a future where two democratic states, israel and palestine look side-by-side this is not the future hamas wants to see. it is the future that we must all wor thank you very much, mr. president. >> mr. president, distinguished minister, we fully support the delegations of the un council of the gaza strip. we were extremely concerned of hear situations on the ground. on the occupied palestinian territory the west bank, river and gaza strip, according to incoming information the number of people killed in the enclave has exceeded 8,000 half women and children. more than 2,000 people under the rubble half of which are also children. more than 21 people -- the number of displaced persons in gaza has reached 1.6 million people. there are 640,000 palestinians in the west bank more than 100 people have been killed and 3,000 injured. these chilling numbers are growing by the hour. we express our gratitude to all humanitarian workers on the ground that work to exhaustion with catastrophic lack of basic including medical supplies and also with an extremely high risk to their own lives. the scale of losses from un agencies is shocking, 63 staff members have been killed. 22 injured an 22 -- we pay tribute to the un staff that continue to work in unimaginable conditions and to those who have paid with their lives. according to media reports during israeli shelling on the blue lines, the largest hospital in gaza is under threat of attack. the israeli air force launching strikes 50 meters demanding immediate evacuation. as a result of the bombing, 9 hospitals are entirely unusable and remaining ones are experiencing lack of medicine. the blockade of gaza strip has become total in enclave and mobile service has been switched off. it's been cut off from the rest of the world. nobody knows exactly what is exactly happening there. this sort of blockade not only is serving greater panic among civilian population it is directly undermining the work of medical and rescue services which means it is leading to more civilian casualties. for this reason it was not possible to agree on the 26th of october for passage of another humanitarian convey across the crossing point. we condemn actions particularly in the situation shutting off communications most powerful air strikes were launched on enclave since beginning of the escalation. the conditions of active hostility and humanitarian response is nominal through the crossing point. the only point from egypt from the 21st of october, only 94 trucks have made it through and according to incoming information israel is styming the deliveries as a result in the gaza strip there's acute lack of everything, water, fuel, food, medicines and people are frightened and have been driven to despair. on the 28th of october according to -- from the decision of political leadership ignoring the position clearly expressed by the international community in the un assembly resolution adopted the previous day began a ground operation in the gaza strip. after extremely intensive air strikes the israeli army began to enter the territory of the enclave from several directions in the south near refugee camp and in the north. colleagues the israeli authorities have different way of describing actions or preparing bridge head but that's not the point. the point is that despite and has begun practical implementation to clear the enclave. in responds, we have heard from the head of the israeli foreign ministry saying that israel reject outright despicable call for ceasefire, end quote. these comments do no go unnotice as well, representative from israel saying un lost legitimacy. stocking statement that have been circulated in the media. there's no symmetry in the israeli response and children of gaza have brought this upon themselves, end quote. this clearly shows that israel is ignoring the opinion of overwhelming majority of un members including western states. the appalling situation has been brought about because u.s. position the security council has essentially been paralyzed and still not been able to adopt a resolution with immediate demand for ceasefire. we have twice made attempts to do so but washington and western jerusalem have entirely other plans to wipe out a population of gaza or toes for them out of the gaza strip and force remaining palestinian population to assimilate into israel to resolve palestinian problem that way. in the context of unprecedented scale of the escalation of the palestinian-israeli conflict we have to note the current rise in tensions in the syrian-israeli border which is interference coupled with illegal military presence of the u.s. and u.s. forces upon the introductions of president joe biden launched strikes on two kamal area, eastern syria and washington it was taken to self-defense, american style. thousands of kilometers from u.s. territory. legitimate and no justified actions by washington are nothing other than gross violation of sovereignty and norms of international law. in the present circumstance illegitimate use of force have extremely dangerous consequences because it could provoke an unarmed escalation encompassing the entire region. colleagues, the time for half measures and lip appeals is past. no humanitarian pauses will help. humanitarian assistance cannot be provided in the height of hostilities on the ground. i hope that everyone here understands that. the number of victims among humanitarian workers are in the dozens. unable to operate due to lack of fuel. all important but in and of itself they are not going to stop the war. the priority of the global community now is to stop the bloodshed to minimize the harm to the civilian population and to move the situation into the political diplomatic sphere. there must be a consolidation of collective efforts and relaunching a negotiating process between israelis and palestinians with the aim of realizing the un endorsed a two-state solution upon the basis of that independent palestinian state should be created in the 1967 borders with east jerusalem as capital coexisting with israel. mr. president, i would ask to ask representative a question, can you explain why you oppose a ceasefire? does this mean that the usa as permanent member of the security council supports doctrine massive retaliation in gaza, where is your compassionate that you eloquently express on ukraine and that's even though the lives of civilians in ukraine are far level than gaza or you only think those in the european continent and palestinian moves don't spare emotions in washington and the same question to the other western delegations in the council who shamefully on stained on all of our draft resolutions calling for a ceasefire. colleagues, your double standards are more than evidence. the populations of your own countries are calling for an answer to that where there are mass demonstrations in support of palestine. in this situation, the russian federation is making efforts to deescalate on the ground and rapidly resolving the crisis. in all we have set clear signal to parties involved, emergency provision of assistance to all those who need it. president putin has been extremely clear, we will not accept and condemn any terrorist act. we express condolences who have lost loved lives in israel and palestine and other countries. but won demming terrorism and taking of hostages and demanding and cannot agree that the threat of terrorism can be responded while violating humanitarian law including use of force on objects of civilian infrastructure where civilians are known to be located. and alongside addressing the urgent tasks to end the current escalation of violence we must immediately begin to strategy. in the past this was done by the international mediators and the usa has done everything to undermine. this is supported by the positive trends that before the previous escalation -- current escalation in gaza were evident in the middle east. the reintegration of syria and the improvement in interstate relations between syria and turkey. all of this proves and turkey, all of this proves that the countries in the region when they take the situation in half and are not subjected to pressure from outside the region they can achieve a great deal to stabilize. given the growing escalation and unthinkably vast consequences for the civilian populations which is cut off from outside supplies, we believe it is important to hold regular open briefings such as the one today. humanitarian situation in the gaza strip without any discrimination must remain within the focus of our constant attention as it takes place in the context of other crisis. mr. president, some colleagues trying to shift the focus from the tragic events surrounding the palestinian israeli conflict touched upon the 29th of october incident in russia. assessing the actions by committee in russia. it's clear that any illegal actions are unacceptable and unsanctioned in the airport as outbreak antisemitic feeling especially in the north is unacceptable. this region has been example of many different people in russian society unlike western societies the principles of tolerance and religious and racial grounds are well rooted. in our society coexistence of representative of all the main faiths, as confirmed by data of security services the evidents are clearly seen, clearly show signs of external interference including information interference and social networks and the traces of that, you will be not
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