The United Nations General Assembly voted against a resolution that would have condemned violence against Israeli civilians by Hamas, according to Just the News.
The assembly instead passed a draft resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire without explicitly condemning Hamas.
Israeli Ambassador Gilad Menashe Erdan said the vote suggests the U.N. “no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance.”
“Why are you defending terrorists that deliberately beheaded children and abducted babies,” Erdan asked the assembly.
“We all know that if given the chance Hamas and Hezbollah would commit the October 7 massacre again and again and again until there is not a single Israeli left to murder or a single citizen to terrorize and drive away from Israel,” the Israeli ambassador added.
According to the U.N.’s press release, Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine, said, “We will focus on the unequivocal message this august Assembly has sent to our people that the overwhelming majority of the people of the world stand with you, stand with the people in the Gaza Strip.”
“They bear witness to your suffering,” Mansour stated. “They feel your pain. And they have not forgotten you and will not forsake you.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States’ representative in the U.N. noted that two words were missing from the draft resolution, Hamas and hostages.
“It is outrageous that this resolution fails to name the perpetrators of the 7 October terrorist attack,” she said. “These are omissions of evil.”
“One-sided resolutions […] will not help to advance peace,” Thomas-Greenfield asserted.
