The UAE representative to the United Nations affirmed, in the UAE’s speech to the Security Council, that the lives of Palestinians are precious and equal and deserve full protection by law, noting that “we have heard that 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza are not from Hamas, and that this is not a war against them, and while These words are welcome, the time has come to reflect them in actions. She added: More than 8,000 people were killed in Gaza, 70% of whom were women and children, and not all of them were Hamas, in addition to more than a thousand children missing, stressing that the number of children Palestinians killed in just weeks of Israeli bombing in Gaza exceeds the total number of children killed worldwide in the past four years.

She warned that ignoring what is happening day after day will have devastating consequences not only for Israel and Palestine, but for the prospects for peace and stability in the region.