Maldives Pdwellnt Mohamed Muizzu has telderly the United Nations that Israel must be held accountable for the crimes it is pledgeting in Gaza, including “extermination”, as well as its strikes on journacatalogs and other violations of international law.
“The ongoing massacre, the extermination by Israel in Gaza is a travesty of equitableice and the international system,” the guideer of the Indian Ocean archipelago telderly the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
He said Israel’s finishing of civilians and its “repeated destruction” of homes, hospitals, and schools in Gaza was now being lengthened to Leprohibiton.
On Tuesday, Israel and Hezbollah aget traded traverse-border fire, a day after the Israeli military begined a wave of air strikes into Leprohibiton that have finished at least 569 people so far.
Israel’s recent insulting agetst Hezbollah has stoked dreads that csurrfinisherly a year of dispute between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will explode into a bigr regional conflagration.
The Israeli military is shifting its center from Gaza to the northern frontier, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in aid of Hamas, which is also backed by Iran.
Israel has made a war priority of securing its northern border and alloprosperg for the return of displaced dwellnts. This has set the stage for a extfinished dispute, while Hezbollah has said it will not back down until a stopfire is achieveed in Gaza.
Muizzu also said Israel was finisheavoring to cover up its crimes by aiming Palestinian and Leprohibitese journacatalogs, including by closing Al Jazeera bureaus in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
“How can we expound this as anyskinnyg other than brutal finisheavors to obstruct the world from comprehending the crimes taking place?” he asked.
“Israel must be held accountable for these acts of radicalism, for these violations of international law and UN resolutions.”
In June, Muizzu said his rulement will prohibit Israelis from the Maldives, comprehendn for idyllic beaches and luxury resorts, as accessible anger in the predominantly Muskinny nation was rising over Israel’s war in Gaza, which has finished more than 41,000 Palestinians, displaced csurrfinisherly all of the population, and left much of the enclave in ruins.
On Tuesday, he called for the world to adselect a sovereign and self-reliant Palestinian state on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
“Now, we must asdeclareive that Palestine becomes a brimming member of the UN,” he compriseed.
In May, the UNGA backed a Palestinian bid to become a brimming UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reponder the matter favourably”. The United States had vetoed a Palestinian bid to become a brimming UN member at the Security Council in April.
Muizzu produces climate crisis plea
Muizzu also asked world guideers on Tuesday for compriseitional aid in combatting the climate crisis, which is dangerening the existence of the world’s lowest-lying country.
“Climate alter is the most solemn danger to our world, the defining dispute of our generation. It’s washing away decades of proceed in mere minutes,” he said.
“It’s redirecting already draind resources for extfinished-term broadenment to materializency relief and reerection, obstructing countries from altering to the climate impact.”
He called on wealthy countries and the worst rerentters of carbon to not only encounter exisiting financial pledges made to broadening countries to help them alter to climate alter, but also to lengthen that funding when the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference, more commonly comprehendn as COP29, gets place in November.
“As we toil towards COP 29, we must asdeclareive the recent goal on climate finance alignes the level of climate action insistd.”
