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The UAE’s initiative to bring 1,000 Palestinian children and their families from Gaza for medical care has gained momentum with the UN Security Council’s recent adoption of the first resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the UN, stated that the process has already commenced, with the first group expected to arrive within a week.
The resolution, which calls for humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza, is deemed crucial by the UAE for establishing an emergency field hospital in the region.
The UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, directed the airlifting of injured Palestinian children to receive treatment in Emirati hospitals, and preparations, including transporting medical equipment, are underway.
The resolution’s support enables the UAE to set up a 150-bed hospital in Gaza, contributing to humanitarian efforts amid the conflict.
The UAE welcomed the adoption of the resolution — “the first one on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2016”. However, it marks only the beginning of the world’s response to the war and the crisis in Gaza, said Nusseibeh.
“Too much time has passed, too many people have been killed, and too much destruction has been wrought,” said Nusseibeh.
The diplomat stressed that Israel must cease attacks on civilians and civilian objects. “They must uphold the special protections afforded, by international law, to hospitals and schools; and they must ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian access.”
She reiterated the UAE’s condemnation of Israel’s raid on the Al Shifa Hospital. “It is precisely this type of military action that today’s resolution rejects. Hospitals are sacrosanct spaces that must be protected. We’ve all received countless, unbearable messages of despair from medical workers in these hospitals, who have stayed and are pleading for their patients to be protected.”
Over the last 40 days, almost 200 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank as a result of settler violence and raids, said the envoy. “This must stop and Israel must hold those committing these attacks fully accountable.”
She called on the security council to resolve this conflict. “Over the last decade, there have been increasingly vocal warnings and signs that the Two-State solution is on its deathbed. What emerges from the ruins of Gaza may be our last chance to save it. But it will need all of us to continue working together, like we have done here today, to resurrect it. The fate of peace and security in our region is a shared responsibility and not the burden of a few.”
She stressed that Israel has the “absolute right” to security and peace free from the attacks like the one done by Hamas on October 7, “but so does a future Palestine”.
“Israel’s security, genuine and lasting, will remain elusive if it’s built on the continued denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination. Any policy that seeks to obscure that fact is doomed to failure,” she added.
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