Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour has delivered a passionate appeal to the Security Council, calling on member states to support the draft ceasefire resolution for Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“Are we supposed to pretend we don’t know the objective [of Israel] is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza Strip, the dispossession of and forcible displacement of the Palestinian people,” he said.

He said that people who stand against the destruction and displacement of the Palestinian people have to be in favour of an “immediate ceasefire”.

“Enough is enough,” he said, adding that the Israelis are taking the world “for a ride” and people should wake up to see “reality as is”.

“Everything we built as humanity after the Second World War was to prevent these horrors […] Now, they are taking place in Gaza against the Palestinian people.”