As we meet here today, young babies and children are being held in Gaza. This is beyond imagination. It is a living nightmare: Ofri, 10 years old; Avigail, 3 years old; Maya, 17 years old; Raz, 4 years old; Aviv, 2 years old; Ariel, 4 years old; little Kfir, only 9 months; Yuval, 8 years old; and Of…
The situation in the region today did not develop overnight. It is the consequence of many choices — repeatedly the wrong choices — made by the Palestinians, to adopt terrorism and violence over peace and negotiations with Israel.
In contrast, Israel has shown that it understands the consequences o…
Israel joined the consensus on draft resolution A/62/L.36, entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people”. Israel has long supported humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, although, in the past, owing to realities on the ground, my delegation was compelled to abstain in the voting on dr…
In past years, and for many years now, Israel has voted in favour of draft resolutions like draft resolution A/61/L.47. Israel supports the principle of assistance to the Palestinian people and implements it on the ground. What Israel cannot support is this year’s General Assembly
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Israel has maintained longstanding support for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, and we are pleased to join the consensus on this resolution. We worked closely with the European Union, the United States and the Palestinians in order to be able to support this resolution and we are v…
Israel voted in favour of the draft resolution as a demonstration of its continued support for humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people. In exceedingly difficult security conditions, Israel continues to do all that it can to help the
Palestinian people meet their humanitarian needs. While …
Allow me to express my disappointment over the decision of the General Committee to recommend that the Assembly split its consideration of agenda item 36, on the situation in the Middle East, and item 37 on the question of Palestine, which had been scheduled, according to a previous decision, to be …
Israel was pleased to join the sponsors of draft resolution A/49/L.25/Rev.1. We are confident that the General Assembly will adopt it by consensus.
We have consistently expressed our readiness to cooperate with Nicaragua in the many areas related to its rehabilitation and reconstruction. We are gla…
