Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki today denounced to the UN Security Council the demolition of a Palestinian family home in East Jerusalem in the early hours of this morning, with Israel reiterating that it was a “municipal affair”.
“Israel continues to wage a ruthless war on the Palestinian people,” the Palestinian minister said at a monthly Security Council meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was held at the ministerial level after the Norwegian orthodox .
“The Israelis have ‘uprooted’ a family, including their children, by throwing them out in the bitter cold, arresting several members of ‘it’ before demolishing their home, leaving behind only despair and disaster,” said Riyad al-Malki.
“Israel’s impunity must end,” he told the Security Council. “Will you accept this 21st century apartheid?”
It was a “municipal affair,” said Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. “We are talking about a family that stole public land for private use. This land is intended for construction
According to Norwegian Foreign Minister Aniken Heutfeld, “Jewish settlements are a major obstacle to peace.”
“The demolition and expansion of the settlement activity continued last night,” another Palestinian family was evicted in East Jerusalem, Whitfeld told reporters before the meeting began. “All settlement activities, demolition and evictions must stop,” he demanded.
This position was reiterated at the meeting by the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, Lana Nusaybeh, who has the rank of Minister and whose family is originally from Palestine.
The house of the Palestinian family that was demolished in the Sheikh Jara district had become in recent weeks a symbol of the fight against Israeli settlement activity in East Jerusalem.
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