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STORY: UN / ISRAEL WEST BANK
TRT: 04:08
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 FEBRUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
10 FEBRUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, ambassadors at the stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“We are gathered here today in order to express our outrage and condemnation for what Israeli cabinet decided yesterday with regard of what will amount into the annexation of the land of the Palestinian people, especially in the West Bank. We condemn that act-position, and we also mobilizing here at the United Nations all components of the UN, beginning with the Security Council, for the immediate reversal of this illegal position of the Israeli government.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, camera
10 FEBRUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“Having said that, and based on instructions from our leaders, we started the process yesterday of number one circulating to the Security Council, to the Secretary-General, and to the President of the General Assembly and our capacity as the Representative of the State of Palestine, a letter that deals with the details of our position and what we want.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
6. Close up, camera
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“I gave it in person to the President of the Security Council yesterday when I met with him at two o’clock, and they put him in the picture of what is going on and expecting the Security Council to shoulder its responsibility to defend international law, including human rights law and humanitarian law, and to act in such a way to force Israel to honor and respect Security Council resolutions and, relevant resolutions, including 2334 and the last Security Council resolution 2803. And to reverse this illegal step.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
8. Close up, camera
10 FEBRUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Olabi, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syrian Arab Republic:
“The Arab group condemns in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decision and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty, entrenching settlement activities and imposing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank in a manner that accelerates attempts at its illegal annexation and the displacement of the Palestinian people. It reaffirms that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory. The group warns against the continuation of Israel's expansionist policies and illegal measures in the occupied West Bank, which contributes to fueling violence and conflict in the region.”
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, camera
10 FEBRUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmet Yıldız, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Türkiye:
“OIC Group condemns in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decisions and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty, entrenching settlement activity and enforcing any legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank. We stress that expansionist Israeli policies and illegal measures pursued by the Israeli government in the occupied West Bank only started to feel violence and conflict in the region. They undermine the two-state solution, the ongoing peace efforts, and represent an assault on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to realize their independent and sovereign state on the 1967 lines, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital.”
12. Wide shot, ambassadors leaving stakeout area
Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations delivered a joint statement on behalf of Arab states in order to express "outrage and condemnation" in regards of a recent Israeli cabinet decision, warning the move would amount to “the annexation of the land of the Palestinian people, especially in the West Bank.”
Speaking to reporters in New York today (10 Feb), Mansour said Israel’s decision represented an illegal step that must be immediately reversed. He said Palestinian officials were mobilizing “all components of the UN, beginning with the Security Council,” to respond.
Mansour said that, following instructions from Palestinian leaders, his office began circulating a letter to the Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the President of the General Assembly outlining “the details of our position and what we want.”
He said he delivered the letter in person to the President of the Security Council and called on the body to “shoulder its responsibility to defend international law, including human rights law and humanitarian law,” and to act to force Israel to respect Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 2334 and 2803, and to reverse what he described as an illegal step.
Speaking on behalf of the Arab Group, Syria’s UN ambassador Ibrahim Olabi said the group condemned “in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decision and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty” in the occupied West Bank.
Olabi said the measures sought to entrench settlement activity and impose a new legal and administrative reality that accelerates attempts at illegal annexation and the displacement of Palestinians. He said the group reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territory and warned that continued expansionist policies contribute to fueling violence and conflict in the region.
Türkiye’s UN ambassador Ahmet Yıldız, speaking for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, also condemned Israel’s actions, saying the OIC Group rejected measures aimed at imposing unlawful sovereignty and enforcing a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank.
