At The UN DK Emergency Session, The Palestinian Envoy Called Gaza A World Hell

Archives - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (left fourth) met with Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (left fifth) in New York, USA, Monday (21/1/2019). (Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

JAKARTA - The Palestinian Envoy for the United Nations (UN) said at the Security Council (DK) emergency hearing that Gaza is currently the world's hell. "Saving people from hell today to the United Nations means saving Palestinians in Gaza," Riyad Mansour said in a speech at a hearing requested by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) quoted from Anadolu, Tuesday, August 31. He said 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza suffered suffering that no one could feel. "They were surrounded and bombed," he said again. The envoy said half of Gaza's homes were currently damaged or destroyed after Israeli airstrikes, with more than 1.4 million people forced to flee. "Almost all of our citizens in Gaza are refugees," said Mansour. "People sleep in cars and on the streets and "still being killed wherever they go," he added. He said more than 8,000 Palestinians had been killed so far, including more than 3,000 people in the south of Gaza, where Israel, he said, had forcibly transferred hundreds of thousands of people. "This astonishing figure continues to increase due to the delay every minute of action to stop intensive attacks on our people," he said. The envoy called on member states to act now, saying Palestinians in Gaza " faces death every day and every night." "Save them. Look at them as humans," he added.