NEW YORK, December 22, 2006 (WAFA) - Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, said that "in the month of November alone, Israeli occupying forces killed over 100 Palestinians, 35 of them were children."

In a letter to Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the UN Security Council, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, President of the UN General Assembly and Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Mansour said that this astounding figure reflects Israel's disdain of the international community's grave concern about the occupying Power's military assaults against Palestinian civilians.

"In fact, the occupying Power's continued military aggression against the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank and its siege of the Gaza Strip send a clear message of Israel's breach of international law and its violation of the rights of the Palestinian people," reads the letter.

"The humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, especially in the Gaza Strip, has seriously deteriorated. Now, Palestinians find themselves under constant closure by the occupying Power and besieged financially."

Yet, read the letters, despite Israel's continued military aggression and the heavy toll Palestine's sons and daughters pay for the occupying Power's disdain of international law and Palestinian rights, we remain committed to these very laws and principles the occupying Power refuses to honor.

It cannot be acceptable for Israel, the occupying Power to act as if it is above international law and immune from international reproach, according to the letter.

"It should not be allowed to continue in this bloody course of actions, violating international law, and crushing Palestinian aspirations. Instead, urgent action from the international community must be present to confront it and return it to the family of nations that respect and abide by international law," it added.

The letter concluded that "we will continue to work tirelessly, with the international community, to ensure that this happens and it is our hope that this letter would further motivate the adoption of an appropriate and firm reaction that would confront Israel's seemingly unstoppable campaign of death and destruction against the Palestinian people."

A.D (21:10 P) (19:10 GMT)