Children facing extermination, starving to death in Gaza: Qatar

QNA
Doha: A threat of extermination is looming over hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah, in southern Gaza Strip, while thousands in northern the enclave are starving to death, the State of Qatar warned on Tuesday, urging the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to stand firmly and strongly against the blatant international humanitarian law violations and collective punishment of civilian Palestinians.

This came in Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs H E Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater’s speech before the High-Level Segment of the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, where Her Excellency warned that Palestinians are living hell on Earth under an apartheid regime well before Oct 7.

Highlighting the UN Security Council’s failure to pass a cease-fire resolution, the 45th in its modern history and the third since Oct. 7, Al Khater called for an immediate ceasefire and for the hostilities against Gaza to stop.

All resolutions that were adopted, including Resolution 2720, which demands unimpeded humanitarian aid delivery to civilians in Gaza, were largely ignored by Israel, the Minister said, wondering whether human rights principles are applied to everyone as the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Her Excellency highlighted the mounting condemnation worldwide for applying human rights principles to some peoples while depriving others, which means that some people are seen as deserving of protection, freedom and self-determination, but others are not.