text: ASUNITED NATIONS GeneralAssembly SecurityCouncilDistr. GENERAI, }'tt 44/ 947 s/21303 21 May 19 90 ENGLISH ORIGINAI,: FRENCH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Forty-fourth session Agenda iten 39 QUESTION OF PALESTINESECURITY COUNCIL Forty-fifth year Letter dated 21 May 1990 fron the Chairmaa of the CotPmittee on the Exercise of r-he Inalienable Riqhts of the Palestinian People addlessed to the Secretar'!'-Gene ral As Chairman of the Comnittee on the Exercise of, bhe Inalienable Rights of the P..lestinian People, I wish to express anguish and outrage at the massacre near Tef Aviv of Palestiniail workers from Gaza and. at the subsequent brutal repression by Israel, the occupying Polrer, against Palestinian demonstrators. According !o press dispatches by Reuters, Agence France Presse and UPI, and reports in The New York Tines anal The washinqton Post, a f,ortner rsraeli soldier dressed in arny trousers and brandishing an assault riffe tined up dozens of Palestinian workers on a roadside in Rishon Le-zioa, near Tef Aviv, in lhe morning of 20 May, and opened fire, killing 7 and lrounding 11. Defyi4g a curfelt irnPoseal by the Israeli arny, Palestinians took to the streets in great numbers throughout the occupied territory to protest against the massacre. A three-daY general strike was called by the leadership of the intifadah, In ttre ensuing confrontatioas, Israeli troops shot and killed another five Pafestiaians in Gaza aDd two in the West Bank, and woundeal at least 650 more. On behalf of the Cotunittee, I !.ish to protest in the strongest terns aqainst the indiscriminate actions by the Israeli army in firing on unarmed demonstratols 'who were understand.abLy enraged by the nassacre. The Comrnittee finds it unconscionable that the nurderous action of a disturbed individual, instead of leading to swift justice, should be used by the occuPying forces to launch a uew
analysis: The text appears to be a formal statement condemning a violent event, specifically a massacre of Palestinian workers by an Israeli soldier, and the subsequent brutal repression by the Israeli army against Palestinian demonstrators. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting a official or institutional context. The content focuses on human rights, violence, and political conflict, which are all related to international relations and politics.