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Thank you, Mister Chair,
Ambassador Jayantha Jayasuriya,
Excellencies,
Distinguished Delegates,

Last September, the General Assembly endorsed the New York Declaration, reaffirming support for the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and setting out a phased roadmap to revive the two-state solution, starting with an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the hostages.

Today, the ceasefire continues to hold in Gaza, thanks to the efforts of the guarantor nations. Together with the hostage and prisoner releases, it has brought huge relief and hope on both sides, after two years of unspeakable suffering.

But relief must not blind us to the reality of what has been done, and what remains for Palestinians in the occupied territory.

Mister Chair,

The conduct of hostilities in Gaza has been emblematic of what comes with the systematic violation of international human rights and humanitarian law. Pervasive impunity has facilitated the sheer scale of violations that the 蘑菇视频 Human Rights Office has monitored and documented. The system of international law, and its justice mechanisms, can only retain its legitimacy if those who have so flagrantly violated it are held to account, and justice for victims is served.

We must also not ignore that the killing and suffering in Gaza continues.

According to the Health Ministry, as of yesterday, 266 Palestinians have been killed and 635 injured since the ceasefire. Following the death of one Israeli soldier, a day-long Israeli bombardment killed over 100 Palestinians, at least 46 of them children.

The Israeli military retains on-the-ground control of approximately half of Gaza, a no-go zone for Palestinians. The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic, yet access is still largely restricted, with aid and supplies under Israel’s strict control and additional requirements imposed on INGOs. Aid allowed into Gaza since the ceasefire has been a drop in the ocean – despite binding orders by the International Court of Justice and its latest advisory opinion.

Mister Chair,

We must keep sight of the fact that the root cause of the cycles of killing and repression has not been addressed: namely, the denial of the Palestinians’ human rights, including their right to self-determination.

A prerequisite is for Israel to end its unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory. However, Israel continues to consolidate its annexation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory while emptying large parts of it of Palestinian communities???as the first report I present today highlights in detail.

The report of the Secretary-General on the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Syrian Golan, covers the year from June 2024 to May 2025.

It updates on the acceleration in Israel’s illegal settlement advancement, and its unlawful exercise of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, amounting to annexation of large parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

As of end May 2025, over 737,000 Israeli settlers were living in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 165 settlements and 271 outposts. Fifty-five outposts were established during the reporting year. This included for the first time outposts in Area B — an alarming development in settlement expansion. Commenting on the approval of 22 new settlements, the largest in decades, the Defence Minister declared this “prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state”.

An overarching institutional and legal regime of discrimination and oppression leaves Palestinians no choice but to leave their homes and their land.

This includes the illegal appropriation of land and resources — such as through declarations of so-called “State land” — and through a regime of demolitions and evictions. Each month, on average, 366 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from demolitions, compared with 224 during the previous reporting period.

Settler and state violence, which is increasingly indistinguishable, remained central to the coercive environment of violence, discrimination and oppression that induces forced displacement and forcible transfer, enables annexation and denies Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

In this regard, the report highlights that settlers have been enlisted and deployed in their areas of residence in large numbers for reserve duty and so-called “regional defence battalions”.

The report provides an update on settlement expansion in the occupied Syrian Golan, where the Israeli Government continued to seek doubling the settler population. In the wake of the fall of the former Syrian Government, the Israeli military seized control of further Syrian territory, impacting on the rights of local communities.

The report concludes that the ongoing forcible transfer of Palestinians, and the transfer of part of Israel’s own civilian population into occupied territory, continue to alter the character, status and demographic composition of the occupied West Bank, and may amount to war crimes and possibly a crime against humanity.

The report further concludes that the denial of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination continues to be perpetrated through an increasingly institutionalized and entrenched regime of systematic discrimination, violence and oppression by Israel.

The Secretary-General ends by calling again on Israel to end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including by evacuating all Israeli settlers.

Mister Chair,

The second report I am briefly introducing today is the Secretary-General’s report on the occupied Syrian Golan, submitted pursuant to resolution A/RES/79/90.

The General Assembly, through this resolution, called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with relevant resolutions, particularly Security Council resolution 497 (1981), which declared Israel’s imposition of its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan null and void and without international legal effect. It further called upon Israel to desist from changing the character, demography, structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, especially through settlement establishment, as well as from imposing Israeli citizenship and identity cards on Syrian citizens and from repressive measures.

The report summarizes Member States’ replies received to requests for information regarding any steps taken or envisaged concerning the implementation of the resolution.

Thank you.