Global failure on Palestine will diminish faith in int’l laws: Amir

Published: 1 December 2024

Qatar pledges $100m to support humanitarian efforts

Agencies
Vienna

The persistent failure of the international community and the United Nations in halting bloodsheds and double standards and in enforcing international laws when it comes to the Palestinian people, as well as the UN General Assembly’s resolutions and the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s orders, will only lead to further bloodsheds, impunity and diminish the confidence in international laws and system, Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has said.

This was stated in a message from HH the Amir to the annual event organized by the United Nations Office in Vienna to mark the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”.

The message was delivered by Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Austria and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Vienna, H E Jassim Yacoub Al Hammadi.

The Amir stressed that just, comprehensive and enduring peace won’t be achieved without the enforcement of inter-national resolutions and Arab Peace Initiative on basis of the two-state solution principle and the establishment of the independent, Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

In this message, Amir said that solidarity with the Palestinian people this year earns a special significance, especially given the collective punishment and genocidal war those oppressed people are enduring, which spare no civilians, homes, infrastructure, schools, universities, places of worship, or hospitals, and affect thousands of children, women in refugee camps, patients, the wounded, ambulances, doctors, and humanitarian workers, who are all victims of this brutality.

HH the Amir further emphasized that the occupying forces have not refrained from obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people and have engaged in their forcible displacement, in an unequivocal contravention of international humanitarian law.

Amir highlighted the overwhelming humanitarian consequences of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in widespread destruction of its cities and villages, and has spilled over into the West Bank and to Lebanon, stressing that it is imperative to urgently put an end to the violence and reaching a ceasefire that would halt the blood-shed, the humanitarian catastrophe, and the suffering of the prisoners and detainees.

His Highness reiterated the State of Qatar’s unwavering commitment to exerting every single possible effort in mediation to facilitate the achievement of an agreement that would accomplish this objective.
Amir reiterated his utmost condemnation of the repeated assaults on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The State of Qatar is at the vanguard of countries that scramble to provide economic and humanitarian support for the brotherly Palestinian people, alongside the political and moral support, and has engaged in the humanitarian efforts to deliver urgent aid to the Gaza Strip and evacuated the wounded and their families, in addition to establishing field hospitals, said HH the Amir.

In addition, HH the Amir announced that the State of Qatar has increased its contribution this year to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and has pledged $100m to support humanitarian efforts for the Palestinian people.

HH the Amir expressed his deep appreciation for the United Nations system, led by its Secretary-General, affirming solidarity with the international organization in the face of the relentless campaign targeting it and the legitimacy it represents, condemning attempts to undermine UNRWA.

He expressed gratitude for the agency’s efforts and the significant sacrifices it has made.