The Palestinian ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Abdullah Shawesh has taken an exception to the action of the United States vetoing his country’s application for full membership of the United Nations (UN).
Speaking in Abuja at the weekend, Shawesh viewed the US opposition to the Palestinian membership of the global organisation as a support to Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza.
“US has vetoed a Palestinian request to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for full membership and becoming the 194th member state of the United Nations.
“The US said the ‘full membership of Palestine in the United Nations will not help in reaching a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict’.
“Not only did they repeat their unfair position and fully back the Israeli occupation but they also considered the Israeli brutal occupation as just,” he said.
The envoy fingered the US as the major sponsor of Israel in the genocide going on in Gaza.
“The United States stands strongly against Palestinian legitimate rights. The United States is the iron shield of the Israeli occupation.
“The United States is against the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, which is a basic human right.
“The United States is the largest sponsor of the Israeli occupation. The US veto green light to the current Israeli genocide and entrenches the Israeli occupation.
“The current carnage and genocide could not have occurred without the full political complicity and unlimited military support of the United States.
“USA took the same Israeli political stand of the Palestinian UN membership,” Shawesh said, revealing that no fewer than 34,183 Palestinian had been killed since the commencement of attacks on 7 October 2023,” he added.
He said 77,143 people were injured, 8,425 arrested, including 280 women, 540 children, 45 journalists, and 5,210 administrative detentions.
However, he pointed out that casualty figure does not include those Gazans arrested and forcibly hidden.
