Palestine UN Envoy Wears ‘End Apartheid’ Mask at Security Council Meeting

NEW YORK (KI) – Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations wore a mask saying “End Apartheid” at the monthly meeting of the Security Council, and urged the body to stop the Zionist regime from discriminating against Palestinians.
Riyad Mansour used the word “apartheid” at least 15 times during his address, where he called on the council to protect “our long-suffering people”.
“This council may not be ready to use the word, but apartheid is - and has been for a while now - our reality,” Mansour said at UN headquarters in New York.
“Israel may be outraged by the word [but] everyone else should be outraged by the policy. Condemnations alone will never suffice to deter Israel. It is time to translate your words into actions. Actions to end apartheid.”
He added that last month Zionist envoy Gilad Erdan brought a stone into the Security Council chamber so members could visualize the ‘violence’ that Zionists confront from Palestinians.
“I am so sorry, but the doors of this chamber could not fit Israeli F-16s, tanks, warships, military jeeps, drones, bombs and missiles,” Mansour said.
Mansour’s remarks build off the growing number of human rights organizations labeling the Zionist regime’s treatment of Palestinians as apartheid.
Meanwhile, in the early hours of Wednesday, Zionist troops arrested dozens of Palestinians in coordinated raids on several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned mass arrests of Palestinians by Zionist troops, stressing that the trend will not make the Palestinians give up the fight against the occupying regime.
In a statement, Hamas denounced the arrest of dozens of Palestinians, newly-released inmates, and resistance activists, including Sheikh Abdul Ghani Dwaikat, in the occupied West Bank by the troops.
“These arrests do not deter the Palestinian people and its activists in the West Bank from the Zionist occupiers from continuing to resist and intensify the fight against the occupying enemy,” Hamas said.
The resistance movement added these arrests were carried out in the context of the continuous aggression and organized repression of the Zionist occupiers against the Palestinian nation.
The resistance movement said these acts of aggression would not succeed in defeating the growing resistance of Palestinians and would not affect their determination to confront the occupiers.
Furthermore, the occupying regime demolished at least two Palestinian houses and a commercial unit in the occupied East Al-Quds, as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its land grab policies despite international outcry.
Palestinian media, citing local sources, reported on Thursday that the regime’s bulldozers flattened the residential and commercial buildings in the Baqa’an neighborhood.
The report said the staff of the regime municipality, under tight protection by police, first cordoned off the area around the building and then called in bulldozers for the demolition.
A two-story house was among the demolished buildings, it noted.
The occupying regime routinely demolishes Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds, claiming that the structures have been built without permits, which are almost impossible to obtain.