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Syria tells UN General Assembly Israel’s actions amount to ‘genocide’ and demands lifting of unilateral measures
Summary
Syria’s foreign minister told the General Assembly that Israel’s operations since Oct. 7 have killed ‘‘more than 42,000 Palestinians,’’ mostly women and children, and urged member states to lift unilateral coercive measures that, he said, punish civilian populations and impede humanitarian relief.
His Excellency Basam Saba, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, told the United Nations General Assembly that Syria has endured a decade of what he described as ‘‘unparalleled suffering’’ and condemned what he called Israeli ‘‘genocide’’ in Gaza. ‘‘Since the 10/07/2023, the Israeli occupation has continued to commit bloody and terrorist crimes…which has claimed the lives of more than 42,000 Palestinians, most of whom are children and women,’’ he said.
Saba accused ‘‘certain western countries’’ and the United States in particular of preventing the…
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