ABDULLAH ALSAIDI (YEMEN):  Thank you Mr. President.  Mr. President, the agenda item on the Palestinian question acquires a special significance as it deals with an issue of grave and deep humanitarian and security implications.  
Talking about an issue like the problem of the Palestinian people is indeed a painful exercise leading through a heap of injustices, repressions, sufferings that have exceeded all limits.  The report contained in document A/60/380 of the Committee on the Exercise of Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the report on the investigation of the Israeli practices relative to human rights in the occupied territories proves that the situation is, indeed, painful and the suffering measureless.
The continuation of the construction of the separation wall despite the legal opinion rendered by the International Court of Justice has led to the annexation of yet more Palestinian territories and left the remaining [inaudible] separate isolated plots where the freedom of movement is blocked.  Families cannot visit each other.
The health and education and institutions cannot be reached, which has increased the suffering of children, women and elderly, as they are deprived of medical health and educational facilities.
Palestinians are forced to live in parts of destroyed territories or are forced to be -- or are displaced as a result of the continued military aggression, the continued demolition of houses, the uprooting of trees and farms and the closure of roads and crossing points and intensification of the -- of [inaudible] and the increasing settlement activities of the Israelis.  
The Israeli practices target entire communities, depriving them from earning their livelihood, deprive them of employment, depriving them of going to school, universities, hence institutions -- these are all factors that increase poverty among the Palestinians and leads to the deterioration of their living conditions and economic sufferings.
Gradually and in a systematic way [inaudible] seeks to blot out all the elements that could compose the future state of Palestine as a united geographical and [inaudible] entity, a viable state that can help to enhance peace and stability in the region and the world.
Mr. President, our debate on this item this year comes at a time when the report deals with the feelings of despair in the region that are the result of the Palestinian sufferings and the Israeli practices.  It is hence incumbent on the international community to spare no effort in its attempt to put an end to the Israeli practices and its measures against the unarmed Israeli-Palestinian population and to hold Israel responsible to implement the agreements and to implement the international resolutions and to allow to [inaudible] conduct of the Palestinian elections at their time and to help in their success, and to allow all Palestinians to participate, including the inhabitants of Eastern Jerusalem and to lift the blockades imposed on the Palestinian people unconditionally, and to put an end to the construction of the separatist, racist -- to the separation [inaudible] wall and to dismantle what has been completed regarding colonial -- the Israeli colonial settlement.
Israel should put an end to all plans and work programs and to withdraw from all the Arab occupied territories occupied in 1967 in Palestine, the Syrian Golan, the [inaudible] in Lebanon.  It's also incumbent on the international community to reject as null and void all resolutions and measures adopted by Israel that run contrary to the international [inaudible] and all attempts to erode the sovereign -- the Palestinian sovereignty on the holy city being the capital of the Palestinian state.  There must be a just solution to the problem of refugees in [inaudible] with the international resolutions, including resolution 194 and to enable the Palestinian people to establish their independent state from their territory.
Mr. President, the world's hopes were revived following the Israeli withdraw from the Gaza strip is today required to exercise more pressure on Israel to push it towards the same track in order to take more steps to reach the borders of the 5 June 1967 in a manner that would realize a total, comprehensive and just settlement to this conflict out of conviction of the right of each and every individual and the right to living, and not to anyone to live at the expense of others and to retain to the peace process in conformity with that Arab initiative, the Madrid conference and their relevant international resolutions, the road map.  Therefore, the land for peace in order to enable the Palestinian people to establish their independent state from their national territory.
In conclusion, we would like to commend the efforts deployed by Her Excellency, the Secretary of State of the United States which enabled us to reach an agreement on the freedom of movement on the Palestinian crossings, as well as the efforts of the quartet to advance the peace process in the region.  
Mr. President, we thank you for the floor sir.