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12 December 2025

Identical letters dated 12 December 2025 from the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council

With its trademark impunity, Israel, the occupying Power, carries on with violent, deadly assaults and a colonization, ethnic cleansing and incitement campaign throughout Occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem. Just as it has violated every resolution prior, it is systematically and recklessly violating Security Council resolution and the ceasefire agreement at its core.

Palestinian civilians, among them children, continue to be murdered and wounded by Israeli occupying forces and settlers, who also continue to harass and terrorize Palestinian communities and to seize Palestinian lands and destroy property with rising viciousness. They do so led by an Israeli government relentless in its dehumanization of the Palestinian people and explicit in its plans to annex Palestinian land, to forcibly transfer and ghettoize Palestinians and to prevent their self-determination and the independence of the State of Palestine.

In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israel is ramping up its settlement activities in grave breach of international law and in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution and the 2004 and 2024 advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice. Its intent is clear: to undermine the State of Palestine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and contiguity and the viability of the two-State solution on the pre-1967 borders. The Israeli Prime Minister and other officials continue to openly proclaim denial of Palestinian statehood and schemes to thwart Palestinian self-determination.

Since my previous letter, countless more crimes have been committed by the Israeli government, army and settlers as part of this illegal colonization campaign. Settler terror attacks continue targeting Palestinian villagers, especially farmers and shepherds, with settler gangs causing civilian casualties, setting fire to homes and vehicles and destroying crop lands.

Rather than holding settlers accountable for their crimes, Israeli occupying forces continue the abduction, detention and abuse of Palestinian civilians, including some recently released in the hostage-prisoner exchange and including torture and medical neglect leading to the death of nearly 100 detainees since October 2023. This is occurring under the constant incitement of government officials, including the Israeli Minister of “National Security”, himself a settler, who last week wore a “golden noose pin” as part of his push to enact the death penalty against Palestinian detainees, who face a 99 per cent conviction rate in Israel’s military courts, typically without evidence and always without due process.

Moreover, Israel’s Finance Minister, also a settler, has again declared that Israel is “advancing de facto sovereignty” in the West Bank. Recently announcing government approval for construction and expansion of 49 settlements, or so-called “outposts”, including 8 new settlements, he stated that 51,370 settlement units have been approved under his tenure, boasting of his role in the commission of such war crimes aimed at driving Palestinians off their land and destroying the two-State solution.

In this regard, Israel also continues its provocative, illegal actions targeting occupied East Jerusalem. On 8 December, Israeli occupying forces, continuing the assault on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), seized the United Nations compound held by ???? UNRWA in the Shaykh Jarrah neighbourhood of the city, removed United Nations assets from the compound and hoisted the Israeli flag above it. This deplorable act was carried out in breach of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the inviolability of United Nations premises, international humanitarian law, numerous relevant United Nations resolutions and the 22 October 2025 International Court of Justice advisory opinion, which affirmed the Convention’s applicability in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including with regard to UNRWA.

Israeli annexation threats and schemes also continue against Gaza, including declarations by Israeli officials that the temporary ceasefire line, the so-called “yellow line”, is the new border between Gaza and Israel. This is yet another violation by Israel of the ceasefire agreement mediated by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye, in addition to hundreds more violations committed since the ceasefire began.

Furthermore, it constitutes a breach of international law prohibiting acquisition of territory by force and prohibiting an occupying Power from altering the demography, legal status and character of occupied territory. Israel’s attempts to de facto annex more Palestinian land must be stopped, and it is urgent to move into the agreement’s next phase to accelerate the withdrawal of Israeli occupying forces from Gaza and enable recovery and reconstruction to proceed.

It is equally urgent to halt the continued deprivation of the Palestinian civilian population in the face of ongoing Israeli restrictions on and disruptions of the flow of life-saving aid to Gaza. Israel continues to prevent the unfettered humanitarian access demanded by this catastrophic humanitarian situation in order to address the needs of, and enable healing and recovery for, the survivors of genocide. This includes unimpeded access by the United Nations and its agencies as required by the International Court of Justice provisional measures orders and advisory opinions and also by the ceasefire agreement and Security Council resolution and other relevant resolutions.

It is impossible to fully describe the extent of the suffering and hardships being endured by Palestinian families in Gaza as aid and care continue to be obstructed and delayed. It remains a situation of ongoing agonies amid ongoing atrocities. As recently stated by The Elders, “Palestinians’ daily reality on the ground is still one of death, hunger and displacement.”

Malnutrition remains rampant as the population continues to be denied access to sufficient and nutritious food supplies and the medical care required to address the impact of the starvation and famine endured under Israeli siege. As reported by the United Nations Children’s Fund, over 9,300 children were hospitalized for acute malnutrition in October, as well as over 8,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women, struggling to care for their unborn and newborn babies, many of whom have become ill and many of whom have died in this grim winter, deprived of the food, medicine and shelter needed to ensure their survival.

In this regard, left without adequate shelter materials, which also continue to be restricted, Palestinian families continue to be exposed to the harsh elements. Cold rains are pelting Gaza, flooding makeshift tents and crowded shelters and compounding the misery of the prolonged displacement of nearly the entire population. As the Norwegian Refugee Council reported, “Due to severe restrictions, [United Nations] and international aid organisations have only been able to bring in 15,600 tents for 88,000 people, while 1.29 million still need shelter to survive the winter.”

According to reports just today, at least 12 Palestinians, including babies, have died as a result of heavy rains and high winds that have collapsed 13 homes and thousands of tents. All of this is happening even as more than 6,500 trucks continue to wait to be allowed into Gaza with desperately needed winter supplies, including tents, blankets, warm clothing and hygiene materials, delaying recovery efforts.

The international community cannot allow Israel to continue politicizing and militarizing humanitarian aid. The International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations vis-à-vis the presence and activities of the United Nations and other international organizations and third States was very clear in this regard, as was the resolution () adopted today by the General Assembly by an overwhelming majority of Member States.

In light of Israel’s continued systematic breaches and contempt for the rule of law, the international community must act forthwith to ensure Israel’s respect for its legal obligations as the occupying Power. This must include, inter alia, the enactment of measures and sanctions, in accordance with international law and the relevant resolutions, including General Assembly resolution , to hold Israel accountable and to uphold the authority and integrity of the law in the face of such rabid attempts to shred it.

Moreover, all attempts must be made to consolidate the ceasefire and to halt Israel’s repeated violations of it, including ongoing attacks, including air strikes and artillery bombardments, that have killed more than 383 Palestinians, including many children, and injured over 1,000 others in Gaza in the 60 days since the ceasefire began. The casualty toll now stands at 70,373 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza and 171,079 injured and maimed, in addition to more than 1,000 Palestinians killed in the West Bank.

This toll includes 627 bodies of victims recovered from under the rubble, among them 113 bodies found in mass graves in the courtyard of Shifa’ Hospital. Thousands of Palestinian children, women and men are yet to be exhumed from under the 68?million tons of rubble caused by Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza, along with hundreds of bodies that continue to be withheld by Israel and denied proper burial.

This illegal, colonial, apartheid occupation and its genocidal war on our people must be brought to an end. This necessitates, more than ever, serious action by the international community to uphold international law and legal obligations to act vis?à?vis this illegal, inhumane situation.

All efforts must be exerted to sustain the ceasefire and extend it throughout the whole of Gaza and the rest of Occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, and to bring desperately needed protection, sustenance and healing for the Palestinian people. Neither the mediators, nor the Security Council, nor the international community at large should accept Israel’s violations and cynical attempts to collapse the ceasefire agreement.

It is time to put a halt to this impunity that totally contradicts and undermines any and all efforts to achieve a just, lasting and peaceful solution that will finally ensure the rights of the Palestinian people, including to self-determination and the independence of the State of Palestine, and that will be the cornerstone of peace in our region and our world.

The present letter is in follow-up to our 879 letters on the ongoing crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which constitutes the territory of the State of Palestine. These letters, dated from 29 September 2000 () to 18 November 2025 (), constitute a basic record of the crimes being committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people since September 2000. For all of these war crimes, acts of State terrorism and systematic human rights violations against our people, Israel, the occupying Power, must be held accountable and the perpetrators brought to justice. This illegal colonial occupation and apartheid regime must end now.

I should be grateful if you would arrange to have the present letter distributed as a document of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 5, and of the Security Council.

(Signed) Riyad Mansour

Minister

Permanent Observer