Israel treats Palestinians as ‘disposable objects’: Saudi Arabia tells ICJ

Ziad al-Atiyah, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the Netherlands, says Israel must be held accountable for flouting international law calling its actions indefensible:

• The Kingdom expresses its profound revulsion for the killing of civilians in Gaza and Israel’s protracted impunity
• Israel’s argument that it has a right to self-defence distorts reality. Depriving the Palestinian population of all means of survival is not justified under any circumstances
• Israel is dehumanising Palestinians and treating them as disposable objects. It is committing genocide against the Palestinian population.
• Israel continues to ignore the calls for a ceasefire as well as the court’s provisional measures. More generally, it is in continuous breach of numerous UN resolutions and it is making it impossible to establish a Palestinian state by expanding illegal settlements and expelling Palestinians from their homes, despite the repeated condemnation of this practice by the UN Security Council