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Normally all the flags of the UN’s 193 Member States and two observer States –
Palestine and Vatican City – are raised each weekday morning, and in alphabetical
order, then lowered in the afternoon.
The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, Riyad Mansour who attended the
simple ceremony in front of the Secretariat, said the gesture honoured the deceased
UNRWA staff members and all “Palestinian martyrs”, including thousands of children
killed in the “barbaric war”.
He stressed the need for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, along with
“hundreds of truckloads” of aid, medicine and water.
“And we want to stop the crime against humanity of forced mass transfer…to allow the
Palestinian people to stay in the Gaza Strip. It is our homeland,” he continued.
“We don't want to live a second Nakba. We want to stay in our homeland and to rebuild
the Gaza Strip.”
Mr. Mansour also expressed hope for “a political horizon” to end the occupation “so that
Palestinian people can live in freedom and dignity in our independent State, with Holy
Jerusalem as the capital of our State.”
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The AAFI Committee joined in this tribute with a moment of reflection at its
November Committee meeting.
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