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Jerusalem, Israel – On Monday, mostly anti-Israeli groups told the UN Security Council to punch Israel again just to protect it from Islamic Jihad in Palestine (PIJ), a terrorist movement backed by the Iranian regime. urged to do so.
In his remarks ahead of the session, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan singled out Norway and Ireland, which have frequently attacked the Jewish state, for their role in securing the emergency meeting.
“How will Norway react to Islamists planning to fire missiles at civilians in Oslo? How would Ireland react if they were going to?” he asked.
Israel has waged a three-day conflict with the US-designated foreign terrorist organization PIJ. “The Palestinian (Islamic) jihad deliberately fired 1,100 rockets at Israeli civilians, with about 200 landing inside the Gaza Strip, killing innocent Palestinians and young children,” Erdan said. I killed him,” he said.
The world’s worst sponsor of international terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, plays a key role in fomenting violence against Israel, Middle East experts say. “Islamic Jihad in Palestine is a radical terrorist organization armed, financed and trained by Iran,” Erdan said.
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China holds the Security Council presidency this month and supported an emergency meeting.
The Council’s session comes at a time of monumental crisis, when the United Nations seems almost paralyzed. The possibility of a nuclear disaster looms large in Ukraine after the shelling of a Russian-controlled nuclear facility.
Observers say the UN Security Council has been largely powerless in its efforts to stop the attritional war of attrition that has dragged on for more than six months between Russia and Ukraine, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and many more injuries. Russia faces war crimes allegations in Ukraine.
Referring to the US neutralization of al-Qaeda commander Ayman al-Zawahiri in late July, Erdan noted the double standards at work.
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“That’s why when al-Zawahiri was eliminated, not only this organization, but most of the world expressed full support. This is one step closer to eradicating radical terrorism from the world. But for Israel to prevent imminent attacks against our civilian population to neutralize such terrorists, UN officials shamelessly express deep concern. Not acceptable.
When the Security Council met with Tol Wensland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, he said, “Preliminary figures, as yet unconfirmed, indicate that from 5 August, the Israeli Defense Forces will continue to respond to Israeli targets. It shows that 147 airstrikes have been launched since then.” Palestinian militants fired about 1,110 rockets and mortars into Israel, many of which landed deep in Israeli territory. ”
He said, “During the escalation, 46 Palestinians were killed, 360 were injured, hundreds of housing units were damaged or destroyed, along with other civilian infrastructure. 70 Israelis were injured, Residential buildings and other civilian structures were damaged.”
The Israeli government has documented unexploded PIJ rockets killing Palestinian children and destroying infrastructure in Gaza.
Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, did not criticize the terrorist groups targeted by Israel in his remarks to the Council, calling the Israeli operation “a provocative and unjustified attack”.
Mansur attributed Israel’s preemptive military operation to stop PIJ missiles from entering Israel to “the forthcoming Israeli elections.” According to conspiracy theories circulating within far-left and radical Islamist circles, Israel is using the PIJ’s leadership as an election stunt to increase the election chances of Yair his Rapid prime minister in Israel’s November elections. excluded a person.
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The three European countries that called for talks, along with the UAE and China, appeared to turn a blind eye to the designation of the PIJ as a terrorist organization.
A French diplomat spoke about stopping the “spiral of violence” but avoided explicitly criticizing the PIJ as a terrorist movement.
The Norwegian representative accused Israel of “occupation” and “settlements” in his remarks. Norwegian officials did not cite PIJ. Irish diplomats called Israel an “occupying power”. It is unclear what the Irish diplomat meant by claiming Israel occupied the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not had a presence in Gaza since it withdrew from the Palestinian enclave in 2005. There are no Israeli soldiers or civilians in Gaza. However, Hamas said he is holding two Israelis hostage and will not release the bodies of his two other Israeli soldiers. Ireland’s representatives mirrored Norway and France by not naming the PIJ as a terrorist movement and its ideological nature.
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Contrary to the anti-Israel accusations by the three Europeans, the US Ambassador to the World Organization Linda Thomas Greenfield said, “Let me be clear: Islamic Jihad in Palestine is a threat to the United States and many other countries. It is a designated terrorist organization and an Iranian agent that has carried out attacks against innocent civilians for years.”
She appealed to her fractured body to “unite and unconditionally deny the terrorism of Islamic Jihad in Palestine.” Thomas-Greenfield stressed that he “fully supports Israel’s right to protect its people from terrorist threats, including rocket launches aimed at civilians.”