UN Security Council emergency meeting over Hamas chief killing begins
UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo is giving the opening remarks at the emergency meeting over the killing of Hamas chief in Tehran.
DiCarlo said a path to de-escalation is needed at this dangerous time. “The international community must work together to avoid any action that will make the conflict much bigger and wider very quickly,” she said.
“We need swift diplomatic efforts towards de-escalation [and] the Security Council plays a crucial role in this regard.”
UNSC is useless, can't implement their own resolutions anyway.
US calls on UNSC to stand with Israel
Robert Wood, US deputy ambassador to the UN, has taken the floor at the Security Council.
The US has again blamed Hezbollah for the rocket attack on a football field in Majdal Shams on Sunday, despite the Lebanese group having denied responsibility.
“We call on the Security Council to send an unambiguous message to Hezbollah by standing with Israel as it defends itself against Hezbollah’s repeated attacks,” Wood said.
He added that other Iranian-backed groups have been conducting “brazen attacks” that endanger regional peace. If Iran does not abide by UNSC resolutions, then the body must consider taking additional measures to “hold Iran accountable and address repeated action by its terrorist proxies”, he said.
Wood, who is addressing the UN Security Council on behalf of the US, says Washington was “not aware of or involved in the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh”.
“We have no independent confirmation as to Hamas’s claims regarding his death,” the US official said. “It is best not to speculate on the impact that these events will have. A broader war is neither imminent or inevitable.”
Wood urged the UNSC to pressure Iran to stop escalating its attacks on Israel through its proxies, as well as arming and financing “terrorist groups”.
Robert Wood has become an expert in gaslighting.
UK resolute in support to Israel and its ‘right to defend itself’
Barbara Woodward, UK ambassador to the UN, has told the UNSC that the UK is resolute in its support for Israel and its “right to defend itself in line with international humanitarian law”.
Woodward cited the drone strike by Yemen’s Houthi group on Tel Aviv earlier this month and the rocket attack on Majdal Shams on Sunday as evidence of Iran’s destabilising action.
“We have repeatedly been clear in this council of Iran’s role in destabilising the region through its use of proxies, including Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis. This must cease,” the UK ambassador said.
“The attempt of Iran and its proxies to use the war in Gaza as justification for further violence is perverse, and we reject it entirely.”
Another gaslighter. Fuck the US and UK. You created this mess and are perpetuating this mess.
What do you do when the biggest criminals have veto power? UNSC might as well be disbanded, useless.
Israel ‘must be stopped’, Palestinian official tells UNSC
Feda Abdelhady Nasser, the deputy permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, has told the Security Council that “Israel has been the oppressor, tormentor and murderer of Palestinians for decades, and it is the longstanding destabiliser of our region”.
“It must be stopped,” she said. “We call once again with utmost urgency on the Security Council, General Assembly and all law-abiding, peace-loving nations to act forthwith to bring a halt to the horrific, criminal Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people and on our region.”
Nasser demanded accountability for the killing of Haniyeh and for the “murder and injury of over 130,000 Palestinian children, women and men across these past 300 days of horror and hell in Gaza”.
“The international community has a choice to make – let it be for peace and security, do not let Israel drag us all to the abyss,” she added.
Haniyeh’s assassination shows Israel intends to expand the war to the entire region: Iran
The Iranian ambassador to the UN has addressed the UN Security Council. Here are the main points made by Amir Saeid Iravani during the emergency meeting:
- Haniyeh’s assassination is another manifestation of Israel’s decades-long pattern of terrorism and sabotage targeting Palestinians and their supporters.
- Israel was also pursuing the political goal of disrupting the first day of Iran’s new government.
- Iran condemns in the strongest possible terms this terrorist act and the most serious violation of international law and national security.
- This is a serious breach of peace and security that requires immediate action by the UN Security Council.
- It also suggests that Israel’s intention is to expand the war to the entire region.
Israel calls Iran ‘engine of death and destruction’ at UNSC
Israel’s representative, Jonathan Miller, has told the UN Security Council that its emergency meeting had been called for by the world’s greatest “sponsor of terrorism” Iran.
“Iran is not merely a sponsor of terrorism, it is the very machine driving the engine of death and destruction that threatens us all,” he said.
“We urge the international community to hold Tehran accountable for its crimes,” Miller added, citing the recent rocket attack on Majdal Shams as an example. The Iran-backed Hezbollah group has denied responsibility.
By contrast, Miller said Israel conducted a “precise strike against a Hezbollah commander, a senior terrorist with the blood of Israelis and many others on his hands”.
By contrast, Israel responded to an unintentional strike with a deliberate strike that killed 5 civilians and wounded 70+ more.
More deflection. It's become crystal clear it's Israel that is the engine of death and destruction, backed by the US, UK, Germany, Canada and the rest of the Western world.
Syria says Golan Heights attack ‘weaponised’ by Israel
Syria’s UN ambassador Koussay al-Dahhak has dismissed as “lies” claims that a rocket attack on Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan Heights, targeted Israel’s population.
“Syria reiterates that Syrian Arab Golan is and has always been Syrian Arab territory,” al-Dahhak said, adding that the Druze community that lives in the area has long rejected Israeli citizenship.
The attack was nonetheless “weaponised by Israel to continue its aggression on the states of the region”, he added.
Al-Dahhak also contested Israel’s claim that it is defending itself. “Syria reiterates that an occupying entity cannot claim that they are defending themselves,” he said.
