Venezuela: 'Inflammatory rhetoric' escalates violence against Gazans
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Venezuela's UN Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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A Palestinian man reacts outside a burning collapsed building following Israeli strikes in Gaza on October 11, 2023. (AFP)
Joaquin Alberto Perez Ayestaran, Venezuela's UN Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, demanded a quick ceasefire and the cessation of all assaults against people and civilian infrastructure, like hospitals, refugee camps, and food storage facilities.
Ayesteran also urged the cessation of "inflammatory rhetoric and dehumanizing language," which according to him does not help the efforts to de-escalate but rather furthers violence against thousands of innocent people.
The Ambassador also spoke on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations and called on the UN Security Council to pressure "Israel" into sticking to the UN charter, the Geneva Conventions, and all international law and regulations.
On his part, Sergio França Danese, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN, said Brazil, the Security Council's October President, welcomed the emergency session after the Security Council failed to adopt any of four draft resolutions on the issue, including one submitted by his delegation, which received 12 votes in favor.
He expressed that the support given by Council members indicates that the draft was a "balanced text" that was deeply rooted in humanitarian and international law and “fundamentally committed to the humanitarian imperative.”
UNGA set to vote on Jordan 'humanitarian truce' draft
The General Assembly was set to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution asking for a "humanitarian truce".
Jordan wants the assembly to vote at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT), citing the urgency of the situation, despite the fact that more than 100 nations were still scheduled to participate in a discussion that began Thursday morning.
The remainder of the 193-member assembly agreed to the timeline after the split Security Council failed to agree on four draft resolutions in two weeks.
"Israel" had already rejected Jordan's draft resolution in the name of 22 Arab countries, continuing its relentless aggression on Gaza.
The resolution calls for "an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities."
In a similar context, the representative of the Hamas delegation in Moscow, Abu Hamid, told Kommersant that the Palestinian Resistance does not intend to release captives until an agreement to a ceasefire is reached.
According to Abu Hamid, hundreds of citizens and dozens of militants from various Palestinian factions entered the territories occupied in 1948, and after the fall of the Israeli Gaza Division, they captured dozens of people, most of them civilians, and we need time to find them in the Gaza Strip and then release them, stressing that calm is required to ensure that.
Israeli bombing has killed 50 of the captives so far, he noted.
