Kuwait reiterates supporting Palestinian, Syrian peoples’ rights
NEW YORK: Kuwait has reiterated full support of the Palestinian and Syrian peoples in gaining their legitimate rights, guaranteed under international legitimacy resolutions, as well as their sovereignty, and natural resources. Israel has imposed arbitrary constraints and measures, on administrative and security levels, upon the Palestinian people, depriving them from the freedom of movement and ignoring all international laws and norms, including UNSC resolution 2334 (2016), noted Kuwaiti diplomatic attache Luluwa Al-Douseri. She made the remarks at the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee on the sidelines of discussing report on the Permanent Sovereignty of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights over their natural resources.
The “unbiased” report addresses reality of Israel’s blatant violations and continued sectarian actions and policies in the occupied Palestinian territories that violate international human right laws, she said. Israeli actions such as depleting natural resources, constructing settlements, and demolishing the infrastructure in the occupied lands hinder all chances of achieving economic and social development in the Palestinian territories and the Syrian Golan, said Douseri. The UNSC resolution 2334 (2016) demands Israel to halt all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and fulfill its obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention, she noted.
Moreover, the UNSC resolution 497 (1981) declared that the Israeli Golan Heights Law, which effectively annexed the Syrian Golan Heights, is null and void and without international legal effect, and further calls on Israel to rescind its action, said Douseri. According to UNGA report, over 96 percent of Gaza’s coastal groundwater has become not suitable for human consumption due to Israeli over-usage, depriving the Palestinians from reaching such natural resources despite their legitimate sovereignty over them, she said. The Israeli occupying authority undermines all efforts aimed to attain the 2015 sustainable development goals through continuing to unlawfully expropriate and deplete natural resources in the Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan Heights, added the Kuwaiti diplomat. She affirmed rejection of all flagrant and hostile steps that Israel takes to expand and construct further settlements, adding permanent and comprehensive peace requires a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories.
“There is no place for development without peace, and there is no peace without development,” Douseri said, affirming that Kuwait, stemming from its firm historic principles, would spare no effort to back and support the Palestinian people and Arab legitimate rights on all levels. Kuwait aspires to restore the legitimate rights of Palestinian and Syrian peoples, and calls on the international community to stand by and support the two people to end their longsuffering, added the Kuwaiti diplomat.