NEW YORK ( Dispatches) – 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the United States for its continuing support for the Zionist regime’s war on Gaza and urged the international community to stop supplying weapons to the occupying regime.
“This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people,” he told the 193-member General Assembly on Thursday, in his first address to the chamber since the occupying regime launched the onslaught last October.
Abbas singled out Washington, saying it continues to provide diplomatic cover and weapons to the occupying regime despite the mounting death toll in Gaza, where Israeli attacks have killed over 41,500 people since October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
At least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli statistics, and around 250 others were taken captive.
“We regret that the United States, the largest democracy in the world, obstructed three times draft resolutions of the Security Council demanding Israel to observe a ceasefire,” Abbas said. “The U.S. alone stood and said, ‘No, the fighting is going to continue,’” he said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani also blasted Israel as an “occupation entity” that routinely violates international laws as it wages “brutal” war on Gaza and Lebanon, and urged the international community to act against Tel Aviv.
Speaking at the 79th UN General Assembly meeting on Thursday, al-Sudani said conflict in West Asia has intensified as a result of the Zionist regime’s unfettered actions.
He expressed “disappointment” in the UN and Security Council for not deterring Israel’s “aggression” against the people of Palestine and Lebanon.
Al-Sudani said the UN faces a critical test of its ability to ensure “international security, stability and human rights.”
“Today we are witnessing the UN charter and international laws being violated and the right of self-determination is ignored,” he said.
“The world is being pushed toward full-scale confrontation and conflict while the Security Council is powerless and without a role.”
Slovenia’s foreign minister on Thursday called for an end to Israel’s wars in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and for peace in the wider West Asia.
Tanja Fajon also urged more countries to follow in the footsteps of her nation by recognizing Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, and called on the Zionist regime to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupies, follow the rules of international law and respect the UN Charter.
Her appeal to the international community followed an informal, high-level meeting, chaired by Slovenia in its role as president of the UN Security Council this month, between council members and the secretary-general and other representatives of the Arab League.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has implored members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to act as the Zionist regime’s bombardment of his country has now killed and wounded thousands of people since Monday.
 “Israel is violating our sovereignty by sending their warplanes and drones to our skies,” Mikati told the emergency meeting at UN headquarters in New York.
De-escalation is urgently needed, Mikati said, as Israel’s aerial bombardment, attacks on electronic devices and threatened ground invasion have spread “terror and fear among the Lebanese citizens in full view of the world”.
Lebanon’s foreign minister on Thursday stressed the urgent need for international intervention to address the crisis in his country.
“Lebanon is currently enduring a crisis which is threatening its very existence,” Abdallah Bou Habib told the UN General Assembly.
The crisis “will transform into a black hole that will engulf regional (and) international peace and security” if the world continues to remain “immobile,” he said.
China’s Foreign Minister also stated that wars and conflicts currently raging West Asia reveal the United States’ double standards in regards to human rights.
According to a statement by China’s Foreign Ministry, during a meeting in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of this week’s UN General Assembly, Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, asked UN Human Rights chief, Volker Turk, “If the United States cares so much about the human rights of Muslims, why does it continue to provoke or support wars in the Middle East and other regions, causing large numbers of innocent Muslim casualties?”