(28 Apr 2025)
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The Hague, Netherlands – 28 April 2025
1. Various of Palestinian ambassador to UN, Riyad Mansour talking with reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to UN:
"It cuts our heart apart, when we see this massive number of our children and women being slaughtered in this genocidal war. So we come here in order to see, you know, a position or an advisory opinion by the ICJ to allow humanitarian assistance to reach our people at the scale that they need, led by UNRWA, which is the brilliant, most beautiful success story of multilateralism under the United Nations."
4. Mid of Mansour
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to UN:
"We will accept, and I declare that in advance of whatever the ICJ will decide on this issue, once, you know, they start deliberating as South Africa requested. But in the meantime stop killing the Palestinian people, stop starving the Palestinian people, allow them to continue to live. Allow them to clean the rubble and to have temporary housing so that we can rebuild our country, our Gaza, and to build our lives where our children can live in the places where they’re born. And we will be as patient as it can be to see what the ICJ will decide. It is the highest judicial court under the sun, and once they decide what it is, we accept it."
6. Various of Mansour
STORYLINE:
A Palestinian U.N. envoy on Monday called for an end to the war in Gaza and an Israeli blockade in the enclave.
It comes as hearings began at the International Court of Justice on Monday focussed on a request last year from the U.N. General Assembly, which asked the court to weigh in on Israel’s legal responsibilities after the country blocked the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory.
Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters that the Palestinians were seeking justice and want an advisory opinion “to allow humanitarian assistance to reach our people at the scale that they need, led by UNRWA, which is the brilliant, most beautiful success story of multilateralism under United Nations.”
"We will accept, and I declare that in advance of whatever the ICJ will decide on this issue, once, you know, they start deliberating as South Africa requested," Mansour said.
"But in the meantime stop killing the Palestinian people, stop starving the Palestinian people, allow them to continue to live. Allow them to clean the rubble and to have temporary housing so that we can rebuild our country, our Gaza, and to build our lives where our children can live in the places where they’re born," he added.
Hearings opened as the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is nearing collapse.
Israel has blocked the entry of food, fuel, medicine and other humanitarian supplies since March 2.
It renewed its bombardment on March 18, breaking a ceasefire, and seized large parts of the territory, saying it aims to push Hamas to release more hostages.
Despite the stepped-up Israeli pressure, ceasefire efforts remain deadlocked.
The World Food Program said last week its food stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians as many families are struggling to feed their children.
AP video shot by Ahmad Seir Nassiri
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