The western powers on the UN security council face a choice of either demanding Israel lift its stranglehold on humanitarian aid into Gaza or being complicit in Israeli war crimes and collective punishment, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries said on a visit to London on Wednesday.
The group, led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Nigeria and Palestine, were in London for talks with the foreign secretary, David Cameron, before seeing the French president, Emmanuel Macron, later on Wednesday.
He said if the west rejected the appeals of 2 billion people in the Middle East it would send a significant message, adding the UN had a choice in either containing Israel or being complicit in its war crimes.
The ministers are also conveying a broader political message to western capitals that unless they do more to restrain Israel a new generation of radicals will be born.
Are they going to be complicit in the starvation and deprivation of the people of Gaza or are they willing to enforce the basic principle that civilians must not be affected by a military conflict?
“Is the security council going to live up to its absolute minimum of responsibilities to ensure the innocent citizens of Gaza get the food, the water, the medicine and the supplies that they need or are they willing to be part of collective punishment?”
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The western powers on the UN security council face a choice of either demanding Israel lift its stranglehold on humanitarian aid into Gaza or being complicit in Israeli war crimes and collective punishment, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries said on a visit to London on Wednesday.
The group, led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Nigeria and Palestine, were in London for talks with the foreign secretary, David Cameron, before seeing the French president, Emmanuel Macron, later on Wednesday.
He said if the west rejected the appeals of 2 billion people in the Middle East it would send a significant message, adding the UN had a choice in either containing Israel or being complicit in its war crimes.
The ministers are also conveying a broader political message to western capitals that unless they do more to restrain Israel a new generation of radicals will be born.
Are they going to be complicit in the starvation and deprivation of the people of Gaza or are they willing to enforce the basic principle that civilians must not be affected by a military conflict?
“Is the security council going to live up to its absolute minimum of responsibilities to ensure the innocent citizens of Gaza get the food, the water, the medicine and the supplies that they need or are they willing to be part of collective punishment?”
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