After Hamas’s Murder of Six Hostages, Another Israel-Bashing UN Security Council Meeting
The United Nations Security Council met on September 4, 2024, ostensibly to discuss, at Israel’s request, Hamas’s cold-blooded execution of six hostages whom it had held captive since October 7th. But the meeting was quickly highjacked by Algeria, a member of the Council and the representative of the Arab group of states.
The meeting went downhill from there
Algeria requested a separate meeting to condemn Israel for the suffering that it has allegedly inflicted on the Palestinians residing in Gaza and the West Bank. The President of the Council for the month of September, Samuel Žbogar of Slovenia, decided to hold one combined meeting that turned into yet another Israel-bashing session.
The meeting started off fairly well with a briefing by Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, who noted the brutal murders of the hostages. But the Council’s attention quickly turned to condemning Israel when Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provided her briefing to the Council. Ms. Wosornu falsely alleged, with no substantiating proof, that Israel is responsible for the “torture & sexual violence of thousands of Palestinians taken into detention by Israeli forces.”
The meeting went downhill from there.
For example, Russia’s Deputy Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, whose country has the blood of countless innocent Ukrainian civilians on its hands, engaged in blood libel of his own against the Jewish state. “We note the very alarming reports of…the mass graves of dead Palestinians with traces of torture and the removal of internal organs,” he said.
Guyana’s representative to the UN said that “the situation in Palestine today did not begin on 7th October 2023. We must cast our minds back to 1948 because it was in that year that Israel first violently rejected the two-state solution.” This is a total lie. Read More
