5 April: This morning the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a resolution calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel. The resolution passed: 28 in favour & 6 against, with 13 abstentions. Never forget the countries that vote against such #humanitarian action. United States of America Germany Argentina Bulgaria Malawi Paraguay. Let’s remember the IDF are now shooting people trying to get food aid drops and leaving their bodies to be eaten by hungry dogs.
5 April: the UN Human Rights Council debated a resolution calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel. Germany opposed it because “the resolution insinuates Israel engages in apartheid & it accuses Israel of collective punishment.. & applying starvation as a method of warfare”
5 April: Six months on, the Israeli military campaign has brought relentless death & destruction to Gaza. Lives shattered. Children dying for lack of food & water. This is incomprehensible & entirely avoidable. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
10 May: resolution strengthening Palestine in the UN & calling on the #UNSC to reconsider the matter of Palestine’s membership.
Ambassador Majed Bamya @majedbamya: The General Assembly expresses its unequivocal and overwhelming support for the membership of the State of Palestine to the United Nations!
10 May: State of Palestine@Palestine_UN: Thank you to the peoples of the world, nations, & majority of States who voted for Palestinian self-determination, for Palestinian existence & future. Thank you for standing for humanity, for the UN Charter, & for freedom & justice. Onwards, until 194th MemberVoting results
Abstensions, reactions, and hissy fits
10 May: Israel’s Ambassador to the UN condemns the United Nations voting on a resolution to accept Palestine as a member, says “this shameless body has chosen to reward modern day Nazis with rights and privileges.”
10 May: Assaf, MD@SohiubN : Take a look at the “NOPE” Act introduced by Mitt Romney. “No Official Palestine Entry Act of 2024” A law designed to expand the 1990s prohibition on U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state and requirement of the United States to cut funding to any U.N. organization that does recognize Palestine. The United States has to enshrine into law a ban on a Palestinian state, which is utterly comical.
cont. Just to clarify. There’s as 1990s law that prohibits U.S. funding to any U.N. organization that recognizes Palestine is a full member state. This law expands on that previous law to include provisions that prohibit expansion of privileges as a nonmember state which we saw pass today.
3 June: Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman BREAKING: For the first time in the history of the WHO General Assembly, Palestine’s seat moves from the back rows to its position among countries in alphabetical order. A warm applause for the delegation of Palestine by those present at the closing session of the 77th General Assembly of Health in Geneva. Finally, Palestine is being recognised ACROSS THE WORLD!
8 June: UN Blacklists IDF For Crimes Against Children; ‘Humiliated’ Israel Expresses ‘Disgust’September: South Africa Isn’t Backing Down! Gives Deafening Statement in Favor of Palestine at UNSC!
14 June: Carl Skau @CarlSkau Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Food Programme, @WFP: Just spent two days in #Gaza. From the south to the northernmost tip of the Strip, people are traumatised and exhausted. The level of destruction is shocking. And the challenges our staff are facing when doing their life-saving work are like nothing I have ever seen. 1 million displaced ppl in south #Gaza are trapped, without clean water or sanitation. It’s a public health and protection disaster. In the north, @WFP ‘s deliveries via Erez have improved access to basic food. This must be sustained, and people need more diverse nutritious food.
9 September: Antonio Guterres: The level of suffering we are witnessing in Gaza is unprecedented in my mandate as secretary-general of the United Nations. I’ve never seen such a level of death and destruction as we are seeing in Gaza in the last few months.
13 Oct 2024: @StefanTalmon Germany a notable absentee After Israel declared the UN Secretary-General persona non grata and banned him from entering the country, 104 UN Member States and the African Union signed a letter in support of the Secretary-General – but not Germany, which in its campaign booklet for Security Council membership 2027-2028 declares itself “a steadfast pillar of the United Nations”
14 Oct 2024: @UN An airstrike in Gaza hit a hospital courtyard on Monday, burning tents where people were sleeping. Strikes also hit an @UNRWA school where families were sheltering. The location was meant to be used as a polio vaccination site. A ceasefire is urgently needed to stop the devastation.
September: Spain swears in first official Palestinian ambassador
13 Oct 2024: #Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses Saudi Arabia’s condemnation and denunciation in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to seize the land on which the @UNRWA headquarters is located in occupied Jerusalem and turn it into a settlement outpost.
18 Oct 2024: France demands firing of Francesca Albanese from UN. 22 Oct 2024: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said that “in Gaza, the collective shame of the century continues unabated and unstopped, in defiance of every norm of international law”.
The Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world. Chris Sidoti, UN Human Rights expertThe Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Amery Browne denounces genocide.
US lawmakers are trying to prevent official UN investigator for genocide in Gaza @FranceskAlbs from speaking in the US, right before she presents her findings to the UN. They don’t want Americans to hear the evidence
30 Oct 2024: Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield@USAmbUN As UN Special Rapporteur Albanese visits New York, I want to reiterate the U.S. belief she is unfit for her role. The United Nations should not tolerate antisemitism from a UN-affiliated official hired to promote human rights.
!!! The US has prevented Francesca Albanese from testifying before Congress. Maureen Murphy@maureenclarem · Lemkin Institute: @FranceskAlbs will be remembered as a hero, @USAmbUN as a perpetrator and apologist for genocide. “As experts on the crime of genocide, we can say this with certainty.”
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing@adequatehousing These images are seared into our collective consciousness as a symbol of bestiality, brutality and eternal shame. Hundreds of Palestinian men stripped naked in the middle of rubble in Jabalya. When and how will this end? Where is humanity?
20 Nov 2024: security council for ceasefire which US vetoed12/12/2024: Following the 6th United States veto in the Security Council blocking a ceasefire in Gaza, today the overwhelming majority of the world responded by voting for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
13 Dec 2024: “Israel has enjoyed impunity for many many decades which has emboldened it to become increasingly violent and increasingly lawless” @profbensaul , UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism, spelling it out yesterday
16 Dec 2024: Christiane Amanpour@amanpour “Gaza is apocalyptic right now,” says @UNReliefChief@TFletcher “We are getting only a tiny fraction through of what is needed. We’re facing the specter of starvation again. Disease is rampant. Our trucks are getting looted… But we will keep trying against the odds.”
