Prime Minister Yair Lapid slammed a United Nations report accusing Israel of violating international law, as part of an ongoing inquiry into alleged rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank Judea & Samaria and the Gaza Strip following last year’s 11-day fight between Israel that was started with a barrage of rockets by the Hamas terror group. The report does not even mention the words “Hamas,” “rockets,” or “terrorism.”
Times of Israel “Precisely because I was not prime minister at the time of Operation ‘Guardian of the Walls,’ I feel obliged to emphasize: The UN report on the operation is biased, false, inciting and blatantly unbalanced,” Lapid said on Twitter, referencing the 2021 conflict. “Not all criticism of Israel is antisemitism, but this report was written by virulent antisemites including Navi Pillay and is a distinctly antisemitic report,” he added.
Hamas’ armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigade, along with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, launched 4,300 rockets in the war out of an estimated arsenal of 14,000. The barraged killed 10 civilians in Israel, including a child and teenager, and injured 330 others.
Hamas maintained barrages of 300 to 450 rockets daily despite the IDF’s counter-bombardment—50% to 100% higher than the volume of fire in the preceding 2014 war. Furthermore, nearly twice as many rockets were lobbed at more distant cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (roughly one out of six), implying Hamas increased the proportion of long-range rockets.
The United Nations’ ongoing Commission of Inquiry released its second report on Thursday, calling on the Security Council to end Israel’s “permanent occupation” of historically Jewish lands and on individual UN member states to prosecute Israeli officials.
The 28-page document, which will be presented to the General Assembly on October 27, accuses Israel of violating international law by making its control over Jewish land in the West Bank Judea & Samaria permanent, and by annexing land illegally claimed by the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and Syrian land won by Israel after Syria attacked it, in the Golan Heights.
It also wrongly accused Israel of discriminatory policies against Arab citizens, of stealing natural resources and of gender-based violence against Palestinian women.
The commission cited “reasonable grounds” to conclude that Israel’s presence in the West Bank Judea & Samaria “is now unlawful under international law due to its permanence” as well as the Israeli government’s “de facto annexation policies.” (It is JEWISH land and has been for centuries)
“By ignoring international law in establishing or facilitating the establishment of settlements, and directly or indirectly transferring Israeli civilians into these settlements on Jewish land, successive Israeli governments have set facts on the ground to ensure permanent Israeli control in the West Bank, Judea & Samaria” said Navi Pillay, a virulently anti-Semitic former UN human rights chief who chairs the commission.
Israel’s mission to Geneva rejected the report, saying: “Commissioners who made antisemitic comments and who proactively engaged in anti-Israel activism, both before and after their appointment, have no legitimacy nor credibility in addressing the issue at hand.”
Pillay heads the open-ended inquiry and is joined by Miloon Kothari of India, the first UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, and Australian international human rights law expert Chris Sidoti. Sidoti had previously dismissed accusations of antisemitism against the commission and said these were being “thrown around like rice at a wedding.”
Kothari caused an uproar after he was quoted on a podcast this summer speaking out against the “Jewish lobby” and questioning Israel’s inclusion in the UN, sparking Israeli accusations of antisemitism and calls for his resignation. Pillay defended Kothari and said his comments had been deliberately contextualized. Kothari has since apologized.
Below video is in English:
Linda Rivera says
The UN are LIARS.
The UN is a Jew-hater, Israel-Hater, Christian-Hater, Jesus Christ-Hater, ANTI-HUMAN, SATANIST Organization.
The Satanist UN is possessed with an All-Consuming HATE for the Just Judge, the Righteous HOLY ONE, the ONE TRUE GOD, our Precious, Wonderful, Glorious, Awesome Creator, Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good who dwells in unapproachable light.
Jewish Prayer/Praise
Hallowed and honoured, extolled and exalted, adored and acclaimed be the Name of the blessed Holy One, whose glory is above all the praises, hymns and songs of adoration which human beings can utter.
Jul 17, 2014 British commander Col. Richard Kemp: “The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare…”
British Colonel: “IDF is most moral army in the history of warfare”
Victor says
The Arabs living in Judea and Samaria were offered between 90 and 97 percent of it by three successive Israeli Prime Ministers. Had the Arabs taken that deal, I am sure that the Jewish people living there would have been forcibly removed from Judea and Samaria, sadly, by none other than the Israeli government itself had they refused to leave! (Thank Heaven that did not happen, at least not yet) …the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians don’t want peace at all; even their fellow Arabs realize this and are just sick and tired of them. I think that a majority of the Arab world, especially the Gulf States, just want a secure and prosperous future with a reliable partner like Israel. As Iran starts to become a bigger and bigger threat, these 56 predominantly Sunni Muslim countries are bound to have a “change of heart”! LOL 😉 if Israel’s survival weren’t at stake, it would be so wonderful if Israel could just sit back and watch Iran devour and enslave her Arab adversaries… now that would be sweet, poetic justice for years of Israel bashing by those vicious, spineless, cowards at the Useless Nations!
FaithfulServantsOfChristKJV says
I’d imagine that the UN would also have blamed the Israelites for the destruction of the Egyptian army in Exodus 14:21-31.
(Even though Pharaoh had already agreed to let them go, but then walked back on that and came after them. And even many of the Egyptian soldiers wanted to turn back since they had been convinced that Jehovah was fighting for Israelites against Egypt, but Pharaoh kept going after them, which means that Pharaoh brought it on himself… but if the UN was around, they would have blamed the Israelites for all that).
Az gal says
Who controls the UN? OPEC.
BareNakedIslam says
No, OIC.
Siddi Nasrani says
The UN is a sick joke, so you just have to sit back & watch the rockets
attack your country & do nothing!
Part of the Hamas Charter.
In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah
“Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with Allah, and a treaty with men; and they draw on themselves indignation from Allah, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed.” (Al-Imran – verses 109111).
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan alBanna, of blessed memory).
Tim h says
I think this a bit one sided don’t you. I think the U N don’t like them Jewish people 🤔
BareNakedIslam says
Ya think??? That’s what happens when you have 56 Muslim countries voting as a bloc and 50 others thinking one tiny Jewish state is a threat to world peace. 😡