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by Statement Tareq Md. Ariful Islam to Nations Mission Bangladesh the United of of FirstSecretary Permanent at Political Decolonization and Committee Debate the Special of The General Nations General Assembly (Fourth of of Committee) the 61s Session the United on 'Repolt of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affectingthe Human Rightsof the PalestinianPeopleand Other Arabs of the OccupiedTerritories" [agenda item 32].
2006 NewYork,07 November

you steering on of Let me beginby warmlyfelicitating Mr. Chairman your skillful is appreciation owedto Ambassador Our the work of the Committee. profound the Special Committee and of of Kariyawasam Sri Lanka,Chairman Prasad (in Camaraof Senegal Ambassador Ousmane of members the Committee for refusal Ali Hamidon of Malaysia their effottsdespite and Geneva) Ambassador Palestinian Territories. to visitthe occupied by Israelto allowthe Committee Mr.Chairman, legislative like developments the Palestinian Overthe pastyear,somepropitious withdrawalof Israeli Government, new Palestinian formationof a elections, from the Gaza Stripand (IDF),evacuation Jewish Settlements of Forces Defence by a significantly West Bank accompanied in a few settlements the Northern had after the withdrawal level of violencebeforeand immediately decreasing in in raisedhopes of amelioration the plight of Palestinians the occupied quickly Israel's following continued evaporated suchhopes However, territories. pafticularly the wakeof policyand practices in to adherence counterproductive provides a dismal This report Government. election of the Palestinian policies effects practices and detailstheir devastating and of commentary such on andthe grimrealities the ground. in the depicts, humanrightssituations the clearly As the reportof the Committee following the eruption of occupiedterritories have reached a new low Israeli of by triggered the launching massive levelsof violence unprecedented paramilitary in operations June2006.Israeli to in offensives retaliation Palestine right,have whichis their legitimate resistance, the to actions subdue Palestinian

norms. RecentIsraeli military humanitarian brokenall known international the totallyisolated Gazastripfrom civilians, mostlytargetedagainst operations, pafts, took a heaw of the outsideworld and led to re-occupation its several and cut off women and children including civilians deathtoll on Palestinian These to assistance the affectedpopulation. humanitarian of access emergency basicutility households, damageto Palestinian attacksalso causedextensive of razedlargestretches agricultural and infrastructures establishments, seruices, and Evenschools channels. waterwellsand irrigation and croplands destroyed health clinicswere not cemeteries, mosques, institutions, other educational power plant in Gazawas bombedout of action severely spared.The only civic disrupting amenities. Syrian palestinian in communities the West Bankand Arabsin the occupied policy,draconian Israelisettlement Golanwere no less in a better situation. forces, policy of and ovenruhelming detentionlaws, use of indiscriminate on restriction land deprivation, confiscation, punishment economic and collective and of enhancement taxes, evacuation, and property ownership, movement of violation international in unabated flagrant continued of exploitation resources As the macabre territories. in the law transforming demography the occupied traumamightbefall that apprehends similar the continues, Committee campaign very communities soon. otherPalestinian Mr.Chairman, and on of to It is dismaying note that signing the Agreement Movement Access on restrictions heavier Rather the 2005,failedto improve situation. in November and peopleat most of the exports,impofts,services of movement Palestinian and barriers, and physical roadblocks of raising additional crossings, commercial the have emaciated and Palestinians routei for Israelis of building separa[e. of level.Suspension fundingby the major belowsubsistence activities economic by of donorsand non-payment taxes and revenues Israel to the Palestinian and Civil Palestinian Servants to has stoppedpaymentof salaries the Authority of Imposition the basefor sustaining basicutility networks. shrunkits resource are of regimeby Israeland tightening the closureregime de facto sanction and risein employment povety levelwhichis foi responsible the drastic chiefly catastrophe' the furtherexacerbating humanitarian to of the condemnation, Government Israel continues Despiteinternational the inside Palestinian wall--well pace,the separation in construct, an accelerated cutting deliberately routes greenlinealongplanned the and territory well beyond Palestinian Thisis destroying urbanareas. populated Palbstinian heavily through palestinian and and communities, cuttingoff their families spliiting settle-ments, and other health,education to access watercoir.ur, their lands,employment, policy to create and city centres.The Israeli and business socialservices, lands, of confiscation fertilePalestinian incremental zonesis causing segregation

the and and naturalresources, fufther aggravating encirclement water sources land. These well-orchestrated Palestinian of and isolation the ever-shrinking of integrity and contiguity Palestinian the are activities undermining territorial impediments the to They are serious morale. habitats and erodinga nation's Bangladesh reiterates solution. of RoadMapand to the achievement a two-state but the wall shouldnot only be stoppedimmediately of that the construction alsobe dismantled. builtshould already segments Mr.Chairman, as must be recognized centralto the of The phenomenon foreignoccupation power, legally morally absolve or cannot Israel, occupying the issue Palestine. of to Convention which in the FoufthGeneva enshrined itselfof the responsibilities resolutions adopted Council and Assembly Security The it is a signatory. General However, the report as of meeting theseobligations. overthe yearsalsoendorse trampling downthe basic Israelis systematically demonstrates, of the Committee people brazen and in continued with impunity humanrightsof the Palestinian for disregard all its obligations. practices the occupied in gravely at concerned the Israeli remains My delegation supportto the causeand We reiterateour full and unflinching territories. people a sovereign to and rightsof the Palestinian and inalienable legitimate withdrawal of full and immediate demand We homeland. therefore, independent We territories. alsocall upon Israelto exercise Israeliforcesfrom the occupied policies practices a total halt. to and and bringall its grisly restraint maximum Map drawn up by the Quaftetholdsthe key to a that the Road We maintain of the We fully endorse recommendations the peaceful to solution the conflict. and Committee urgefor theirimplementation. Mr.Chairman, obseruations by disturbed someof the Committee's is My delegation pafticularly and the Palestinians among level suchas, unprecedented of angerand misery perhaps the first time questioning, for territories; other Arabsin the occupied of crisis; and prevalence of ever,by the Palestiniansthe roleof UNin the current by plight is being neglected the international a generalfeelingthat their and lossof faith which is not a good Thesereflectthe frustration community. in timestherehas beensomelossof momentum the sign.Indeedin the recent It deliveries. is of and community absence tangible of exertions the international so in vigorously the peaceprocess that the ourselves high time we re-engage placed on and Israelis, peoples, bothPalestinians of confidence the peace-loving is the UNsystem vindicated. you Mr.Chairman. I thank