‘Dark day:’ Israel slams UN resolution urging ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza
'Dark day for the UN and mankind': The conflict, ignited by a surprise weekend attack on October 7 by Hamas operatives on Israeli border areas completed more than three weeks now.
The deadliest escalation of the conflict in decades has witnessed a massive rocket barrage and a multi-front offensive by Hamas, resulting in reports of approximately 2,500 individuals, including militants, breached the border and carried out violent actions in southern Israel, resulting in the deaths of about 1,400 people, the majority of whom were civilians.
Amid the ongoing conflict, Israel slammed a United Nations resolution urging a "humanitarian truce" in Gaza and added that it is a "dark day for the UN and mankind."
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Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan in his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly Emergency Special Session on the Israel-Hamas war, said, "The truth holds zero importance in this body. Today, the majority of the community has shown that it prefers to support the defence of Nazi terrorists rather than support the law-abiding state of Israel to defend its civilians. Anyone who is truly interested in preventing violence shouldn't vote for resolutions protecting terrorists.
"Whoever truly wants to prevent more violence should be calling on Hamas to lay down their arms, turn themselves in, and return all hostages. If this were to happen, the war would end immediately. This is a dark day for the UN and for mankind."
Speaking about Israel's counter-offensive against Hamas, Erdan said, "Israel will continue to defend itself. We will defend our future, our very existence, by reading the words of Hamas's, evil, so that it can never threaten anyone else again. Israel will use every means at our disposal to accomplish this mission. Israel will do what must be done to eradicate Hamas's capabilities and bring the hostages home and we will bring them home."
He made the remarks as the United Nations General Assembly on Friday (local time) adopted a resolution calling for an "immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce" between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The resolution made no specific mention of the Hamas terror attacks of 7 October.
He stressed that Israel endured the "largest massacre of Jews" since the Holocaust." However, Israel has no right to defend itself as per the majority of the "so-called" family of nations. He said that the resolution adopted at the UNGA did not mention Hamas.
He asserted that Israel's goal is to eradicate Hamas's capabilities to prevent future atrocities. He further said, "We all know that if given the chance, Hamas and Hezbollah would commit the October 7 massacre again and again and again, until there is not a single Israeli left to murder or a single citizen to terrorize and drive away from Israel. And the only way to destroy Hamas is to root them out of their tunnels and their subterranean city of terror."
He accused Hamas of operating its main base in Gaza's Shifa Hospital and using people as human shields. He questioned the international community for not holding Hamas accountable. He said that the goal of the resolution is that Israel should not defend itself against Hamas.
- With inputs from agencies
