“Stop the bombs and save lives!” the Palestinian ambassador pleaded at an emotional U.N. meeting Thursday on the war in Gaza. But Israel’s envoy was adamant, declaring again, “We will not rest until Hamas is obliterated.”
The war sparked by Gaza’s Hamas rulers’ surprise attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 played out in the vast hall of the 193-nation General Assembly, where Arab nations expected to adopt a resolution Friday calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza after the Security Council’s four failed attempts to agree on any action.
But the calls for a cease-fire, the protection of Palestinian civilians facing constant Israeli bombardments in Gaza and the delivery of desperately needed food, water, medicine and fuel were often passionate and intense from nearly a dozen countries that spoke Thursday. While the Hamas attacks killed some 1,400 Israelis, more than 7,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Iran is a key backer of Hamas and Qatar has already played a key role in the release of four Israeli civilians. “If you do not stop it for all those who were killed, stop it for all those whose lives we can still save,” he said.Mansour’s voice cracked when he spoke of a Palestinian girl killed before the birthday her father had planned and a man hugging the body of his dead mother and saying: “Come back, and I will take you wherever you want.”
In a sharp rebuke to the Israeli ambassador, he told the assembly, “I don’t have videos to show you. We respect the dead too much. We respect the pain of their families too much to show videos.”“Don’t let them tell you this is a war between Muslims and Jews,” he said. “We value life, Muslim life, Christian life, Jewish life.” He was interrupted with applause when he then said, “We care about all lives. … Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Iran's Amirabdollahian accused the United States of directly participating in the war and what he called a “genocide” against the Palestinians. “The genocide in Gaza must stop immediately,” he said.
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