FM: UN Security Council has to lift impunity from Israel
12-10-2024 02:44 PM
Ammon News - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi said that Israel will not stop its war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon unless Netanyahu and his radical extremist ministers are held accountable.
In a post on X, Safadi wrote: "They would not have been able to launch all these aggressions, including against UNFIL units, had it not been for the impunity with which the International community continues to provide them, and the weapons that many countries are still sending to them."
Safadi also stressed that a year after the war, the massacres and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and with thousands displaced, killed and injured in the West Bank and Lebanon, including journalists, humanitarian workers, Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL members, the Security Council has no argument for not fulfilling its duties.
It has to lift the impunity from Israel, and to ban all weapons sales to it, he added.
"Countries that truly want an end to the dangerous regional escalation and seek peace and security in the Middle East must immediately stop supplying Israel with the weapons it is using in its aggressions," the minister stated.
Safadi also said that "Chapter 7 must be enacted to force Israel to comply with international law and immediately end all its illegal wars. Otherwise, this radical Israeli government will further undermine the credibility of international law and institutions, and drag the region deeper into the abyss of an all out regional war, whose consequences will reverberate far beyond the borders of the region."