爆料网

10 February 2026

Identical letters dated 10 February 2026 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

Israel, the occupying Power, persists with its illegal policies and practices aimed at further cementing its illegal occupation of the territory of the State of Palestine and expediting its long-running attempts to forcibly transfer the Palestinian population and annex the Palestinian land.

While the international community is attempting, in the face of persistent breaches and delays, to consolidate the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israel is intensifying its violent repression of the Palestinian people and unlawfully seizing Palestinian territory.

With methodical and malign intent, it has continued and escalated its confiscation of Palestinian land, construction and expansion of Israeli settlements, demolition of homes and properties, and forced displacement of Palestinian families and entire communities, while also undertaking a series of “legislative” measures and military orders, all blatantly aimed at creating more facts on the ground, entrenching Israeli control of our land and imposing Israeli sovereignty on it.

The latest of such illegal actions has been Israel’s decision to legislate measures to facilitate the takeover of Palestinian land, including through the cancellation of the Jordanian laws in place since 1948 and throughout the duration of this nearly 59-year occupation to enable the purchase of Palestinian land by Israeli Jewish settlers.

Further measures have expanded Israel’s unlawful “enforcement powers” throughout the West Bank, including in areas under the control of the Palestinian government, violating the obligation of Israel to cease its colonial settlement measures and to reverse and bring an end to its illegal occupation of the Palestinian land. This includes the transfer of building licensing and construction in Al-Khalil (Hebron) from the city’s Palestinian municipality to Israel’s so-called “Civil Administration” under the Israeli occupying forces and the establishment of a local Israeli government to oversee “Jewish settlement in Hebron”.

Moreover, in a further provocation, Israel has seized control over Al-Ibrahimi mosque and the Cave of the Patriarchs in the city. Likewise, in Bethlehem, measures adopted by the occupying Power have transferred the Rachel’s Tomb compound to an Israeli administration, separating it from the Bethlehem municipality that has always overseen the site, forcibly and illegally altering arrangements in place for not only decades, but centuries, over these religious sites.

Israeli officials do not hide their criminal aims to shred the Palestinian territory’s contiguity and viability, to alter its demography, character and legal status, to destroy the two-State solution, to annex our land and to perpetually thwart the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the independence and sovereignty of the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem.

This is exposed not only by the content of measures and actions taken, but also by the incitement and declarations of Israeli officials in this regard. For example, following the enactment of these new measures, Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich unambiguously stated: “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian State”.

All of these acts are being perpetrated in grave breach of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and countless United Nations resolutions, including Security Council resolution , and of the July 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and its affirmations of binding international legal norms, including the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force and the inalienable right to self-determination.

In this regard, it must be recalled that the Court determined, inter alia, that “policies, practices or other measures that are such as to bring the occupied territory under the occupying Power’s permanent control constitute acts of annexation” (para.?172), which, along with its “continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, violates fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful” (para. 261).

Furthermore, all of these illegal acts are being perpetrated in violation of the universal rejection of the annexation of the Palestinian territory and thus in blatant contempt of the entire international community.

This unequivocal rejection of annexation has been reaffirmed across all forums, including by the Security Council, by the General Assembly, including in its resolution and in the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, by the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, by Arab-Islamic countries, including a group of eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries, and by the United States President in the context of his peace efforts.

The Security Council must act forthwith to ensure respect of its resolutions on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to hold Israel, the occupying Power, accountable for all of its flagrant violations and breaches of the Council’s authority, the Charter of the United Nations and fundamental tenets of international law, including international humanitarian law.

The international community as a whole is likewise duty-bound to undertake actions to uphold outstanding legal obligations, including sanctions in accordance with international law, aimed at compelling Israel to immediately cease its violations and rescind and reverse all of its illegal policies, including all annexation measures. This is a matter of urgency to salvage the two-State solution and bring an end to this illegal occupation and assist the Palestinian people in realizing self-determination and the independence and sovereignty of their State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the foundation of a just solution that will enable them to live in freedom, dignity and peace in their land.

The present letter is in follow-up to our 884 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 2 February 2026 (), 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