55th session of Human Rights Council at the
United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland on February 26, 2024. The council went on to pass its 105th anti-Israel resolution
After the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted
a resolution on “Human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian
territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure
accountability and justice,” Israel’s envoy to the United Nations in
Geneva denounced what she said was that body’s 105th anti-Israel
resolution.
“This council spoke loud and clear: To the
overwhelming majority of its members, Israelis do not matter. The
murder of Jews does not matter. The hostages do not matter. The rape of
Israeli women does not matter,” Meirav Eilon Shahar told reporters on
Friday. “Where is the accountability for the Israeli victims of
Palestinian terrorism?”
“All that matters to this council and many
of its members is condemning Israel, singling out the only Jewish
state, and protecting Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and all those who
seek to destroy our country,” the ambassador added. “This resolution is
a stain on the Human Rights Council and on the United Nations as a
whole.”
The Israeli envoy announced that she would skip the rest of the session.
“I can no longer sit in the room of this
so-called Human Rights Council that can not even bring itself to mention
Hamas or its brutal terrorist attacks on Oct. 7,” she said. “It cannot
even condemn the brutal murder of over 1,200 of my people; the
kidnapping of over 240 individuals, including infants; the rape,
mutilations and sexual abuse of Israeli women, girls and men.”
“‘Me too unless you’re a Jew’ is the overwhelming message from the council today,” she said.
“This council has long abandoned reason.
It has long abandoned the human rights of Israelis and Jews,” she added.
“Today’s vote was one of the darkest days in the history of this
council, and the history of the U.N.”
In response to a question from a reporter, the ambassador noted that Israel appears 59 times in the resolution, while Hamas does not come up once.
The World Jewish Congress denounced “the
four one-sided, anti-Israel resolutions” that “are rampant with
inflammatory language and one-sided narratives,” which the Human Rights
Council adopted.
“The failure to acknowledge Hamas as the
perpetrator of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks is a moral stain on the
council and undermines Israel’s right to self-defense,” stated Leon
Saltiel, the congress’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
“The World Jewish Congress wishes to thank
Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, Malawi, Paraguay and the United States
for opposing this subversion of truth by voting ‘No’ on the resolution
filed under item 2,” Saltiel added. “The other three texts are adopted
under the council’s discredited agenda item 7, the only item against a
particular country, Israel.”
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