Yesterday the Jewish people marked the end of Passover. Passover is the holiday in which we celebrate our first step to nationhood, the exodus from slavery in Egypt and the beginning of our ancestors’ journey to the land of Israel. The Jewish people set out for the promised land 3,500 years ago. On …
First and foremost, we want to thank Ms. Kaag, the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator, for her briefing and her important work on the ground. Since Ms. Kaag’s appointment to the role of Senior Humanitarian Coordinator following the adoption of resolution 2720 (2023), Israel has done …
I wish to begin by thanking the United States and, particularly, President Biden, for standing up for truth and morality in the face of hypocrisy and politics.
I sat here mere hours ago describing why draft resolution S/2024/312 is destructive. I explained how the Palestinian Authority does not mee…
How many times has the Security Council met to discuss ways to advance the release of our hostages held in Gaza? The answer is not even once. How many condemnations has the Council issued against Hamas or their heinous 7 October 2023 massacre? The answer is zero. Yet rather than condemning Hamas’s a…
From the very moment that the Arabs rejected General Assembly resolution 181 (II) in 1947 — the partition plan — and began their war to destroy Israel, the Palestinians have tried to exploit the United Nations for their goal to reverse history. Not only have the United Nations and its bodies faile…
Yesterday the Ayatollah regime, in blatant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, attacked the State of Israel and launched 170 unmanned aircraft, 120 ballistic missiles and 30 cruise missiles, carrying 60 tons of explosive materials, at Israel. The attack was launched…
For close to 18 years, the sanctions regime established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1718 (2006) has been a key element in the international community’s important challenge of halting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s quest for weapons of mass destruction and their means of deli…
Since well before the establishment of the United Nations or the State of Israel, the Palestinians’ goal has been clear — the annihilation of the Jews. Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism, worked hand in hand with Hitler to …
I wish to begin by expressing Israel’s sorrow over the tragic incident that claimed the lives of the World Central Kitchen employees in Gaza. We express our deepest condolences, and our hearts go out to the families, their countries and the World Central Kitchen. That was a tragic mistake. Israel ne…
At the outset, I want to express my deepest condolences to the Russian people and to the families of all the victims of the heinous terror attack on Friday. Terror must always be condemned in the harshest terms.
The Security Council was justifiably very quick to condemn Friday’s terror attack in Ru…
I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the United States of America. The United Nations was established in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities from happening again. I thank Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield for defending those values. Her determination to condemn
the Hamas …
I would like to thank the United States, France and the United Kingdom for heeding our call to summon the Council today and Japan for enabling this emergency meeting of the Council.
Today we are able to shine a light in the darkness of the families that have been harmed by the Hamas murderers who c…
Here we are once again, 150 days after Hamas committed the most brutal and barbaric massacre since the Holocaust. And once again, this body has convened not to condemn Hamas, no, not to condemn their atrocities, but to focus again only on the situation in Gaza. As if 7 October 2023 never happened, a…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s debate.
I am certain that there is not a single person in this Chamber that wishes to allow a child to go hungry. Not one of us desires any civilian to lack those basic
needs, and that is precisely Israel’s stance. While combating Hamas — a terr…
For the past two years, Israel has stood alongside the people of Ukraine in solidarity, both on the ground and here in the United Nations. That is the moral thing to do, especially as a country that knows exactly how it feels to be aggressively invaded, to have our towns and cities attacked and to h…
Since 7 October the Security Council has voted on numerous draft resolutions constructed around the same flawed theme — the concept of a ceasefire. The word is constantly mentioned in the Security Council and the General Assembly and by United Nations officials and agencies as if it were a silver b…
On 7 October 2023, an actual genocidal terrorist organization that openly and proudly declares its genocidal agenda perpetrated actual genocidal acts. That same organization continues to attack Israel, to hold hostages in brutal conditions and declares regularly its intention to repeat its atrocitie…
At the outset, I would like to thank France and to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your recent appointment. I wish you the best in your crucial position.
Today the Council has a historic opportunity to shift its focus to the real and grave security threat. The Middle East is suffering from a ca…
This is the second Security Council meeting this week on the situation in Gaza and the twenty-first meeting on the subject since 7 October. Over the same period, three General Assembly meetings were convened and two Security Council resolutions were adopted (resolutions 2720 (2024) and resolution 27…
More than three months have passed since Hamas committed the most widespread massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Ninety-six days have passed since Hamas butchered, incinerated, raped and exterminated 1,300 Israelis in cold blood and since it brutally took 240 Israelis hostage. And today — nearly 1…
