{"id":302088,"date":"2024-10-07T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T13:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=302088"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T13:21:51","slug":"chair-statement-7october2024","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/chair-statement-7october2024\/","title":{"rendered":"This violence must cease, says the Chair of the UN Palestinian Rights Committee &#8211; Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>7 October 2024, New York:<\/em> Today, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee Chair, Ambassador Cheikh Niang issued the following statement on Committee&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UNISPAL\/status\/1843244885840642133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X account<\/a> (previously known as Twitter).:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>One year after the tragic events that claimed over 1,200 lives in Israel, which I strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/chair-statement-7october2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned,<\/a> and the devastating consequences of the disproportionate response in Gaza, where over 41,000\u2014primarily women and children\u2014have perished, it is clear that a ceasefire is urgently needed. As the UN Secretary-General has underscored, the situation in Gaza and the West Bank is dangerously destabilizing the region. This violence must cease. I urge an immediate halt of all hostilities, the release of all hostages, unrestricted humanitarian access, and an end to Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territories, including Gaza. The path to peace depends on it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-large wp-image-302089 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-1024x576.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271024%27%20height%3D%27576%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201024%20576%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271024%27%20height%3D%27576%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chairs-tweet-October-7-anniversary.png 1600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 7 October 2024, New York: Today, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee Chair, Ambassador Cheikh Niang issued the following statement on Committee&#8217;s official X account (previously known as Twitter).: One year after the tragic events that claimed over 1,200 lives in Israel, which I strongly condemned, and the devastating consequences of the disproportionate response in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/chair-statement-7october2024\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[1753],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6966,2265,2005,6790,6251],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-302088","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-ceirpp","document-subject-atrocities","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-genocide","document-subject-west-bank","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302103,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302088\/revisions\/302103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=302088"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=302088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}