Debate on Israel and Somalia's Actions

The claims made by the representative of Israel who spoke

before, before me.

I will make three points, Excellence.

First, actions of occupying power in Palestine,

and indeed in the broader region, are well documented.

These actions constitute clear violations of international

law. What we see today,

and time and time again, are acts to terrorize civilian

populations and crimes against humanity and forced

displacement of a whole community,

starvation of innocent people, and killing

and maiming hundreds of thousands.

And someone doing all these things are lecturing us today,

what, what they call, uh, genocide and things like that.

I'm shocked to listen to the outrageous comments from the Israeli

representative.

If we want to talk about genocide, it's Israel that's committing

on our own eyes every day.

He represents a government that killed more than seventy thousand

people,

civilians, including children, women, elderly,

doctors, and other health workers, and patients in

hospitals.

Destroying infrastructures,

deliberately starving people of Gaza.

To come before us, esteem- esteemed council,

and accuse Somalia of committing ge- genocide

is just ridiculous and it's unbelievable.

The other thing that I want to add is, he has no idea what

Somali is and where Somalis are, and what Somali stands

for. I think the history is a selective history that he

has just generated on his own mind.

Let me give you some lessons on this.

There is a systematic--

Uh, is a troubling, um, uh... Somalia is one

country, one people, one religion that

fought together

for independence from the colonial.

And Somalia is again one that's

fighting terrorist organizations in the Horn of

Africa by as one group, one religion,

one ethnic group. And then when you say the Somaliland, the

Somaliland, that was a British Somaliland.

It was, uh, two regions, the northeast region and northwest region.

And now northeast region is part of, which is forty-five

percent of the land and the population, are part of the federal government of

Somalia. What we're talking about is northwest, which is

also having a problem. Half of northwest is now all

the region, which is close to the Djibouti border.

And they are totally against what the Isaaq people that you say, Isaaq

genocide. And there was no such genocide in Somalia took

place. Somalia, we had a civil war, and the civil war

has its own effects, and we believe the civil war was also

financed from outside. So to, to come to this

place and lecture us humanity, and

genocide, and human rights, and independence, and

democracy, and we know what you're doing on a daily

basis, is just an insult. And I, I cannot take it

without responding to this