Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Gilad Erdanaccused Hamas of war crimes.
On Saturday, militants from the terrorist group stormed Israeli cities in an attack from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. They killed more than 700 people and escaped with dozens of hostages. It was the deadliest day for the country since the 1973 war.
In retaliation, Israel on Sunday bombed Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
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“These are war crimes, blatant documented war crimes,” Erdan told the UN, before a closed session of the Security Council.
“The time for reason with these savages is over,” he told reporters. “It is time to destroy and completely wipe out Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure,” he added.
Meanwhile, Erdan called on the international community to fully support Israel and condemn the actions of terrorism.
For his part, US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood explained this to the press There should be no “false equivalences” between the actions of Hamas and those of Israel.
Latin America
In Latin America the sayings of Chilean Foreign Minister Alberto Van Klaveren caused diplomatic tensions.
While condemning the terrorist attack, Foreign Minister Gabriel Boric posted on his X account: “The use of force against civilians is never acceptable in armed conflicts. even when exercising a legitimate defense. We call all parties to respect this basic principle in the event of acts of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories. “This applies to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the State of Israel and all other actors who intervene in the conflict.”
The answer didn’t take long to arrive. Through the same social network, Israeli Ambassador to Chile Gil Artzyeli expressed his outrage. “Israel has every right and every duty to defend itself! It is very unfortunate that Israel’s right to defend itself is being questioned while the attack that has cost us hundreds of Israelis in massacres, injuries and kidnappings continues. “It is unfortunate to mention Israel along with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, terrorist groups supported by the Iranian dictatorship,” he said.
Then Artzyeli went deeper in an interview. “In these hundreds of years we had not had the ability to defend ourselves. We now have the ability, the right and the duty to defend ourselves. “Never in the past or now do we want to harm or hurt innocent Palestinians, and most of them do,” he said.
“Hamas is not asking for negotiations,” he added, asserting that its goal is to “kill the maximum number of Jews” because “their goal is to eliminate Israel.”
It should be recalled that Gil Artzyeli took office amid controversy that led to a diplomatic crisis when President Gabriel Boric refused to accept his credentials in protest over the death of a young man in the West Bank.
In Argentina, left-wing candidate Myriam Bregman’s comments during the presidential debate sparked criticism in the Jewish community.
In the last few hours, the denial of the Israeli Embassy and the Simón Wiesenthal Center was supplemented by a video released by Rabbi Mario Rojzman, a Torah scholar who studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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While his opponents agreed in the debate to reject the crimes, Bregman said that he was hurt by “the civilian victims” and that it all happened “in a conflict based on the policies of the State of Israel, the occupation and the Apartheid against Israel” is based on the people “Palestinians”.
On his social networks, Rojzman listed some facts about Israeli society and accused the leader of “lies” and cruelty. “You are lying when you say that the State of Israel is an apartheid state, because you do not mention that there are Arabs in Parliament, that the majority of pharmacists and a third of doctors in Israel are Arabs, you do not mention that they are Arabs .” in all high positions in society,” he said..
“It is cruel to deny solidarity to Israelis when they were killed, stabbed or burned by Hamas terrorism,” the rabbi said.
According to the Foreign Ministry, at least seven Argentinians died in the Hamas attacks and another five are missing.