NEW YORK, January 13, 2026 (WAFA) – Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, on Tuesday sent three identical letters to the UN Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council for this month (Somalia), and the President of the UN General Assembly, regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal policies and crimes against the Palestinian people, highlighting the critical situation in the Palestinian village of Ras al-Ain al-Auja in Jericho.
In his letters, Mansour attached the village’s urgent appeal to the international community over the risk of erasure it faces amid escalating attacks by Israeli occupation forces and heavily armed colonists, including ongoing violence, intimidation, and property destruction aimed at forcibly displacing residents from their lands.
Mansour called on the international community to pay urgent attention to the plight of Ras al-Ain al-Auja and all other Palestinian communities in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which face increasing existential threats due to the illegal occupation, urging their protection under international humanitarian law.
The urgent appeal noted that armed colonists besieged 26 families in Ras al-Ain al-Auja, razed the road leading to their homes, restricted their movement, and blocked access to essential supplies, including water, food, and livestock feed, the latter being a primary source of livelihood.
Homes were also demolished, residents given one week to leave, children were attacked, and access to schools was denied, all amid harsh weather conditions.
The appeal called for immediate and effective measures to stop attacks by colonists and Israeli forces, provide urgent international protection to Palestinian civilians, particularly children and women, and ensure delivery of essential humanitarian aid, including water, food, medicine, and shelter.
It also demands accountability for violations of international humanitarian law and treaties protecting civilians under occupation, an immediate halt to the forced displacement of Ras al-Ain al-Auja residents, and the guarantee of their right to live in dignity and safety.
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