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STORY: UN / PALESTINIAN PEOPLE RIGHTS
TRT: 03:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
31 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Cheikh Niang, Representative, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) / Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Senegal:
“We have witnessed relentless Israeli military strikes by air, land and sea, against defenseless Palestinian population, men, women, children and elderly, all attacked in a destruction and reliable assault today, right into their security.”
4. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cheikh Niang, Representative, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) / Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Senegal:
“To date, over 43,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 100,000 injured, and many remain buried under the rubble in Gaza, with entire population enduring extreme suffering.”
6. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Cheikh Niang, Representative, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) / Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Senegal:
“Allowing a continuation of the Gaza war, continuation of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, a continuation of the telling of innocent Palestinian lives, a continuation of an apparent impunity in the face of documented violations of fundamental norms and laws will make the restoration of peace increasingly difficult to achieve.”
8. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Feda M. Abdelhady, Deputy Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Absence of accountability has permitted Israel's unbridled impunity its politicians, military and settler militias descending to unimaginable depths of cruelty and depravity, inflicting unfathomable terror, trauma and devastation on the Palestinian people.”
10. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Feda M. Abdelhady, Deputy Permanent Observer, Palestine:
“Although the days have never been darker, the prospects for Justice and Accountability have never been greater. The responsibilities of the international community are no longer up for debate. They are explicit and urgent. We must stop this genocide, hold perpetrators of war crimes accountable and end this illegal, immoral and inhumane occupation, which stands in defiance of every legal and moral principle.”
12. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Because it's not about the collection of war crimes and crimes against humanities that the Palestinians are experiencing. They have experienced through their entire life as a people, war crimes against humanity. But nowadays, the situation is different, and it's very important that we understand what is genocide and why this is to be recognized as a genocide.
14. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health:
“The distraction of health systems created by this genocide is incompatible with the realization of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.”
16. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Sidoti, Commissioner, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel:
“We have not stopped one child being killed. We have not stopped one woman being killed. We have not stopped the war. And you need to say the same things about the work of the General Assembly and the Security Council.”
18. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
Cheikh Niang, Representative of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) said, “To date, over 43,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 100,000 injured, and many remain buried under the rubble in Gaza, with entire population enduring extreme suffering.”
CEIRPP convened today (31 Oct) in New York, the briefing “International legal responsibilities for preventing genocide, holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable, and for ending the unlawful occupation of Palestine.”
Niang said, “We have witnessed relentless Israeli military strikes by air, land and sea, against defenseless Palestinian population, men, women, children and elderly, all attacked in a destruction and reliable assault today, right into their security.”
He also said, “Allowing a continuation of the Gaza war, continuation of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, a continuation of the telling of innocent Palestinian lives, a continuation of an apparent impunity in the face of documented violations of fundamental norms and laws will make the restoration of peace increasingly difficult to achieve.”
Feda M. Abdelhady, Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine said, “Absence of accountability has permitted Israel's unbridled impunity its politicians, military and settler militias descending to unimaginable depths of cruelty and depravity, inflicting unfathomable terror, trauma and devastation on the Palestinian people.”
She continued, “Although the days have never been darker, the prospects for Justice and Accountability have never been greater. The responsibilities of the international community are no longer up for debate. They are explicit and urgent. We must stop this genocide, hold perpetrators of war crimes accountable and end this illegal, immoral and inhumane occupation, which stands in defiance of every legal and moral principle.”
Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory said, “Because it's not about the collection of war crimes and crimes against humanities that the Palestinians are experiencing. They have experienced through their entire life as a people, war crimes against humanity. But nowadays, the situation is different, and it's very important that we understand what is genocide and why this is to be recognized as a genocide.
Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health said, “The distraction of health systems created by this genocide is incompatible with the realization of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.”
Chris Sidoti, Commissioner, Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, said,“We have not stopped one child being killed. We have not stopped one woman being killed. We have not stopped the war. And you need to say the same things about the work of the General Assembly and the Security Council.”
Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.
