Israeli rights group roasts Tel Aviv at UN, hails Palestinians are 'heroes'
'A leading Israeli human rights group blasted Tel Aviv in a meeting of the UN Security Council for its “supremacy and oppression” of the Palestinians, whom it described as "heroes".
The group B’Tselem’s director Hagai El-Ad delivered a scathing speech against the regime after being invited to the podium by Bolivia, which holds the Council’s presidency this month, during a Council meeting.
“You will never silence us, nor the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who reject a present founded on supremacy and oppression and stand for a future built on equality, freedom, and human rights,” he said, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Associated Press reported.
El-Ad decried “the indignity, the outrage, the pain of the people denied human rights for more than 50 years,” referring to Palestinians’ mistreatment at the hands of Israel since 1948, when the regime proclaimed existence.
He said the regime was fragmenting Palestinian land, separating the Gaza Strip from Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank, walling off East Jerusalem al-Quds, which the Palestinians want as their future capital, while its courts were legalizing demolitions of Palestinian homes and the relocation of people.'
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