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SvennoJ 2 days ago
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Main events on January 27th

  • Gaza’s Government Media Office has said that more than 300,000 people have headed north since Monday morning as displaced Palestinians cross the once-closed Netzarim Corridor and return to their destroyed homes for the first time since the war began.
  • An official from Gaza’s Government Media Office has told Al Jazeera that at least 120,000 tents are needed to shelter those displaced people returning to the north.
  • A child has been killed and three others injured after Israeli forces attacked a horse cart in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, in the latest incident of displaced Palestinians being fired on as they return to their homes in the war-torn Strip.
  • An official from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has slammed Israel’s decision to halt its operations as “unacceptable”, in advance of a ban which is set to come into force on Thursday.
  • US Senator Bernie Sanders has denounced President Trump’s proposal to cleanse millions of Palestinians from Gaza, urging Americans to condemn it.


Israeli president calls UN morally bankrupt on Holocaust anniversary

Isaac Herzog has slammed the UN General Assembly, marking the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust, accusing the body of exhibiting “moral bankruptcy” and failing to confront anti-Semitism.

Addressing the forum during worldwide commemorations, he said: “Today, we find ourselves yet again at a dangerous crossroads in the history of this institution.”

“Rather than fulfilling its purpose and fighting courageously against a global epidemic of jihadists, murderers, and abhorrent terror, time and again this assembly has exhibited moral bankruptcy,” Herzog claimed.

Israel has repeatedly criticised the UN for its condemnation of Israel’s relentless 15-month offensive on Gaza following Hamas’s October 2023 attacks on Israel.

First of all, the UN was created after the holocaust to prevent war crimes from happening again. The institution did not exist yet at the time of the holocaust.

And it is indeed happening again, by Israel. The UN is trying to do its job to stop the genocide yet the US has turned the UN into a lame duck.

Israel is beyond morally bankrupt after 76 years of oppression, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.