At UN Security Council, UAE calls for immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza

At UN Security Council, UAE calls for immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza

Abu Dhabi: The UAE has called for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza, warning that the drums of war are beating.

Addressing the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN, on Monday reiterated that a ceasefire is needed now, as is ensuring safe, sustained and humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, and that access to electricity, clean water and fuel is restored.

“If we lean on the General Assembly’s moral responsibility in other settings, we must also respect it in this one,” she said, noting that “this Council, ignoring the expressed will of the majority of the world, [is] maybe what breaks it.”

Ambassador Nusseibeh went on to note that while our eyes have been trained on Gaza, the occupied West Bank has not been spared from violence either.

“Israeli settlers are escalating their attacks against Palestinian civilians and forcing their displacement. These attacks must be prevented by the State of Israel,” she said, adding that across the region, there have been several credible warnings of a wider escalation.

“The drums of war are beating,” she said, urging Security Council members to take