We are back to square one. We believe that the council will respond hopefully in a better way tomorrow.

We are convinced that some members of the Israeli army who committed crimes of war must be brought to trial and punished for that,

Israel’s constant attempts to draw such parallels and to exploit the international fight against terrorism must be rejected.

A small victory was achieved for Palestine today, and we thank you all for that. That shall be a big victory.

We thought that the Israeli side had nothing to hide. Obviously they do.

The Palestinian people under Israeli occupation are now suffocated and besieged.

It is imperative for the international community to take measures in order to confront these Israeli policies and actions.

Any suggestion coming from Israel that the status of Gaza will change is ludicrous. They are controlling the borders, the air, the water, and we need approval for the crossing points and everything else. So...

Today, 10 more martyrs have fallen in the occupied territories, two of them children under 18,

We are disappointed at this wave of suicide bombings.

This wall is not about security. It’s about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land.

Acts of resistance by Palestinians in the occupied territories against the Israeli occupation are legitimate under international law, incomparable with acts targeting Israeli civilians in Israel itself.

We tried our best to stop these kinds of attacks through dialogue, but we also made it clear that, if need be, we will have to try to put an end to such attacks by...

The deliberate, excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force, including the extrajudicial executions, being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian civilian population constitutes a grave breach of international law.

There was no way to give up or go a step backward by giving up the legitimate needs of our people, including the need for international protection.

Aid to the Palestinian people should continue, whatever party is going to form the government.

It’s important to discuss what to do after the departure of Israeli forces from Gaza, including to discuss questions concerning east Jerusalem,

We think it’s reasonable. We think it’s objective, … There is no politics for anyone who wants to see the facts.

For us this is not a matter of principle, but an issue of the central problem of governing. At this point, there is no question that we cannot join. But if they consider a different...

We are making it clear that, for us, the central issue is actual need of cessation of settlement activities and construction of the wall,

Unless a range of problems in the Gaza Strip is resolved, it will turn into a huge prison camp,

We can’t speculate about the result of the elections but the political programs (of the Israeli parties) are clear and most of them are not conducive to reaching a real peace.

What we are looking for now is more decisive positions, more decisive actions (by the United Nations ) that hopefully would oblige Israel to go in the right direction,

Arafat wasn’t an obstacle for the peace process, … He was an obstacle to plans that were unacceptable to the Palestinians.

The situation remains very dangerous … and we believe that the council remains obligated to act,

The international media somehow portray the situation as if the Israeli side is making huge concessions, going out from Gaza and not listening to what’s happening in the West Bank, to what Israel has been...

The overwhelming majority of the council do support our request and do understand the gravity of the situation.

Israel must stop its attempts to interfere in and sabotage these elections.