At the outset, I wish to congratulate the new members of the Security Council on beginning their terms.
The Houthis’ attacks on maritime trade are not merely an escalation, or are they a spillover. They did not happen magically by themselves. This reality is a glimpse into the dark future of the re…
I am honestly shocked to be sitting here today. I am shocked by the focus of this briefing. I am shocked by the blatant lies being spread. I am shocked at the utter dissonance from the reality on the ground. But most of all, I am shocked by the Security Council’s willingness to waste its time focusi…
Just a week ago, Jaish Al-Adl carried out a terror attack in Iran in which 11 Iranian police officers were killed. Within one day, the Security Council released a press statement (SC/15534) condemning the act of terror. It took the Security Council one day to express its condolences and sympathy wit…
I would like to commend you, Mr. President, and your delegation for this important and timely debate, and to thank the briefers for their briefings.
Regrettably, small arms and light weapons have been illicitly traded and proliferated throughout the Middle East in colossal quantities for decades. T…
Recently, the world has witnessed brutal wars and bloodshed. Nearly two years ago, peace was upended in Europe for the first time since the Second World War. Russia invaded Ukraine, and the entire globe has felt the impact. Food prices and energy prices surged, affecting countries everywhere. Supply…
Let me reiterate for those who did not hear correctly what I have just said. Israel did not bomb hospitals. The one who targeted and is using hospitals is Hamas. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad bombed Al Ahli Hospital, and that was just proven by evidence.
Let me say it again. Hamas is exploiting the…
I regret that once again some delegations in this Hall have chosen to exploit its platform to disseminate falsehoods and fake news. We refuse to see it used for such distortions but will
rather uphold the truth regarding the conflict in Gaza and Israel’s war on Hamas. Let me be clear — and it is no…
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations voted to adopt the partition plan and the establishment of the Jewish State. However, while Israel joyfully accepted that resolution, the Arab States rejected it and, instead, tried to annihilate Israel. Today, exactly 76 years later, history is repeating itse…
We are taking the floor today to address yet another one-sided, disproportionate and biased briefing, fuelled by a distorted and destructive political agenda. The deep hypocrisies and systematic bias that have been weaponized against Israel at the United Nations are based on a false narrative that n…
Is UN-Women not charged with ensuring that all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence? Does the banner of UN- Women’s website not currently say “#NoExcuses”? Has the world not come to believe women? Has not the United Nations?
To the United Nations and its agencies, Israeli wom…
The Security Council’s primary role is security. Yet, for close to 50 days, the Council has not advanced a solution related to its mandate. We have heard here politicized condemnations, baseless suggestions, distorted calls for calm and extensive
outcry over the humanitarian situation of only one s…
We have all been here before. Israel has made its stance very clear and therefore I will be brief.
The Council has just adopted a resolution that is, regrettably, detached from the reality on the ground
(resolution 2712 (2023)). Israel commends the Council for calling for the immediate and uncondi…
My delegation would like to exercise its right of reply with regard to comments made in the Hall in relation to the situation in Gaza. Out of consideration for your time, Sir, and that of the representatives in the Hall, I would like to refer to our comments made in a right of reply on a previous it…
With regard to the comments made in this Hall concerning the situation in Gaza, we would like to put the following on record.
The suffering in Gaza as a result of Hamas’s decision to declare war on us on 7 October is heartbreaking. None of us wants to be in this situation. This is not a war that Is…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your consideration in permitting me to address the Council earlier, in the light of the approaching Sabbath. It is deeply appreciated.
The holy Jewish Sabbath is a day of peace and rest. It is the day on which God rested following the cre…
I am compelled to take the floor regarding references concerning my country made earlier by the representatives of Iran and Syria.
Iran is in no moral position to lecture or preach about nuclear threats. Iran, in itself, is accountable for the mistrust in the Middle East arms control architecture a…
Today we mark one month since the horrific event and the massacre that took place in the southern part of Israel on 7 October, which claimed the lives of 1,400 Israelis, who were brutally and intentionally murdered by the genocidal jihadist terror organization Hamas.
According to Jewish tradition, …
We regret that, once again, the Palestinian representative has chosen to exploit this platform and exhaust its valuable time by sharing misleading information and inflating numbers, seemingly running out of valid legal arguments. We should all remember that there is no law without facts, and the fac…
Israel was an early advocate for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. However, Israel decided to abstain in the voting for the reason it expressed in previous years when it disassociated itself from the resolution.
As a democratic State based on the rule of law, and as the nation …
My grandfather Chaim was a farmer. He lived in a small village in Transylvania with his wife, Bracha, and their eight beautiful children. But in the spring of 1944, the small village ceased to exist. Their community was erased. The Nazis forced Chaim, Bracha and their eight children onto cattle cars…
