The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, described this Friday as an “absurd decision” the vote in the General Assembly of the UN in favor of the full integration of Palestinewhich he considered “a prize for terrorists of Hamas“.
“The decision of improve the status of Palestinians at the UN is a reward for the Hamas terrorists after committing the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and perpetrate the most atrocious sexual crimes the world has ever seen,” said the minister, referring to what happened on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian Islamist group attacked Israeli territory and killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped around 200.
Katz considered that the measure “demonstrates the UN structural bias“, which, in his opinion, under the leadership of the secretary general, Antonio Guterres, “has become an irrelevant institution.” The minister considered that the message that the UN sends to the “suffering region” is that “violence is worth it.”
Voting
An overwhelming majority of 143 states, of the 193 members of the UN, once again asked this Friday in the General Assembly to reconsider the integration of Palestine as a full state, a decision that is the responsibility of the Security Council. Only nine countries voted against, and 25 abstained, in this resolution that was co-sponsored by Spain, Ireland, Norway and Belgium, along with more than seventy countries.
The resolution approved by the Assembly also grants Palestine new skills that exceed its current status as a “non-member observer state” and that define its participation in the General Assembly, but specifies that it will not have the right to vote nor will it be possible to present itself as a candidate for United Nations organizations.
The head of Israeli diplomacy considered that “the Palestinians do not meet the UN criteria to be a State,” and that the decision violates one’s own rules of UN procedure, since such a measure cannot fall on the General Assembly, according to Katz. “When it comes to anti-Israel measures, the UN allows itself to break the rules,” she stressed.
“He political theater The so-called UN has adopted an artificial decision, far from reality, that only encourages terrorism. Israel seeks peace, which will only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties,” the minister added, although Israel has been opposing reopening a peace process with the Palestinians for decades.
