At the end of October 2023, the video allegedly shot at the UN - the Israeli diplomat demonstrates the stone and explains why his country is fighting with the Palestinians. We decided to check whether what is happening in the video is real.
The lasting for a little less than a minute show how the Israeli diplomat participates in the UN Security Council on the table and makes a speech. In viral posts it is stated that in this way he explains why Israel "kills women and children." “This is because of the stone. Every day they throw these stones at us. What would you do?" - Such a quote is given by authors of publications.
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The video really captures the constant representative of Israel at the UN Giladan, he occupies This position since the summer of 2020. However, in the video shot in the meetings of the UN Security Council, the diplomat wears a mask, and was separated by transparent screens from neighbors at the round table, although anti-icing restrictions in the headquarters of the organization in New York now Do not act.
Moreover, if you listen to the diplomat’s speech in English, there is no phrase in it, which is attributed to him in viral posts. Search requests for an accurate quote from Erdan’s speech did not give results. Search by the name of Israeli Permanent Representative to the UN and leads to individual words from his speech to the media sites, in particular The Jerusalem Post And The Times of Israel. However, this is not fresh news - all the references to Erdan with a stone dates back to January 2022.
The publication of The Jerusalem Post reports the details of the incident: speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, held on January 19, 2022 and dedicated to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Erdan said that this body pays little attention to the Palestinian violence against the Israelis.
“Stones can kill. A terrorist is not only a person with weapons. A terrorist is not only a person with a bomb. Such stones rush into the Israelis, into their cars and buses. They are thrown into Israeli men and women, in Israeli babies and adolescents. Every day. But the world does not mind. Will you count this with a terrorist attack if such a stone is thrown into your car when you are driving in it with your child? Could you at least condemn these cruel terrorist attacks committed by Palestinians against Israeli civilians? ”
On the UN official website there are complete transcripts All meetings of the Security Council. On January 19, 2022, indeed, a meeting was held to discuss the situation in the Middle East. In this document, both a quote from the video and the full speech of Erdan can be found.
“A year ago, I expressed the hope that discussions of the Council in the Middle East would become more balanced and reflect real threats to the world and stability in the region. However, today, unfortunately, I am forced to express this desire again. <...> The attacks with stones are not small, but those who throw in the Israelis in their cars and buses. Every day in Israeli men and women, stones are thrown in Israeli babies and children. Only in 2021, the Israelis were subjected to 1775 stone attacks from the Palestinian terrorists, but the world says nothing. Would members of the Council consider a terrorist attack if they were traveling with their children in their car, threw a stone? It was such an attack that claimed the life of a four -year Adele Biton and others. What would the representatives of the countries who are here do? Will they condemn at least those cruel terrorist attacks committed by Palestinians against the Israeli civilian population? ”
Israel would bomb Gaza sector in response to throwing stones in his citizens, the diplomat did not give his speech in his speech.
Thus, the video distributed in social networks is genuine, but has nothing to do with the attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, which followed the air strikes of the Israeli army and continuing shelling from the militants. Giladan Erdan showed a stone to the UN during his speech almost two years earlier and did not say anything that the throwing of such stones in the Palestinians in Israelis was an occasion for "killing thousands of women and children."
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