UNITED NATIONS: Israel's United Nations envoy showed the 193-member General Assembly a brief video on Thursday (Oct 26) that he said showed a Hamas fighter trying to decapitate a man with a garden tool during the
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan holds a paper with a QR code as he speaks to the United Nations General Assembly on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas at UN headquarters in New York City, Oct 26, 2023.
"One can see a terribly injured civilian – bloodied, yet alive – laying on the ground as a Hamas savage screaming Allahu Akbar repeatedly pummels the man's neck with a garden hoe in order to decapitate him," Erdan told the assembly. It is due to vote on Friday on a resolution drafted by Arab states that calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for the attack that killed 1,400 people. Israel has struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege on the enclave of 2.3 million people and is preparing a ground invasion. Palestinian authorities say more than 7,000 have been killed.
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