Gilad Erdan held up a sign depicting Yahya Sinwar's office phone number and asked UNGA members to call Sinwar if they truly care for a ceasefire.
Israel's
ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held a sign showing the phone number of Hamas
leader Yahya Sinwar’s Hamas office at a UN General Assembly meeting on Tuesday.
"You
want a real cease-fire?” Erdan declared, admonishing UNGA members to ask him
directly as he held up a sign depicting Sinwar's office phone number, since the
terrorist mastermind and Hamas bear the real responsibility for the current
conflict, not Israel.
בדיון הדחוף בעצרת הכללית הבהרתי לכל השגרירים לפני ההצבעה: אם אתם רוצים הפסקת אש אמיתית, תתקשרו למשרדי חמאס בעזה ותבקשו את יחיא סינוואר. תגידו לו שכאשר חמאס יניחו את נשקם, יסגירו את עצמם ויחזירו את כל החטופים, אז תהיה הפסקת אש אמיתית שתימשך לתמיד.צפו ורטווטו>> pic.twitter.com/1KDWtEm11R
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) December 12, 2023
“Call…
and ask for Yahya Sinwar. Tell Hamas to put down their arms, turn themselves
in, and return our hostages. This will bring a complete ceasefire that will
last forever,” Erdan said.
UN
resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire
The
United Nations General Assembly called for a Gaza ceasefire in a 153-10 vote,
with 23 countries abstaining hours after US President Joe Biden warned Israel
it was losing support for its campaign to oust Hamas.
The
resolution, the second of its kind since the war began on October 7, was
greeted with applause.
The
United States and Israel opposed the measure, as did Austria, the Czech
Republic, Guatemala, Liberia, Micronesia, Nauru, Papa New Guinea, and Paraguay.
The UN
Security Council had already met over the weekend at the request of the
organization's secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, to discuss the war in the
Gaza Strip. The vote on the resolution for a humanitarian ceasefire fell during
the same debate after the US vetoed the proposal. Some 97 UN member-states had
voted in favor of an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
***Tovah
Lazaroff contributed to this report.