Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations strongly denounced a recent UN report that accuses Israel of committing acts of genocide and sexual violence in Gaza, calling it both “outrageous” and “antisemitic.”
“This is an antisemitic report against Israel. Blaming us after October 7th is not acceptable,” stated Ambassador Danny Danon.
He further criticized the UN’s handling of the issue, pointing out its silence on crimes committed against Israelis. “We know that the sexual crimes were conducted against Israelis during October 7th. The Human Rights Council is still silent about this,” he remarked. “When you speak about antisemitism in the UN bodies, you realize that it still exists, and today we received a very, very strong example of that.”
Danon urged the international community to take a stand against the report, stating, “I expect all nations around the world to condemn this report and to acknowledge that this is antisemitism.”
The UN document in question alleges that Israeli forces carried out acts of sexual violence against Gazans, including public humiliation and sexual assaults, as a means of retaliating against Palestinian Arabs for the October 7th Massacre. It also accuses Israel of multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations.
In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the report and the UN body behind it, saying, “The anti-Israel circus known as the UN ‘Human Rights Council’ has long been revealed as an antisemitic, rotten and irrelevant organization that supports terrorism. For good reason, Israel decided to quit it approximately one month ago.”
He criticized the UN for diverting attention away from Hamas’s atrocities, stating, “Instead of focusing on the crimes against humanity and the war crimes that were perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre carried out against the Jewish People since the Holocaust, the UN has again chosen to attack the State of Israel with false accusations, including baseless accusations of sexual violence.”
“This is not a human rights council; it is a blood rights council,” Netanyahu declared.
{Matzav.com Israel}
