{"id":15884,"date":"2018-09-21T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15884"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:25:50","slug":"arab-group-at-un-condemn-israels-decision-to-destroy-palestinian-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15884","title":{"rendered":"Arab group at UN condemn Israel\u2019s decision to destroy Palestinian village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDUBAI: The Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, Khalifa Al-Harthy, has rejected and condemned Israel\u2019s decision to demolish the Palestinian village in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI would like to say that we in the Arab Group reject and condemn the Israeli plans to demolish Palestinian homes in Khan Al-Ahmar,\u201d Al-Harthy said.<\/p>\n

\nAl-Harthy, who also holds the rotating presidency of the Arab group, also thanked the eight European Union nations that opposed Israel\u2019s planned demolition <\/a>of the village and urged its government to reconsider the decision.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe would like to express our gratitude for the statement read out by the Dutch ambassador on behalf of the European Community and the support from the international community in these difficult days,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\nAmbassador Riyad Mansour also expressed the Palestinian government and Palestinians\u2019 appreciation to the European community.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cTheir principled stance on their position against the Israeli government\u2019s decision to demolish or attempt to demolish the homes of the Bedouin community in Khan Al-Ahmar is very good and commendable,\u201d Ambassador Mansour, who is Palestine\u2019s envoy to the UN, said.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe hope that the international community will stand with them in their position and that of the Secretary-General to stop Israel, the occupying power, from demolishing Khan Al-Ahmar,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\nKuwait\u2019s ambassador to the UN Mansour Al-Otaibi has reiterated that Israel must comply with Security Council Resolution 2334 and stressed that the Kuwaiti delegation was doing its utmost to ensure that the Security Council, of which Al-Otaibi is a member, would continue to pressure Israel to comply with all its resolutions.<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolai Mladenov condemned the continued demolition and confiscation of Palestinian-owned buildings by Israeli occupation authorities throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

\nMladenov told the UN Security Council on Thursday that 117 buildings have been destroyed and confiscated in East Jerusalem and Area C, displacing 145 Palestinians including 82 children, and affected the livelihoods of 950 people. Israel\u2019s Supreme Court has rejected several petitions from the residents to prevent demolition.<\/p>\n

\nMladenov stressed that all settlement activities violate international laws and constitute a major obstacle to peace.<\/p>\n

\nThe international official also expressed concern over the continued deterioration of the humanitarian, security and political situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\nThe UN has exhausted its funding for emergency fuel, threatening the closure of vital health, water and sanitation facilities, while the levels of essential medicines have been critically reduced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI: The Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, Khalifa Al-Harthy, has rejected and condemned Israel\u2019s decision to demolish the Palestinian village in East Jerusalem. \u201cI would like to say that we in the Arab Group reject and condemn the Israeli plans to demolish Palestinian homes in Khan Al-Ahmar,\u201d Al-Harthy said. Al-Harthy, who also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}