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This emerged from the address of the head of the Algerian delegation and Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Rachid Bladehane, during the general debate on the 7th point of the agenda of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), regarding the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories and other occupied Arab territories.

 

Bladehane emphasized that Algeria strongly believes that peace and stability in the Middle East can only be achieved by silencing weapons, upholding international law, and ending the occupation of all Arab territories. This is the path to a just, lasting, and definitive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

 

Algeria’s representative to Geneva emphasized that this session "is taking place in a context marked by the continuation of the iniquitous war waged by the Israeli occupier against the Palestinian people, which has affected other Arab countries, the latest aggression being that conducted against Lebanon with hundreds of victims and wounded and more than a million displaced," specifying that the announcement by the Zionist entity of a ground offensive against Lebanon was "an adventure whose repercussions are unpredictable on peace and security in the Middle East."

 

After warning that "this scandalous behavior, flouting international laws and customs, risks plunging the entire region into a cycle of conflicts and wars and portends a new humanitarian catastrophe," the diplomat stressed that in the face of this situation, "Algeria appeals to the conscience of the international community and urges it to act quickly to take concrete measures to impose respect for the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, notably by prohibiting the supply of weapons to the occupier and by obliging it, through political and economic sanctions, to comply with all UN resolutions and decisions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), by implementing an immediate ceasefire and putting an end to operations of forced deportation, torture and the policy of discrimination.

Furthermore, Algeria advocates for the prompt return of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to resume its crucial work in Palestine. This, they argue, is essential to alleviate Palestinian suffering and address the root cause of the Middle East conflict: the 76-year occupation of Palestinian lands, a situation further exposed by the war in Gaza and escalating tensions in Lebanon.

Algeria finally insisted on the need to "increase international efforts to revive the peace process based on the two-State solution and the establishment of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with Al-Quds as its capital, guaranteeing the right of return for Palestinian refugees".

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