Geneva: Morocco calls for immediate, comprehensive, sustainable cessation of Israeli war on Gaza

Morocco has called for the immediate, comprehensive, and sustainable cessation of the Israeli war on Gaza during the high-level segment of the ongoing 55th session of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC), chaired by the North African Kingdom.

“Gaza is experiencing an unprecedented crisis and a humanitarian catastrophe that the international community can no longer ignore. Hence the call from HM King Mohammed VI, in his capacity as President of the Al-Quds Committee, for an awakening of human conscience to end the massacre of human lives,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, in a speech he delivered in Geneva on Tuesday.

“Faced with the escalation of military operations and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, the Kingdom of Morocco reaffirms its consistent positions and once again and insistently calls for the immediate, comprehensive, and sustainable cessation of the Israeli war on Gaza and for ensuring the protection of civilians and not targeting them, in the context of continued random Israeli bombings of hospitals, schools, places of worship, and other civilian installations,” stressed Nasser Bourita.

The Moroccan top diplomat also emphasized the need to allow “smooth and sufficient delivery of humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, to protect Palestinians against forced exile, and to establish a political horizon for the settlement of the Palestinian issue, capable of reactivating the two-state solution, with the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

Nasser Bourita represents Morocco at the 55th session of the HRC, held under the presidency of the Kingdom in the person of Permanent Representative of Morocco to Geneva, Omar Zniber, who was elected as the head of the Council in January.

In his address, Bourita pointed out that Morocco’s presidency of the UNHRC will engage with credibility, dynamism, and the pursuit of constructive consensus to achieve the objectives of this UN body.

Building on its achievements at the national level and in line with its international commitments, the Moroccan presidency of the UNHRC will engage with the same principles, values, and working methods that characterize Moroccan diplomacy, namely credibility in action, dynamism in performance, innovation in methods, and pursuit of constructive consensus to achieve the lofty goals for which this body was created, Bourita.
The election of the Kingdom to head this major UN body is an international recognition of Morocco’s firm commitment to promoting human rights at national, regional, and international levels, he insisted.