Despite the initial hopes that this meeting would remain professional and focused on the important questions and challenges that we face, we are unfortunately compelled to react following ludicrous statements made this morning. We will be brief.
As we all know very well, the Middle East has always …
The renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) this year by the Security Council is not an ordinary renewal. It takes place under extraordinary circumstances. After the watershed event of 7 October 2023, on 8 October 2023, Hizbullah launched an
unprovoked attack …
I am quite familiar with the prestigious halls and corridors of this building. This is my second term as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations. During my first term, I worked towards promoting the integration of Israel into the international community. I experienced the significance of meaningfu…
My delegation recognizes the significance of resolution 78/323 and did not want to impede the process. Having said that, since some countries chose to introduce an oral amendment at the last minute that had not been agreed upon, and did so in a non-constructive manner, Israel called for a recorded v…
I am sure that many Council members were not aware — or did not care to check — but today is Tisha B’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, our ancient day of mourning. We are fasting today for the many tragedies in Jewish history that occurred on this day, including the destruction of our fir…
We must first stress the rank hypocrisy on display here today. This meeting was called for by the world’s number-one sponsor of terrorism, responsible for the most horrifying barbarism across the region and the globe, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has used its proxies — Hamas, the Houthis and H…
What an absurdity to again be called to the Security Council to again discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, especially when the Council has failed to hold one single meeting on the real reasons behind this terrible war, behind the horrific attack on 7 October 2023.
The Council should be discu…
Allow me first to thank the United States, Britain and France for convening this special meeting, as well as our briefers here today.
Since the beginning of the current war in Gaza, Israel has had to fight to defend itself, not only on one front but on seven fronts. Attacks on Israel have been laun…
Tomorrow will mark 30 years, to the day, since a joint Iran and Hizbullah terrorist operation attacked a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, murdering 85 people and injuring hundreds of others. This should be a stark reminder of two things.
First, it should remind us that Iran has been obsesse…
The process of approving the budget of peacekeeping operations should not be done based on an unjustified biased approach against Israel, year after year. That biased approach has no place in the Fifth Committee and certainly does not make its work here more responsible and credible. Israel’s positi…
Just this past week, the international community and the United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. While the world advocated for the eradication of sexual violence
as a weapon of war and terror, that is the reality of 16 Israeli women who …
From the very first days following Hamas’s invasion and brutal massacre on 7 October 2023, Israel’s goals have been very clear: to bring all our hostages back home and to dismantle Hamas’s capabilities. Israel is committed to those goals — to free all the hostages, to destroy Hamas’s military and go…
Israel welcomes the steps taken by the Government of Georgia to support internally displaced persons, including through the provision of housing and other assistance, as laid down in the successive action plans for the implementation of the State strategy on internally displaced persons, as highligh…
The Council has convened, for the umpteenth time, to discuss the just and moral war that Israel is fighting against the bloodthirsty, genocidal terror organization of Hamas. Yet again, as has been the case for nearly eight months, the Council still refrains from convening to discuss Hamas and from l…
This morning, in an act of outrageous absurdity and moral bankruptcy, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that he will seek arrest warrants for Israeli leaders and Hamas leaders. This is a despicable and unforgettable day on which an immoral equivalence is being …
Paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 52/250, of 7 July 1998, entitled “Participation of Palestine in the work of the United Nations”, determined that the Palestinians have the right to co-sponsor draft resolutions and decisions on Palestinian and Middle East issues. The subject matter of draft res…
The discussion being conducted here today provides Israel with the opportunity to express its support for Security Council draft resolution S/2024/302, on weapons of mass destruction in outer space, initiated by the United States and Japan (see S/PV.9616).
The abiding and common interest of all hum…
Israel would like to thank the facilitators, the World Health Organization and the core group on global health and foreign policy for their work. We have comments on several elements in the text of the resolution (resolution 78/280).
Concerning the twenty-ninth preambular paragraph, we disassociate…
Today we are here to discuss the culture of peace — what a grand phrase. The resolution that has been adopted (resolution 78/277) talks about preventing violent extremism and recalls resolutions on terrorism. It recognizes a number of big words, referring to “the prevention of conflicts”, “the peac…
Paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 52/250, of 2 July 1998, entitled “Question of Palestine”, determined that Palestine has the right to co-sponsor draft resolutions and decisions on Palestinian and Middle East issues. The subject matter of draft resolution A/78/L.57 clearly does not fall within …
