Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen says he has canceled a meeting he had planned with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. «I will not meet with the Secretary General of the United Nations – wrote Cohen on the social network X – After October 7th, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be erased from the world.” Cohen’s reference is to the terrible attack by Hamas in Israel. Guterres, opening the debate at the UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the crisis in the Middle East, said that that massacre occurred after ” Palestinians have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation” and then stressed that the Palestinians’ demands “cannot justify the terrible attacks by Hamas, just as these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Present at the Security Council debate, Cohen began by remembering the children kidnapped by Hamas. “As we speak here, there are babies, children, prisoners in Gaza. This is beyond imagination. It’s a nightmare,” he declared, then reading the names and ages of the abducted children, reports Haaretz. Cohen spoke of October 7th as a massacre “that will go down in history”, worse than those of ISIS. “Hamas are the new Nazis. The civilized world came together to defeat the Nazis, to defeat ISIS, and now it must join Israel to defeat Hamas.” Then he turned to Qatar, “which finances and hosts Hamas leaders, to work towards immediate and unconditional release of the hostages.” , tomorrow it will be on everyone’s doorstep.”
Source: IL Tempo
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