ShareCAIRO: Kuwait expressed hope for South American and Caribbean countries’ continued backing to international efforts in support of Palestine’s right to full UN membership. Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the Arab League Ambassador Talal Al-Mutairi made the statement to KUNA on Wednesday after partaking in the League’s representative-level meeting with ambassadors of South American and Caribbean countries to Egypt. Such a right would contribute to the Arab region’s stability, which has been witnessing instability for decades due to Zionist occupation policies despite Arab initiatives made for achieving peace for all, Al-Mutairi said.
He said Kuwait appreciates South America and the Caribbean states’ positions in backing humanitarian rights of Palestinian people who have been facing a crime of genocide for years. “We are very worried, as the Zionist occupation does not respect international law and international humanitarian law,” he said. Kuwait also commended Libya’s proposal on holding this meeting as the conferees have common values and principles, he noted.
At the end of the meeting, a joint statement was issued to stress the need to support the inalienable rights of Palestinian people, including self-determination, the return, and the establishment of a full sovereign Palestinian state on June 4 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with international law, the relevant UN General Assembly, and the Security Council resolutions.
Meanwhile, GCC Secretary General Jasem Al-Budaiwi has condemned and denunciated occupation forces’ bombing of a school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Al Nuseirat camp, which killed dozens of innocents, including six UNRWA employees, and injured many others. According to a GCC statement, the Secretary General said that the international community must take a strong position against the occupation forces to stop the ongoing systematic violations against the Palestinian people, which have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
He emphasized that the targeting of relief and UN staff by occupation forces is a new crime added to the many repeated war crimes committed by the occupation forces in Gaza, which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents. Al-Budaiwi also reaffirmed the statement made in the 161st ministerial meeting held on Monday, September 9, 2024, rejecting any justifications for describing the aggression on the Gaza Strip as self-defense. He called on the international community to take necessary actions, within international law, to respond to the illegal practices of the Zionist government and the policy of collective punishment it pursues against the besieged residents of Gaza and the entire Palestinian people.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced Thursday that the number of its employees killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation war has increased to 220 employees. This came after the occupation forces targeted a UN-run school on Wednesday housing displaced people at Nuseirat refugee camp, which resulted in the killing of 15 Palestinians, including six UNRWA employees, while 40 other displaced persons were injured.
In a statement, UNRWA reaffirmed that the occupation forces have continuously ignored humanitarian workers, buildings, and operations since the beginning of the war, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Occupation forces have been launching aggressions on the Gaza Strip for 343 days, resulting in the martyrdom of 41,084 and the injury of 95,029, according to Gaza health authorities. — KUNA
