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The Emiratis join Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana in installing their countries’ flags outside the council chamber, replacing Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
The U.N. force has called on Lebanese authorities to “investigate quickly and thoroughly, and prosecute all those responsible.”
The IDF and UNIFIL cooperate in returning the Israeli civilian from the Negev region who “apparently entered Lebanon voluntarily.”
“It has the appearance of being run by judges, like a court case. That’s the effect, and that’s why it can be so troubling for Israel in the eyes of the global public,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
The funding for the COI was approved on Dec. 23 by the UNGA with the support of 125 member nations, while the United States, Israel and six other nations voted against it, and 34—including some traditional allies of Israel—abstained from the vote.
While U.N. Special Coordinator for the Peace Process Tor Wennesland urged steps to prevent “another destructive and bloody round of violence,” Russia used the U.N. Security Council’s monthly meeting on the Situation in the Middle East to call for Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to reunite.
“We are not hearing any countries calling on the Arabs to desist, giving them the feeling that they have your support,” Israel Ganz tells 12 ambassadors visiting Israel as guests of Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
Ambassador Gilad Erdan wrote in an urgent letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday that both organizations have been designated by Israel as terrorist organizations for supporting to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The ambassadors toured Palmachim Air Force Base south of Tel Aviv, where they saw the Iron Dome and other missile defense systems.
“Education is the foundation of everything, and this goes hand in hand with the quality. In this era, you can’t talk about quality while excluding technology,” said Israeli Ambassador to Rwanda Ron Adam.
“I am convinced that the ambassadors will return to their countries and the United Nations with an understanding of the challenges facing the State of Israel, and our contributions and solutions to global problems,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
A United Nations office’s description of a recent terror victim as a “settler” raises difficult questions regarding the international body’s motives, says Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
