Cairo, September 28 (QNA) - The Arab League on Sunday urged the United Nations to enforce the resolutions of international legitimacy so as to bring the war on the Gaza Strip to a close.

The Palestinian cause sets the UN in front of a tough test with respect to the criticality of enforcing the resolutions of international legitimacy, backing the laid-out directives and initiatives to end the war on Gaza and restraining the settlement breaches in the West Bank, including the occupied East Jerusalem, said Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Media and Communication Sector at the Arab League, Ambassador Ahmed Rashid Khattabi.

Khattabi stressed the importance of lending impetus to the path toward an enduring solution of the legitimate Palestinian cause based on the two-state solution, which received compelling global support, enabling the Palestinian people to live in dignity within an interconnected state that enjoys freedom, sovereignty, and independence.

The UN Security Council's impotence to cease the Israeli aggression against the Gaza enclave since October 2023 is the perfect example of this structural dysfunction in the international system, as the council has been crippled despite the crumbling humanitarian situation that reached unbearable and calamitous levels, he noted.

Khattabi further stressed that living elements have been destroyed in Gaza, as medical, educational, and media facilities have been targeted, coupled with acts of violence, killing, intimidation, as well as mass exodus due to the forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians to unknown places, in an image of a major demeaning setback.

The UN's celebration of the 80th anniversary of its founding in the aftermath of WWII, which caused mass destruction with millions of fatalities, pushed the nations that signed its charter to uphold their obligations to salvage the next generations from the scourges of war and move ahead to build a world where peace and security prevail, energized with cooperation in confronting major challenges, Khattabi underlined.

He pointed out that through these decades, wars and crises haven't disappeared in many parts of the world, followed by simultaneous questions about the UN’s credibility and capabilities to undertake the assigned missions, particularly at the UNSC level, as long as the latter shoulders the responsibility of maintaining global peace and security and wields the power of taking compelling decisions under Chapter VII. (QNA)