The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on Monday on a resolution regarding the next phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan. The Palestinian NGO network has denounced the plan. On Sunday Hamas and other factions called it “another form of occupation.”
There is an emergency picket outside the U.S. mission to the U.N. on Monday at 4 p.m.
CRAIG MOKHIBER, [email protected], @CraigMokhiber
Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and activist and a former senior United Nations human rights official. His articles at Mondoweiss include “How the U.N. could act today to stop the genocide in Palestine.”
He posted over the weekend: “The U.S. is pushing for a vote on the U.N. Security Council by Monday on the U.S.-Israel colonial land grab in Gaza. The U.S. draft would ignore the findings of the International Court of Justice and U.N. human rights bodies, violate key provisions of international law, reward and normalize the perpetrators of the genocide, punish the victims, consolidate the unlawful occupation, and further deny Palestinian self-determination. China and Russia (which has introduced an alternative draft) are so far holding firm against the U.S. plot, and UNSC member Algeria is pushing for meaningful revisions. Sadly, several regional collaborators are supporting the U.S.-Israel draft. Among them are non-members Qatar, Egypt, and the UAE, as well as Indonesia, and UNSC member Pakistan. This must be blocked. And the rest of the world must prepare to act in the UNGA on the Colombia proposal under Uniting for Peace to protect Palestinian human rights and hold the Israeli regime accountable.”
Palestinian civil society and allies had planned a global day of solidarity with Colombia todayas it faces U.S. threats after backing action for Palestine:
ADRIENNE PINE, [email protected] Pine is with the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine and The Friends of The Hague Group.
UBAI ABOUDI, [in Ramallah] [email protected], @ubaiaboudi Aboudi is director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development and member of PNGO’s steering committee.
Drop Site News reports: “Monday’s UNSC vote on the American proposal for Gaza is expected to reach the nine votes required for passage, with Russia and China likely to abstain, Al Jazeera reports.”
See prior IPA news releases including “Can Uniting for Peace Help Save the International Legal Order?” and “U.S. and Israel Trying to Consolidate “Land Grab in Gaza” Using U.N.“