UN Accused of Supporting Hamas

On Sunday afternoon, 10th December, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy gave an update on the war with Hamas that included scathing criticism of various branches of the United Nations organisation, which is supposed to work for world peace.

Referring to video footage of missiles flying overhead as a civilian plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport, he noted that the 13 Security Council members who voted on Friday for an immediate ceasefire, which would leave Hamas free to target the Israeli people in that way, would never tolerate such a threat to their own people.

Describing another occasion In Beit Hanoun when Israeli forces came under fire from terrorists operating inside a mosque and an UNRWA school, he noted that nobody at the United Nations has condemned Hamas for fighting out of its schools. Nor has there been UN condemnation of the abuse of their aid supplies when Israelis have found weapons concealed in UNRWA bags.

Then, within the context of Hamas firing rockets at Israel from within the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, doubling down on its human shield strategy, he stated Israel’s demand that the United Nations firmly condemns Hamas’ exploitation of what is supposed to be a safe zone for civilians in Gaza; highlighting that until it does so, the UN is acting:

"in shameful dereliction of its duties, threatening international peace and
security through its complicity and through its silence."

Later in the update, Eylon Levy referred back to the UN Security Council meeting on Friday 8th December - a special meeting that was convened by the Secretary General using special powers under article 99 of the UN Charter. He said that the Israeli Government considers it:

"outrageous that the UN Secretary General has chosen to use his diplomatic power
to try to keep Hamas in power and shield it from the consequences of the massacre
that it perpetrated."

What has really angered the Israelis is the United Nations’ complete failure to condemn Hamas’ terror attack on 7th October. Nor are the Israelis alone in that. In abstaining during the vote at that Security Council meeting, the British representative said:

"We cannot vote in favour of a resolution which does not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed against innocent Israeli civilians on the 7th of October. Calling for a ceasefire ignores the fact that Hamas has committed acts of terror and is still holding civilians hostage."

And in using their veto on the resolution, the US representative said:

‘the US still could not understand why the resolution’s authors declined to include language condemning "Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack" on Israel of 7th October.
It killed people from a range of nationalities, subjecting many
to "obscene sexual violence."’

The Foundation for Defence of Democracies lists nine ways in which the United Nations organisations act in favour of Hamas, including: top officials making excuses for Hamas, the General Assembly refusing to condemn Hamas, not even considering Hamas to be a terrorist organisation, and equating Hamas’s slaughter with Israeli attempts at self-defence.

It is clear that the Israelis are not the only ones who are seriously concerned with what appears to be United Nations support for Hamas.