Algeria: The failure of the Security Council to act to stop the genocide is a "shame."

The Algerian representative to the United Nations Security Council, Ammar Ben Jamel, stated on Thursday that the council's failure once again to reach a decision to cease fire in Gaza is "a disgrace for our inability to act against the genocide that is unfolding before our eyes."

This came in a speech following the Security Council's failure to pass a resolution to stop the fire in Gaza, after the United States once again used its veto power.

He considered the council's repeated failure to stop the genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza as "a moment as clear as daylight; either stand up to stop the genocide or remain complicit in these crimes."

The Algerian representative began his speech by apologizing to the Palestinian people, saying: "O Palestinian brothers, forgive us, you in Gaza where the flames consume you and the rubble suffocates you, and the council has not been able to protect you and your women, where the Zionist entity has killed more than 12,000 of them."

He added: "The council has not been able to save your children, where the Israeli occupation has killed more than 18,000 children, and has also killed more than 4,000 elderly people."

He continued: "Forgive us for not being able to defend your journalists, of whom the Israeli occupation has killed more than 250."

Ben Jamel explained that the Security Council's failure to assist the Palestinians "is disturbing, as the Israeli occupation is protected, and due to international bias towards it, it kills Palestinians daily and no one moves a finger."

He confirmed, on the other hand, that "despite the failure to pass the resolution to cease fire in Gaza, efforts supporting the Palestinian people will continue until they achieve their rights to establish an independent Palestinian state."

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging war on the Gaza Strip with American support, which international human rights organizations have described as "genocide," resulting in the deaths of 65,141 Palestinians and the injury of 165,925 others, most of whom are children and women, in addition to the displacement of hundreds of thousands and famine that has claimed the lives of 435 Palestinians, including 147 children.