2023-10-25 08:36:00
In the Security Council, Guterres strongly condemned the attacks by Palestinian radicals on October 7, which claimed 1,400 lives, as “terrible”, but at the same time noted that they “did not happen in a vacuum”. “Palestinians have been subjected to a suffocating occupation for 56 years. They have seen their land continually taken by settlers and have been plagued by violence, their economies depressed, they have been displaced and their homes destroyed. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have vanished.” also stated
“Mr. Secretary General, what world do you live in?” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen asked in response to Guterres at the Security Council.
The ambassador of a Middle Eastern country then wrote to X that the Secretary General, who “shows sympathy for the campaign of mass murder of children, women and the elderly”, cannot lead the UN. “I call on him to resign immediately,” he said, adding that people who sympathize with Hamas’ atrocities are not worth talking to.
Already on Tuesday, according to the server of the newspaper Time, Minister Kohen put pressure on Israeli families whose relatives Hamas kidnapped them so they wouldn’t meet with Guterres. Some did, after all.
Former US President Barack Obama also appealed to Israel, which is mass-bombing the Gaza Strip, from which Hamas was attacking, in a statement on the Medium server, which he also harshly criticized the “threatening attack” by Hamas.
“Thousands of Palestinians have already died in the bombing of Gaza, including many children. Hundreds of thousands of people were driven from their homes. The Israeli government’s decision to cut off the captured civilian population from food, water and electricity threatens not only to worsen the growing humanitarian crisis, but could further harden the positions of the Palestinians for generations, weakening global support for Israel,” Obama believes.
Russia and China today vetoed a US proposal for a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement and for humanitarian aid to be allowed. Among other things, the American text emphasized Israel’s right to self-defense. A competing Russian proposal, which advocated a broader version of the ceasefire, also failed, Reuters and DPA reported today.
Minister of the Interior Vít Rakušan (STAN) also spoke about Israel in the House of Representatives today. Watch the video.
Giorgia Meloni condemned Hamas in parliament today. She also stated that we must not forget to separate the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
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