Algeria’s Bendjama Calls on Mediators to Take Decisive Measures to Preserve the Gaza Ceasefire
Algeria on Monday “strongly condemned” the Zionist entity’s repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, urging mediators to take “immediate and decisive” measures to preserve the ceasefire.
Algeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Amar Bendjama, noted that 40 days since the ceasefire came into effect, “Israel” has killed more than 300 Palestinians, including many children and women, in flagrant violation of the agreement. “Algeria strongly condemns these brutal and persistent attacks.”
At the monthly UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Ambassador Amar Bendjama reminded the Council members that “the occupied Palestinian territory is still the scene of bloodshed.”
He added that from Lebanon to Syria, via Gaza and the West Bank, “Israel is trampling on the agreements and disregarding the mediators and guarantors” of the peace plan.
Algeria’s representative in the UN deplored the “unpunished” breach of the ceasefire agreement by the Zionist entity, calling on “the mediators and guarantors of the peace plan to take immediate and decisive measures to preserve the ceasefire and to demand that the occupying power honour its commitments.”
Referring to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Bendjama stated that “Israel” continues to keep the people of Gaza in a state of absolute precariousness. He highlighted the approaching harsh winter, with thousands of Palestinians being homeless.
“They find themselves in dilapidated and overcrowded tents, their belongings soaked, their children shivering from the cold and sleeping on the floor.”
Ambassador Bendjama emphasized that “this campaign of repression is not limited to the besieged Gaza Strip,” and that “the situation is just as serious” in the West Bank.
He pointed to “an unprecedented escalation of terrorism on the part of the settlers, an extremist campaign of violence and intimidation backed and protected” by the occupation forces.
“These extremist settlers are setting fire to homes, mosques, olive groves, spreading terror among the local population and confiscating land,” he said, adding that “these crimes are part of an ethnic cleansing campaign aimed at nipping the project of a future Palestinian state.”
Bendjama stressed that “the immense suffering of the Palestinian people requires concrete action on the part of the Security Council.”
Concluding his remarks, the Algerian representative called on the Council to “rectify the historical injustice” done to the Palestinians.
This would only be possible “by ending the occupation and allowing the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital,” he said.
