Merve Aydogan<\/p>\n
21 May 2026\u2022Update: 21 May 2026<\/p>\n
Palestine\u2019s deputy UN envoy told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza demonstrate \u201ccontempt\u201d for international law and expose what he described as a broader collapse of humanitarian protections for civilians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entirety of the edifice of international humanitarian law was built around a singular principle, protecting those who do not take part in hostilities and those who no longer take part in hostilities,\u201d Majed Bamya said during a Security Council session on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.<\/p>\n
Bamya said Palestinians were not merely casualties of war but deliberate targets, accusing Israel of systematically attacking civilians, humanitarian workers, journalists and medical personnel in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is attacking Palestinian life. It is attacking those who try to save it and preserve it, those trying to sustain it, those trying to protect it, and those trying to record it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He cited figures to illustrate the scale of destruction, saying that \u201cin the span of four months of that war, more children were killed than in the previous four years across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bamya also said more than half of humanitarian personnel killed globally over the past three years died in Palestine, while two-thirds of journalists killed in 2024 and 2025 also died there.<\/p>\n
He urged the Security Council to confront what he described as an unavoidable choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cEither we proclaim that Palestinian civilians are lesser civilians, lesser human beings not entitled to the same protection, or we proclaim that the rules do not apply to Israel, and accept that Palestine becomes the ground zero for the death of international law-based order,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s UN envoy Ibrahim Olabi also addressed the council, saying the protection of civilians \u201cis not a mere slogan,\u201d but \u201can open wound in the memory of Syrian men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Syrian people know all too well what it means for homes to turn into trouble, for hospitals to become targets, and for human beings to become victims without a safe haven,\u201d Olabi said.<\/p>\n
He added that Syria was now \u201cdetermined to transform this memory into commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merve Aydogan 21 May 2026\u2022Update: 21 May 2026 Palestine\u2019s deputy UN envoy told the UN Security Council on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-451965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}