At the very moment in Gaza when Palestinians risked their lives to protest against Hamas oppression, at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva one country after another completely ignored Hamas and instead attacked Israel. Then Hillel Neuer takes the floor.
Full Speech Transcript:
Madam Chair,
Is this Council protecting victims on the ground, aim of the Vienna Declaration?
Let us consider Gaza. Because the contrast between what is being said here, and what is happening on the ground, has never been more stark.
Here, all day yesterday, delegates pointed the finger at Israel, accusing the world’s only Jewish state of every imaginable crime.
And yet, on the ground in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians marched, for a second day of mass protests against Hamas, a courageous display of public outrage against the ruling terror group.
In Gaza City, demonstrators carried banners reading “Hamas does not represent us.” In Beit Lahiya, 3,000 marched, chanting, “The people want the fall of Hamas!” In Shejaya, they chanted, “Out, out out! Hamas get out!”
Madam Chair, why are all these voices ignored?
Why is the UN and this Council refusing to show solidarity with Gazans, whose lives are being destroyed by a death cult called Hamas, who openly say how eager they are to sacrifice an endless amount of their own people in the name of a fascist, fanatical, Islamist and nihilistic ideology?
Madam Chair, why is it that when we look right now at the Twitter feed of this Council’s special rapporteur for Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, we see no mention at all of any of these Palestinians who right now are risking their lives to resist their oppressor?
Distinguished U.N. delegates, if you only cry out to blame Israel, but are silent when the people of Gaza are begging for the world’s help against Hamas, then you are not pro-human rights, you are only anti-Israel.
