The Security Council, and the world community, cannot sit back and watch this on-going ethnic cleansing. A failure to halt this brutal war will unleash the worst instinct of powerful and predatory States; shred the principles of the UN Charter, designed to prevent aggression and the scourge of war; and create a ‘Hobbesian hell’ of conflict and chaos." Ambassador Munir Akram speaks at the UN Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.