States of the world should continue efforts and pressure on Israel so that the Palestinian people could attain their rights to self-determination and establish their independent state on their territories with East Jerusalem as its capital, said Abdul-Aziz Al-Omi, the Third Secretary of the permanent Kuwaiti mission at the UN, addressed to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly during discussions that tackled question of the Palestinian people permanent sovereignty on the occupied Palestinian territories.
Such international effort is also required to end Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories including the Syrian Golan, halt the continuous Israeli breaches of Lebanon’s sovereignty and withdraw from its territories, stated the Kuwaiti representative during the session, held late on Wednesday.
In his address, he noted that the 1981 Security Council Resolution 497 considered as null and void a decision by Israel to impose its judicial and administrative governing on the Golan. "Such injustice affects every day the livelihood of the Syrian citizens in the Syrian Golan," he added.
Israel’s continuous occupation of the Palestinian territories, inhuman, random and repressive aggression against the Palestinian people constitute flagrant violation of international laws, covenants and human rights, Al-Omi said.
Asserting that Israel has been acting as an "entity above the law," he indicated at its isolation of the Palestinian regions and surrounding villages and towns in these areas, alluding to Gaza and the West Bank.
Moreover, Israel has remained adamant on breaking human laws, demolishing houses of unarmed Palestinians, neglecting appeals by international organizations to stop such breaches, Al-Omi said. In the past months, Israel razed to the ground some 446 buildings and addressed up to 747 demolish notifications to occupants of houses in the occupied territories, he said.
The Israelis have noticeably focused on the Jordan valley and Jerusalem to destroy Palestinians’ residences and properties, with the aim of judaizing these areas, rich in natural resources.
On Tel Aviv’s recent decision to abstain from extending the period of halting settlement activities, Al-Omi affirmed such policies that are aimed at judaizing the Palestinian areas and towns are aggravating hardships of the Palestinian natives in blatant breach of the Hague rulings and the Geneva accords.
Elaborating further, the Kuwaiti diplomat indicated at the Israelis’ schemes of depriving many Palestinians of health drinking water and disrupting the natives’ efforts to dig more wells to secure the vital source for living.
Organic, industrial waste and sewage water from 500,000 Jewish settlers are being dumped at Palestinian areas, damaging the environment and polluting underground water reservoirs. In addition, the Israelis have been bulldozing or torching Palestinians’ orchards particularly olive trees. Last year, they destroyed 62,329 olive trees, damaged agricultural irrigation networks and crops.
As to Gaza, Al-Omi added, the strip has been under siege for five consecutive years, practically imposing collective punishment on the natives of the enclave. The blockade has resulted in diverse hardships for the Gazans, whose standards of living have dramatically deteriorated.
