'The real discussion at the Security Council should be about the ongoing failure to implement Resolution 1701 and Lebanon's transformation into an Iranian terror outpost,' Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said.
Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky testified to the UN Security Council about extreme mistreatment by Hamas and advocated for the release of all of the captives.
Over the weekend, the terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released difficult-to-watch videos of Israeli captives Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, who appeared to be starving to death.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres came under fire Tuesday after said said at a UN Security Council meeting that the Hamas invasion of southwestern Israel and the massacre of 1,400 Israelis “did not happen in a vacuum.”
“Tensions along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon are higher than they have been in years," warns Ambassador Gilad Erdan in letter to UN Security Council and Secretary-General.
"The demand of returning millions of descendants of refugees is a demand to obliterate the Jewish people’s right to self- determination, and this will never happen.”
'I admire the heroes… for eliminating the terrorists in Nablus. Whoever harms Israel, we will reach them wherever they are and strike them with a crushing blow, without compromise.'
'Israel, for its part, reserves for itself full freedom of action, diplomatic and operational, in the fight against the Iranian nuclear program,' announced the Israeli Prime Minister.
Israel demands that the international community 'condemn and disarm Hamas, and ensure Gaza’s rehabilitation while preventing the diversion of funds and weapons to terrorism.'
'How dare you lie about the brave soldiers of the IDF? They risk their lives to contain the outbreak for both Israelis and Palestinians,' said Danny Danon.
'Can you imagine how our children feel when they know that terrorists could come bursting through a tunnel under our community at any time?' said Adele Raemer.
Israel's ambassador Danny Danon called on the ambassadors to join the initiative at the U.N. Security Council to declare Hamas a terrorist organization.
Terror groups are to blame for the suffering of the residents of the Gaza Strip, Jason Greenblatt said, adding that UNRWA has failed the Palestinian people.
Prior to a UN Security Council debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a moment of silence was held in memory of synagogue shooting victim Lori Kaye.
The UNSC is scheduled to vote on another anti-Israel resolution. Will the Obama administration vote against the resolution, as is the US' traditional policy?
There is a growing fear that despite US public opinion, Obama’s obsession to distance the US diplomatically from Israel could lead him to forgo employing the US veto in the Security Council, or worse, endorse a resolution which could pave the way for global sanctions against Israel.
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said that the Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem constitutes an impediment to peace.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN demanded the removal of Hezbollah terrorists from southern Lebanon, noting the growing number of missiles in their possession and their placement near schools and homes.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon praised the UN Security Council's decision last week to renew the mandate to deploy the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights region until the end of the year.