Watch: Israeli Ambassador shreds UN charter after angry speech on Palestinian membership

With a shredder in his hands, Israeli Amabassador Gilad Erdan looked visibly unhappy during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Moments later, after a fiery speech on the Assembly backing Palestine and granting full membership, he shredded the UN Charter.

The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of a Palestinian bid to become a full member from its previous observer status, with a majority of 143 out of 193 votes including India. While 9 nations, including USA and Israel voted against the resolution, 25 nations abstained altogether.

The resolution recognises Palestine’s qualification to join the UN instead of fiving it full membership.

Erdan called the resolution “a clear violation” of the UN charter, claiming it to have gone against the US veto last month. “You have opened up the United Nations to modern day Nazis, to genocidal jihadists committed to establishing an Islamic State across Israel and the region murdering every Jewish man woman and child.”

Watch my speech against the despicable decision to give rights of a state to the terror supporting Palestinian Authority. I shredded the “UN Charter” to illustrate what the General Assembly is doing by subverting the Security Council and supporting the entry of a terror entity.

— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) May 10, 2024

“An unforgivable act the destruction of the United Nations Charter, the document which serves as the foundation of everything we are supposed to do here is being trampled upon, you are circumventing the Security Council, ignoring its decision and violating in the norms this organization has abided by,” declared the Israeli envoy.

He went on to say that he wants the entire world to remember this moment and to remember “this immoral act”, as he holds up a mirror for them. While accusing them of shredding the U.N charter, he ripped apart a copy of it while on stage.

This vote comes as a concrete move to effectively recognise a Palestinian state, especially after the US vetoed a UN Security council resolution on granting statehood to Palestine.

Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour delivered an emotional speech at the UN Security Council, making the president of the UN Security Council and other members move to tears. pic.twitter.com/M7yr7RFdh3

— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) April 19, 2024

“The Palestinian are a people who aspire freedom to a dignified life, to a peaceful existence.” Palestine’s UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour stated before the vote. “The people of Palestine will not disappear, the people of Palestine will not be buried,” he addressed tearfully.

The push for UN membership comes at the back of the Israel-Hamas war stretching across the Gaza strip and West Bank over the course of the last seven months as U.N considers Israel’s occupation of West Bank illegal.

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