Statement Of
Condemnation
A Statement of Condemnation from Lawsfield regarding the UN Security Council Resolution No: 2803
The UN Security Council issued Resolution 2803
on November 17, 2025, regarding the ending of the "conflict" between
the State of Palestine and Israel. This resolution stipulated welcoming the
plan presented by US President Donald Trump regarding ending the
"conflict" and praised the countries supporting this resolution. The
Council welcomed the establishment of a "Peace Council" as a
transitional administration with independent legal personality and the
establishment of an international stabilization force.
The Security Council is mandated by all
member states to maintain international peace and security in accordance with
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. This Charter gave the Council
extraordinary powers to carry out its work, granting it the right to take
military and non-military measures. When reading history, we find that the
Security Council exercised these powers and imposed a siege on Iraq in 1991
during the invasion of Kuwait. So why does it not intervene now and impose a
siege on the brutal Zionist entity of Israel? The Council intervenes when it
wants and stands idle when it wants. Its criteria for intervention to maintain
international peace and security are nothing but ink on paper. This
demonstrates its double standards, which reflect racism and the inhumanity of
Western politics.
Acquiescence to this resolution leads to
rejected consequences, which are:
- Acquiescence to
the genocide committed by the Zionist entity by considering it a party
whose political interests are prioritized in the resolution.
- Acceptance of the
Israeli narrative regarding the 7th of October, which specialized
international committees, media investigation teams, and teams belonging
to humanitarian organizations on the ground have undertaken to refute and
question repeatedly.
- Ignoring the
provisions of International Humanitarian Law, which dictates that the
conflict between Palestinians and the Zionists has not stopped since 1948.
- The resolution
carries no guarantees for the Palestinian people regarding political or
international representation and deprives the Palestinian people of their
right to self-determination.
- The resolution restores
the situation politically to how it was before the genocide, which means
authorizing the Zionist side to continue the occupation activities it was
carrying out.
- The resolution
places the responsibility of governing Gaza onto an international body supported
by countries favoring the Zionist side, without stating any timeframes for
the transfer of power, raising fears of that body cooperating against the
interests of the Palestinian people.
- The resolution
involves cooperation with figures and institutions accused of committing
genocide, making the Security Council a partner by overlooking that
genocide.
- The resolution
entrenches the Security Council's violations of the UN Charter precedent
to its tasks, especially regarding maintaining international peace and
security and guaranteeing the right to self-determination.
This resolution is an international
disgrace. The Security Council, which is supposed to maintain international
peace and security, stands helpless before the Palestinian cause and, quite
coldly, accepted the US President's proposal to stop the "state of
conflict" as he described it. This is a clear and explicit submission to
American hegemony. The Council's welcoming of the establishment of a Peace
Council for transitional administration is shameful, and even more shameful is
its establishment of an international stabilization force. If the Council can
establish such a force, we ask: why did it not establish a similar force to
deter occupation attacks? The Council authorized to maintain international
peace and security is working to legitimize genocide or establish an occupation
force under the name of the Peace Council! This Council is nothing but an
occupation under a new name, and the international community's acceptance of it
is nothing but a public falsification of history.
The same international community that
agreed to law-making treaties stands idle today when they are breached. The
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which the
community agreed to, states in its preamble: (... recognizing that at all
periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity; and being
convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge,
international co-operation is required.) So, what is the matter with
nations today? This convention was legislated to stop the crimes of
extermination that happened against the Jews (the Holocaust), where the
international community sympathized with them to the utmost degree. But what is
the difference between what is happening to the Palestinian people now and what
happened with the Jews? Both peoples were killed! The result is the same, but
the methods are different. The Jews were burned before the international
community, which did not stand idle but legislated a complete convention for
their sake! But in the State of Palestine, everyone stands idle, and the most
they have offered is denunciation and condemnation!
We, Lawsfield Platform, today do not
announce our denunciation and categorical rejection of what is happening in
Palestine by the brutal entity; rather, we announce a state of mourning for the
death of humanity in all countries of the world. Since the dawn of history, the
international community has not moved a muscle regarding what is happening in
Palestine, and massacres against them have continued since 1948. What is
happening in the State of Palestine has exceeded the description of war crimes
and reached the stage of systematic genocide of an entire people and an entire
state under the eyes of the entire international community. We stand today
before a witnessed crime, complete in its elements, and the killer in it is
known, but who has the courage to arrest them?
The Security Council has worked through the
United States to protect the Zionist entity and transformed into a platform to
justify the systematic genocide of the Palestinian people. The Western
countries that claim to protect human rights have been exposed before their
peoples; the lie of protecting human rights and democracy has appeared. These
countries have gone further than that, as they obstructed the arrival of the
"Convoy of Steadfastness" to Palestine. Is this the behavior of
countries calling for human rights? As for the Arab countries and their
governments, they are busy with normalization as usual; they have not and will
not offer the people of Palestine anything but "denunciation,
condemnation, deploring, and rejection," and this is nothing new for them.
The strange thing that will not happen is the Arab countries providing
assistance to Palestine beyond deploring and denunciation.
We in Lawsfield Platform pledge to call
things by their names and to support the Palestinian people with what we
possess of voice, aid, and knowledge. Denunciation is for us, the civil society
organizations; if no one remains but us to provide assistance, it is a black
mark that will stand next to the rights of the Palestinian people in the face
of any recognition of the utility of international law or its protection of
human rights.
For the testament of blood cries out:
Resist.
In the night, they knocked on every door...
Every door... every door.
And they implored us not to heap dust upon
the precious blood.
Their eyes, extinguished to enkindle us,
spoke in reproach:
"Do not bury us with anthems; immortalize us
with steadfastness.
For we are enriching the soil for the buds
of the new light."
Mahmoud Darwish "Eyes of the Dead on the Doors"
following the Kafr Qasim Massacre, in 1956.
The members of Lawsfield