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“Injustice should not become the new normal situation!”
Bendjama, on the Security Council:
More than two million Palestinians in the Ghaza Strip suffer from a serious shortage of food and basic necessities, while medical reports and other reports published by civil defense and doctors without borders indicate an alarming increase in cases of malnutrition, especially in children. This situation is due to the actions of the Zionist entity, helped by Western countries, within the framework of its genocidal action against the Palestinian population. In this context, the permanent representative of Algeria with the United Nations, Amar Bendjama, working during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council devoted to “the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue”, described Tuesday from New York, the aids sent to Ghaza as “drop of water in the ocean of needs”, calling for the opening of all the passages and roads to guarantee access to access humanitarian. He stressed that “air drops are not a solution and one cannot feed a people from the sky, while the earth is closed under their feet”. Amar Bendjama said that “the occupation must open all passages, all roads and all areas of life”, stressing that it was not a request because humanitarian access “is a legal commitment by virtue of the Geneva Agreements, nor a favor. It is an intransigence that cannot constitute a card to negotiate the release of prisoners in return. ”
“Standard doubles do not have their place in our moral compass, which we ask for the Palestinian people, we do it with all peoples,” he said, affirming that “Algeria considers the right to food as a sacred right and not a privilege, being a right devoted by article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amar Bendjama recalled that Algeria had long warned of a disaster in Ghaza because of the siege and the Zionist aggression, and “brought the cries of a people who perish under famine while joining the calls launched by almost all the voices of the world, with the exception of a few”.
But, the Zionist occupation had “blatantly denied the existence of famine in Ghaza”, this same occupation which cut “food, water, electricity and drugs, recalling that United Nations experts had condemned, on July 29, the barbaric acts of its officials, who commit crimes with regard to the status of Rome, and a genocide with famine as a means”. He stressed that “Algeria does not remain its arms crossed in the face of the suffering of humanity”, affirming that “the call of humanity is not an option, but a sacred duty, and that every human being, whatever its color, its belief or its borders, deserves to be treated with humanity and dignity”.
He cited the report of the Committee of the Integrated Classification of the Food Security phases (IPS) on “The worst scenarios experienced by the Ghaza Strip, the Famine Famine Thresholds and the Malnutrition which strikes the whole population in the Ghaza Strip”, stressing that it was a reality long denied by the occupation however known by all, a reality lived and felt by the people of Ghaza and He suffered on a daily basis and now she broke out in broad daylight.
Amar Benjama presented photos of Palestinian children who died of hunger and the lack of food due to the blockade imposed on the Ghaza band, saying that the world is witnessing “is not a coincidence, but it is a systematic genocide (…) as workers had attested in the humanitarian field and the whole world and with that the decender dares.”
He added that “future generations will ask us for accounts: where were you when Ghaza was screaming famine, when the children perished in their quest for bread and when an entire people was destroyed in the name of security?”. He stressed that “history will retain those who often give lessons to the others under the guise of” self -defense “those who denied the crime and were accomplices, those who have silenced and were witnesses of shame”. At the end of his speech, Amar Benjama affirmed “injustice should not become the new normal situation”, calling with determination “to the immediate and unconditional ceasefire to save lives, hopes and dreams not yet dreamed of”.
Lakhdar A.