The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN Security Council made a long reconstruction of the events from his point of view, starting October 7, 2023: «Our enemies do not want to destroy only us, but our entire civilization». Following this statement, some delegations left the chamber.
“We must defend ourselves against these savage murders, our enemy does not want to destroy only us Israelis but also our civilization and bring us into the dark area of their dictatorship,” Netanyahu added to the UN Security Council. While he was speaking, the families of the Israeli hostages kidnapped on 7 October were also present in the chamber, of whom the Prime Minister made a list, listing the atrocities committed by Hamas on the cursed day of October 7.
The Israeli prime minister added to the UN plenary in New York: «The war in Gaza can end today: Hamas must surrender, lower its weapons and free the hostages. If he doesn’t, we will continue until total victory. Hamas must go, if it remains in power it will continue to attack the Jewish state. Today I see no role for Hamas in a post-war Gaza.” For this reason, Israel “will do everything in its power to ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech to the UN General Assembly.calling on the Security Council to re-impose sanctions on Tehran to ensure this objective. “Israel will continue to strike Hezbollah until all objectives are achieved and isolating Israel continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations.”
Meanwhile today, Friday 27 September, Israel conducted dozens of air raids in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which launched rockets towards Israeli territory, after the failure of an international call for a ceasefire, promoted by the United States.
Since September 23, the massive bombings conducted by Israel against the Lebanese group, allied with Hamas and supported by Iran, have caused, according to the authorities, more than seven hundred deaths in Lebanon, many of them civilians.
Faced with an escalation that threatens to drag the Middle East into a regional war, on September 25 the United States, together with other Western, European and Arab countries, had launched an appeal for a twenty-one day ceasefire, which is However, it was rejected on 26 September by Israel.
Lebanon, after Israel’s attacks
Yesterday Abu Mazen, president of Palestine since 2005 and president of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority, was greeted with long applause before he delivered his speech at the 79th UN General Assembly. «We won’t leave, we won’t leave. Palestine is our land, we will not leave. If anyone will leave it will be those who occupy it,” he said, accusing Israel of genocide and calling for it to stop.
The Palestinian president then made an appeal to the world: «Stop the genocide, stop sending weapons to Israel. The whole world is responsible for what happens to our people in Gaza.” And he added: «I regret that the US administration, the largest democracy in the world, has thrice thwarted, by vetoing, the UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And beyond that he sends deadly weapons to Israel to kill our people. I don’t understand why the United States continues to deprive us of our legitimate rights,” he continued, underlining that Israel “does not deserve” to be a member of the UN.
Abu Mazen then set out several requests for his people. Starting from «an immediate ceasefire, the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, where they have nothing, the complete withdrawal of Israel. We don’t want to fight Israel, but we want our people, our families to be protected. The Palestinian state must impose its complete authority over Gaza and the West Bank. We don’t ask for more, but we don’t want less.” Then, he concluded: «What are we missing to be the 194th member country of the UN? We have the land, we have the people, we have the culture, we lack nothing. We want security for both countries.”
