UNITED NATIONS, Nov 21 (Bernama-NNN-MAP) – Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mohamed Loulichki, has told the world body that the international community cannot understand its silence over the tragic situation in Gaza and has called on the UN Security Council to send a message for an end to the violence there.
“This is urgent, time is very critical and the international community cannot understand that the Security Council is unable to comment on a situation that deteriorates every day,” he told reporters here Monday shortly after closed-door consultations of the Council’s permanent members on a draft statement presented by Morocco.
The draft declaration was presented last Thursday and has been the subject of intense discussion and bilateral consultations led by the Moroccan delegation with each Council member state.
There is an increasingly obvious awareness that “the more time passes, the more the possibility of realizing the vision of two states living side by side starts to fade and loses its momentum, due to the settlement policy pursued by Israel in total disrespect for the entire international community”.
Regardless of the “form and status” of the document that will come out of the Council, all that the public will remember is the fact that “the Security Council has sent a message to the parties to stop the killing and put an end to the Israeli military aggression”, he added.
“Gaza is suffering under the indiscriminate bombing of the Israeli army which is sparing no school, no home, no hospital and which indiscriminately targets civilians whose only sin is their will to stay rooted in the land of their ancestors,” the ambassador said.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip, a week ago.
Following these tragic events, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI ordered the immediate establishment of a Moroccan field hospital in Gaza.
