DayofPal—A coalition of activists and legal groups presented a petition to the UN in Chile, calling for stronger international action against Israel over war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, June 22, Nelson Hadad Heresy and Paula Abugattas, members of the group Lawyers for Palestine, along with Jihad Chahuán from the international initiative Sign for Palestine, held a hearing at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations headquarters in Chile.
During the session, they were received by the commission’s secretary, Luis Yáñez, to whom they formally submitted a presentation addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, supported by nearly 80,000 citizen signatures from Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
The delegation delivered the appeal at the UN’s ECLAC office and urged the UN Secretary-General to activate Article 99 of the UN Charter, which allows him to bring urgent threats to peace before the Security Council.
The petition argues that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has reached an unprecedented level of humanitarian crisis and calls for international mechanisms that could include suspension or expulsion of Israel from the UN.
It also references legal opinions and UN resolutions regarding Israel’s presence in the occupied territories and ongoing humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.
Supporters say the initiative reflects growing global civil society pressure, rather than state-led diplomacy, to push the UN to act amid what they describe as institutional paralysis at the Security Council.
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