The United Nations General Assembly met this Thursday, in an emergency, to analyze a resolution proposed by Arab countries, which call for an immediate ceasefire and the revocation of the order for Palestinians to flee to southern Gaza. Present at the debate, the Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to the UN exchanged accusations.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, compared Hamas to the Nazi regime on Thursday, showing images of Israelis allegedly killed in this conflict, after having observed a minute of silence for the victims.
The Israeli official also regrets that the resolution presented this Thursday is “an insult to the intelligence” of the member states.
“The massacre of October 7 and what followed has nothing to do with the Palestinians. It has nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict, nor with the Palestinian question. This is not a war with the Palestinians. Israel is in war with the Palestinians. “The genocidal jihadist terrorist organization Hamas. That’s all. It is Israel’s law-abiding democracy against the Nazis of modern times. These are the facts,” says Gilad Erdan, who adds that the group “does not care about the Palestinian people.”
“It doesn’t care about peace or dialogue. Hamas only has one goal: to annihilate Israel and murder all the Jews on the face of the Earth,” he says.
The Israeli ambassador criticizes that the resolution “does not even mention” Hamas, pointing out that the document “is an insult to the intelligence” of the member states and stating that it is “incomprehensible” that it could be put to a vote.
“The Arab countries see you as a puppet. They draft a resolution completely devoid of any content related to the situation. They assume that you have already forgotten who is responsible for this inhuman violence and expect you to automatically support it,” he argues.
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, accused Israel this Thursday of using all possible arguments to attack Gaza, highlighting that, while the conflict is debated, civilians continue to be killed in Gaza.
“Let us all remember that we are gathered here while Palestinians in Gaza are under bombs. Remember that we are speaking while families are being killed. While hospitals are being closed, while neighborhoods are being destroyed, while people are fleeing from one place to another, with “There is no No safe place to go. I ask you to choose your words carefully and act accordingly,” Riyad Mansour began.
The representative of Palestine spoke about the victims of the bombings and recounted some of the dramas he has witnessed, such as the man hugging his mother’s body, asking her to return, “as if she were a girl.”
“We are here, at the United Nations, to save future generations from the scourge of war. Israel says to release the hostages, but two million Palestinian hostages are needed,” accuses Riyad Mansour, who highlights that in Gaza “there is no time “. cry”.
“Why do some feel so much pain for the Israelis and so little pain for us Palestinians? What is the problem? Do we have the wrong faith? The wrong skin color? The wrong nationality? The wrong origin? “asks the Palestinian Ambassador, who highlights that in Gaza “you don’t hear politicians’ speeches.” “They just hear the bombings.”
Riyad Mansour regrets, therefore, that some representatives try to explain “how horrible it is that a thousand Israelis have been murdered and do not feel the same indignation when a thousand Palestinians are murdered every day”, arguing that “nothing can justify war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide”.
Haunted by the lack of empathy towards Palestinians, Mansour points out that a thousand civilians die every day, reinforcing that “nothing can justify the murder of a single child” in Palestine.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN states, on the other hand, that the “atrocities committed by Hamas have not been seen since the Holocaust.”
“However, unlike the Holocaust, where the evidence we have is mostly black and white photographs and silent footage, here the evidence is in high definition. Because some of it is security footage, yes, but a lot of it comes from cell phones and GoPro cameras that belong to the Nazis themselves,” he says, explaining that the group does so because their goal is to “terrorize Israeli civilians.”
“By the way, that’s what terrorists do. Terrorize,” he explains.
Gilad Erdan also considers that “there are no words to describe the evil” that dominates the Middle East and affirms that “the reason why it cannot be described is because it has no place among the human species.”
At the end of the interventions, the Palestinian representative appealed to the United Nations General Assembly to approve the resolution, presented this Thursday by the Arab countries and which will be voted on Friday, stating that the world cannot limit the country’s actions. to defend.
“They kill us all. They kill thousands of our people and you say they are trying to minimize the number of civilian deaths. What would it be like if they were trying to maximize the death of Palestinian civilians?” he asked.
Source: TSF
