8/14/2024–|Last update: 8/14/202406:42 AM (Makkah Time)
The UN Security Council held an emergency session at the request of Algeria to discuss the massacre committed by the occupation forces at the Al-Tabi'in School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza.
During the session, Lisa Dutton, Director of the Funding Division at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, warned of the situation in Gaza sliding towards a greater catastrophe, calling for diplomatic and economic pressure to prevent tragedies like the one witnessed at the Tabeen School.
For his part, the Algerian delegate, Amar Benjamaa, criticized the Security Council for its inability to stop the massacres committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, describing its meetings in this regard as absurd and ineffective.
In this context, the Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said, “Every time the world pushes for a ceasefire, Israel responds with a massacre.”
This came in his speech during the Security Council session held to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
“It is no coincidence that every time the world pushes for a ceasefire, Israel responds with a massacre like the one at the Tabeen School. It is sending an even uglier message than before: it will not stop,” he added.
In turn, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, considered that “Israel has the right to pursue Hamas elements and respond to threats,” but she urged Israel to “take measures to limit harm to civilians.”
Call for action
The majority of speakers at the session called on the Security Council to take action to implement its resolutions on Gaza, and the majority of member states condemned the Israeli attacks.
On Saturday morning, the Israeli army bombed the Al-Tabi'in School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, killing more than 100 Palestinians and wounding dozens, including children and women, according to the government media office in the Strip.
The Israeli army admitted to bombing the school, claiming that it targeted fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which the two movements strongly denied, while accusing Tel Aviv of trying to justify the massacre.
Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has received military, intelligence and diplomatic support from Western countries, led by the United States.
The war on Gaza resulted in more than 132,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children.