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The Hamas terrorist organization “drew inspiration from Hitler and the Nazis in attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli president told the United Nations.
The decision was driven by the agency’s “constant refusal to address the widespread infiltration of its ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”
“I demand the world remember what happened only 80 years ago,” she said.
“The history of the Holocaust is one of total moral collapse, dehumanization, complicity and unimaginable atrocities,” said the official who represented the United Nations at the event.
This year’s commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Outlawing the U.N. agency is “a direct response to the widespread infiltration of UNRWA’s ranks by Hamas,” Ambassador Danny Danon said.
Danny Danon, ambassador to the world body, says while holding up a photo of a baby boy during a meeting about children suffering in Gaza: “Perhaps you have forgotten about little Kfir Bibas, but I promise you we haven’t.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is slated to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Danny Danon told reporters in New York that the ceasefire and hostage release deal comes at a “very heavy price.”
The IDF could continue to carry out targeted strikes on the Shi’ite group’s entrenchment efforts.
The Israeli foreign minister also met with Janine Hennis-Plasschaert, the U.N. secretary-general’s special representative to Lebanon, to talk about that ceasefire.
The congresswoman fielded questions about Israel from nearly every member of the Senate panel in her confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
