A Palestinian Authority delegate to the United Nations recently accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, according to footage published on the delegation’s X account over the weekend.
“What do the thousands of October 7ths that the Palestinians have suffered in this past year, the largest attack on the Palestinian people since the onset of the Nakba, entitle us to do?” said the delegate.
“In what world, what deranged mindset, is massacring children, women and men considered self-defense? Protecting your people?” she added. “We repeat, there is no justification whatsoever for genocide. Not October 7th, not claims of antisemitism, not allegations of terrorism.”
The P.A. representative also denounced Jerusalem for maintaining what she described as the “longest foreign occupation in modern history. An illegal, inhumane, colonial, apartheid occupation.”
The footage, published by Ramallah’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations on Saturday, was undated.
Thousands of Palestinian terrorists launched a multi-pronged attack from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, that included the firing of thousands of rockets and the infiltration of the Jewish state by land, sea and air.
The terrorists butchered some 1,200 men, women and children. Some of the victims, primarily Israeli Jews, were decapitated while others were raped or burned alive.
The ratio of Hamas terrorists to Palestinian noncombatants killed during the Israel Defense Forces’ ongoing operation in Gaza is approximately one to one, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in May.
“What Israel has done is take the effort to minimize civilian casualties as no other army has done,” he said. “We use leaflets, we use millions of text messages, phone calls. We actually call the people, give up the benefit of surprise, tell them: ‘Get out of the way. Get out of the war zone so that we can accomplish our military objectives while you’re in a safe place.'”
That same month, the U.N. acknowledged it overcounted the number of children who had been confirmed killed in the war by a staggering 42%.
In March, the U.N. Children’s Fund stated that 13,450 children had been killed, citing figures from the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry. Two months later, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released updated casualty figures according to which 7,797 Gazan children had died as of April 30.
“The revisions are taken … you know, of course, in the fog of war, it’s difficult to come up with numbers,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, admitted to JNS in May.
Meanwhile, Hamas has privately admitted that 80% of the Palestinians killed during the year-long war in Gaza are members of the terrorist organization and their families, Israeli media reported last month.
Earlier this year, a statistics expert affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania said the Hamas claim that 70% of the casualties were women and children was “impossible” and “not reliable at all.”
