks. This is a campaign, an organized, orchestrated campaign.”
18. Wide shot, Danon at the podium
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“I urge the Secretary-General and all UN officials; if you care about the people of Gaza, stop with this campaign of defamation and obstruction and help them help the people of Gaza.”
20. Pan right, Danon walks away
Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari today (30 Jun) told the Security Council that “the level of suffering and brutality in Gaza is unbearable,” and “the continued collective punishment of the Palestinian people is unjustifiable.”
Khiari expressed deep concern at “Israeli military operations in Gaza that render large areas of Gaza uninhabitable,” and rejected “the forced displacement of the Palestinian population from any part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which would constitute a breach of international law obligations.”
He mourned the United Nations personnel killed in Gaza and “strongly” condemned “the killing of all health and humanitarian personnel and journalists.”
Khiari also condemned “the loss of lives and injuries of Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza” and called for “an immediate and independent investigation into these events and for perpetrators to be held accountable.”
He stressed that the United Nations “will not participate in any aid delivery modality that does not comply with the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence, and neutrality.”
Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, in his address to the Council, rejected “the idea that there is a right to slaughter Palestinians,” adding that after 632 days, “the slaughter is ongoing.”
Bamya said, “there is nothing that can justify a genocide.”
The Palestinian Ambassador said, “for those who contest our right to an independent state in our land, what are they proposing? A one-state solution between the river and the sea, with equal rights for all, with everyone enjoying the right to vote and able to exercise their political and human rights? I doubt that's the intention, given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, what are they proposing? There are only three options left. Genocide, ethnic cleansing or apartheid, or the combination of all three.’
In a two-state solution,” he said, there are no negotiations, no debate, no conditions over the existence of either state. Neither side has a veto right over the existence of the other.”
Bamya told the Council that “Palestine recognized Israel over 30 years ago and still awaits Israel's recognition of Palestine.”
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, for his part said, “we don't want to destroy the Palestinian people. We are not fighting the Palestinian people. We are fighting Hamas. The truth organization who brought you to where you are today. So, if you claim that you represent the Palestinian people, be responsible, be brave and agree with me today that the future of Gaza will not include Hamas.”
Speaking to reporters before the meeting, Danon said, “the UN is putting politics over humanitarian work,” and added that “many in the UN are actively spreading disinformation, promoted by Hamas controlled sources,” defaming the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) work “and providing cover for further attacks.”
He said this was “a campaign, an organized, orchestrated campaign.”
Danon urged Secretary-General António Guterres and UN officials to “stop with this campaign of defamation and obstruction and help them help the people of Gaza.”
The Secretary-General, in a statement today condemned the continued loss of civilian life resulting from Israeli airstrikes and any other attacks and called on all parties to comply fully with international law at all times.
Yesterday, the Israeli military issued another displacement order in areas of Jabalya and Gaza City, instructing people to go to Al Mawasi. This follows another displacement order in central Gaza over the weekend.
About 150,000 human beings were in the areas slated for displacement from yesterday’s order alone, including families staying in dozens of displacement sites.
The World Food Programme reports that one in five people in Gaza faces catastrophic levels of hunger, and more than 90,000 women and children urgently require treatment for malnutrition.
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