United Nations
The outcome will provide a barometer of support for statehood recognition.
Gilad Erdan told the U.N. General Assembly that body’s anti-Israel animus is the reason U.S. “universities are permitting this Nazi-like behavior.”
A draft resolution asks that the General Assembly pass a resolution requesting the Security Council to reconsider “favorably” full membership for “Palestine.”
Stating that May 1 is a day to show solidarity “with all the oppressed,” the International Labour Organization said it will “be out on the streets demanding an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.
A candid interview with Israeli U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan about the challenges faced by the Jewish state in the international forum.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel”
Dennis Francis called the holiday a “season of rebirth and renewal, the triumph of hope and faith.”
It is unclear how that figure was tabulated; it would mean that some 28,000 children have been killed since Oct. 7—a number not even claimed by Hamas.
U.S. hopes to begin delivering aid using the new pier by early May.
Jonathan Miller, Israel’s U.N. deputy ambassador, said that aid trucks languish in Gaza after they’ve cleared Israeli security checks.
“Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins,” a ministry spokesman said.
The Islamic Republic’s U.N. ambassador is leading the effort.
