{"id":48150,"date":"2022-04-26T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=48150"},"modified":"2022-04-26T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:22:48","slug":"trade-picks-up-in-hebron-during-ramadan-until-tensions-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=48150","title":{"rendered":"Trade picks up in Hebron during Ramadan until tensions resume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON: Arab nations criticized Israel during a heated meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday that focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n

Representatives of several Arab states spoke out against the actions of Israeli forces against Palestinians, especially violence over the weekend in East Jerusalem and at Al-Aqsa Mosque.<\/p>\n

Israel criticized the UNSC for ignoring the activities of Palestinian terror groups and the rising threat from Iran.<\/p>\n

Tor Wennesland, UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said 23 Palestinians \u2014 including three women and four children \u2014 were killed in clashes with Israeli forces, and 541 had been injured by police and settlers.<\/p>\n

Twelve Israelis \u2014 including two women \u2014 and three foreign nationals had been killed by Palestinians, and 82 had been injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Riyad Mansour, Palestine\u2019s permanent observer to the UN, said Israel had \u201cresorted to its favorite justification \u2014 security\u201d for the violence carried out by its forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the one-size-fits-all justification: Security to justify illegal occupation, security to justify forcible displacement, security to justify inhumane blockade, security to justify killing children on their way to school, security to justify bombing entire neighborhoods, security to justify attacking our people, our land and our holy sites,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey labeled our worshippers \u2018terrorists\u2019 \u2014 the distortions are endless, offensive and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilad Erden, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, said Israel found itself in the midst of a \u201cterror wave\u201d of attacks.<\/p>\n

He criticized the UNSC for failing to raise the issue of Iran, its activities in Lebanon and its nuclear program,\u00a0which he labeled \u201ca true threat to regional security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hezbollah \u201chas multiplied its arsenal in Lebanon tenfold,\u201d he said, adding that it \u201crepresents only one tentacle of terror belonging to an even more menacing threat: Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cHezbollah is one of six terror proxy armies that Iran funds and arms, and Iran, as the world\u2019s number-one state sponsor of terror, uses these armies to spread death and chaos across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erden said: \u201cAs we speak, advanced Iranian centrifuges continue to spin. The ayatollahs\u2019 regime is now mere weeks away from enriching enough uranium for a nuclear bomb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHow is it possible that the body tasked with global security does not dedicate the majority of this debate on the Middle East to the Iranian nuclear threat?\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cTry to imagine what the Middle East will look like when Iran\u2019s terror proxies can operate under a nuclear umbrella.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much bolder will the Houthis\u2019 attacks on international trade routes and civilian infrastructure get once they have nuclear backing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Other nations, however, criticized Israel for its actions against the Palestinians in recent days. Algeria reminded the UNSC that the session came just days before the 74th anniversary of\u00a0the dispossession of the Palestinian people when Israel was created in 1948, \u201ca people whose only fault was the rejection of an occupation of its land, and calling for the right to self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon and the UAE also criticized Israel, calling on it to de-escalate the situation.<\/p>\n

The UAE called the moment \u201ca critical juncture\u201d and condemned \u201cthe repeated incursions by Israeli forces into Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the assault carried out by settlers in the courtyards of Al-Haram Al-Sharif.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Mills Jr., deputy US ambassador to the UN, warned that the situation in Gaza had also become desperate and required international assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Gaza, the need for humanitarian relief, reconstruction and recovery remains acute,\u201d he said. \u201cWe encourage all member states to provide concrete assistance, including financial contributions \u2026 to help meet the needs of ordinary Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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