I speak from a very clear standpoint international law and what international law obliges you to do is if you really need to be to have a a scheme and the genocide and the genocide is not a war in order to have a I mean look I I hear you speaking and I respect you a lot but something inside me shakes because you I mean you're talking of this as if were two armies confronting each other if it's a war if it's a conflict it's between a people who are trying to resist on the little that
remains of their land frankly and uh one of the most powerful armies here in the region and um again I insist on the settler Colonial framework and I insist on this on the ground that this is how we can read it from an international law point of view because it's the most basic infringement of the law of self-determination if you don't understand that this is a settler Colonial conflict then please don't call it a conflict so and the genocide now now this is it it is to happen now then within septe within the framework then
the general assembly has said so before September next year end of the occupation and then longterm end of a part tied this is what it is to be done and there are things that you can do first of all all member states and uh together with other reporters I think it was 30 of us but also the commission of inquiry we have issued recommendations on how to comply within International court of justice advisory opinion so review all um engagement that your enti that your states have with the state of Israel and again it's nothing against
the state of Israel per se is the state of Israel as a persistent violator of international law and then arms embargo and other forms of transfers including oil have to be suspended and again while I look at the west and I'm very critical of the part of the world I come from many many states from the global South still have ties with Israel and again we need to have clean hands on this at the moment that genocide is being committed so these relations have to be suspended review political economic diplomatic military and strategic relations with
Israel because let's be frank many states are looking at Israel as with also with with a bit of admiration in the in the way it manages to win over the the the I mean through its gain impunity go ahead with its impunity I mean the way Israel is genocided the Palestinian population is also setting a new model pro pro uh presenting a new script on how to to deal with people who are considered an encumbrance and can be Palestinian Lebanese but in another setting in another country can be political opponents this represent a risk for
all of us for all of you and um and and then uh you accountability I look at Arab countries as a source of Hope much more can be done to advance accountability join the proceedings initiated by South Africa please please and advance and also those of you who are party to the uh to the Rome statute please please initiate a contribute to the investigation that the is being done this is very powerful and symbolic on top of being technically needed um another another element that is very important the Palestinians who have been displaced from Gaza
are highly traumatized I've seen it with my own eyes those who have been welcome in Qatar in other other countries in Jordan those who are in Egypt they need protection protection needs I than all of I think all of you who have welcomed them but having them just parked there is not enough they need protection and as someone who has studied the status and treatment of Palestinians including in Arab countries I beg you I beg you please don't treat them as unwelcome guests they need to be protected now more than ever and this doesn't requir
joh I'm not talking only to Egypt Qatar and Jordan I'm talking to Arab countries this is a time to show True solidarity to the Palestinians at the time theyve being genocided Justice also means recognizing the value I'm so happy to see the BDS movement present here today I think it's the first time that the BDS is at the general is participating in activities of the general assembly and this is a sign of how times are changing and changing fast a number of countries have even criminalized the BDS the BDS that in other countries like in
South Africa has been strategic in advancing the end of aarth more needs to be done including in Arab countries to support the BDS and including in discussing with countries members of this assembly which criminalize the BDS um Indonesia asked uh how the assault on Andra uh and the last the name in the coffin was the outlawing the organization through an act of uh the Israeli Parliament how does it affect if if it can also be seen as part of the genocidal assault on the Palestinian I think it is in two respects and one is very
clear Ana does represent a lifeline for the Palestinians in uh in Gaza not only for what it does and provides which might be very little compared to the needs but what it can provide Andra has the capacity to assist the Palestinians in a way that no other agency can and so the fact of incapacitating Andra is going to have a a clear serious humanitarian impact on the on the already tragic humanitarian situation in Gaza but also while cultural genocide is not an element of the crime Juris Prudence is clear that attacking the identity the sense
of Life the sense of collective um Collective uh sorry Collective identity of of a people can contribute to uh identify genocidal intent and this is what I think it's behind the assult anra that didn't start on October 7 it has been the Decades of vilification and uh and threats against against the agency that now of course have escalated and with this I end thank you so much
