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Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said the General Assembly’s high-level week had demonstrated that efforts to marginalise Palestine on the global stage had failed, according to the source provided.
“Palestine was everywhere. Was the biggest elephant in the UN building, and maybe through the city of New York,” Mansour told the 15-member UN Security Council on Monday, at the conclusion of the assembly’s high-level week.
He said 152 UN member states had intervened to ensure that Palestinian delegates took part on an equal footing with representatives of other sovereign countries, overcoming visa denials imposed by the host country.
Mansour said the international backing showed that Palestine could not be “erased” or “ignored”, adding that the Palestinian people could not be made invisible and that their rights could not be eliminated through genocide, occupation, settlement or annexation.
Warning over annexation and the E1 corridor
The envoy described territorial annexation as an immediate reality rather than a future threat, saying land seizures and construction in the occupied West Bank were advancing “faster than ever”.
He specifically referred to construction tenders in the strategic E1 corridor near Jerusalem, calling them the final stage of a broader effort to “kill the Palestinian state, and with it, any prospect for peace”.
Mansour also accused Israeli authorities of seeking to undermine the Palestinian Authority. He said its collapse could create a “unique opportunity” for Israel to facilitate the forced displacement of Palestinians and the occupation of their lands.
Call for sanctions and accountability
Addressing international enforcement, Mansour said UN Security Council Resolution 2334 was not intended to be optional and argued that decades of verbal condemnation had failed to stop territorial expansion.
“The time has come to move from statements to measures, from condemnation to accountability, and from declarations of solidarity to implementation,” he said.
He called on member states to disarm occupiers in line with UN Security Council Resolution 904 and to hold officials, financial institutions and businesses accountable for financing unlawful expansion.
Referring to an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice, Mansour said third countries had binding legal obligations to deny recognition and material support to the occupation.
He urged foreign governments to end financial and defence ties, summarising the demand as “no money, no trade, no arms, to prolong the unlawful occupation”. He said global powers must show whether diplomatic statements would finally be followed by tangible consequences.
