Unusually, the statements of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday regarding the motives of the Palestinian resistance

sounded "like a cacophony".. Amid a symphony of condemnations and support for the occupation entity, Israel, holding the maestro's baton, made sure to perfect its

musicians, while Guterres ' words brought most of the audience out of a state of total denial of the brutal aggression for more than 50 years of the rights of the Palestinian

people, but the Israeli Foreign Minister's shout with the phrase "This is not our world" seemed to bring everyone back to the desired tone.

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Edited  by |ANNA sam

 

Politic section -  CJ journalist

 

New York - October,24,2023

 

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the Resistance Movement's attack on Israel "did not come out of nowhere", and that "the Palestinian people have been

subjected to a suffocating occupation for 56 years, and they see their land constantly being eroded by settlements and violence. They have been displaced, their homes have

been destroyed, and their hopes for a political solution are fading,"he said.

"The complaints of the Palestinian people do not justify the horrific attacks carried out by the resistance," Guterres said, reiterating that he strongly condemns the horrific and

unprecedented events of the resistance in Israel, and nothing can justify the killing, wounding and kidnapping of civilians or the firing of rockets at civilian targets.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who was also present at the meeting, responded to Guterres: "in what world do you live?" Certainly, this is not our world".

In the world, where both Guterres and Cohen Live, Israeli strikes have been continuing for 18 days, over the heads of unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip, amid an applied

blockade, without water, electricity or food, while the occupation entity has violated the sanctity of mosques and churches, bombed hospitals, and even civilians who were

forced to flee their homes and responded forcibly, bombed them after they left, and the aggression resulted in more than 5795 martyrs, and more than 18 thousand

wounded.

Following Guterres ' speech, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen canceled a scheduled meeting with the UN secretary-general on Tuesday because of his statements criticizing

the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.

Cohen wrote in a post on his social media today: "I will not meet with the secretary-general of the United Nations . After the massacre of October 7, there is no place for a

balanced approach. "Resistance must be wiped off the face of the planet.

In another escalation in front of the UN secretary-general's speech, Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called on Guterres to "resign immediately", and Erdan wrote on

social media that Guterres is "not suitable to lead the UN".

Returning to Guterres ' speech, the UN secretary-general said that he is "deeply concerned about the obvious violations of international humanitarian law that we are

witnessing in Gaza," stressing that there is no way to favor a party to an armed conflict in international humanitarian law.

"Protecting civilians does not mean ordering the evacuation of more than a million people to the south, where there is no shelter, no food, no water, no medicine, no fuel, and

then continuing to bomb the south itself,"Guterres said.

"Let me be clear: no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law,"Guterres added.