1,000 Days Into the War: Danny Danon at the U.N. — "No Terrorist Deserves a U.N. Badge or Cover Story"

Today (Thursday) marks 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023 terror attack. Israel is marking the longest war in its history, in which no fewer than 2,105 soldiers and civilians have been killed. The number includes those murdered and those who fell beginning on October 7, through the fighting in Gaza and against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in terror attacks, in attacks by the Houthis in Yemen, and through the missile barrages in the wars with Iran.

Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, spoke before the organization’s General Assembly and leveled harsh accusations at the U.N. and its institutions during a discussion on the "global strategy to fight terrorism." According to a report on Channel 7, Danon argued that the international community "turned a blind eye to the infiltration of terror organizations into the U.N.’s official aid agencies in the Gaza Strip — chief among them the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA.

In his speech, the Israeli ambassador stressed that "the findings exposed during the war, according to which UNRWA employees took an active part in the acts of massacre and kidnapping, are not a coincidence, but the result of years of ignoring Jerusalem’s warnings. For many years, Israel repeatedly warned, on every possible platform, about Hamas’s deep and systematic infiltration into the ranks of UNRWA. The evidence became so unequivocal that even UNRWA itself was forced to acknowledge this reality and dismiss dozens of its employees in the Gaza Strip over serious suspicions and direct ties to terror organizations".

Danon added: "One thousand days after the October 7 massacre, the world must listen to the victims of terror and to the country that fights terror day and night. No terrorist deserves a U.N. badge, a monthly U.N. salary, or a U.N. humanitarian cover story. If we truly want to defeat global terror, we must stand together as one front against it, and not grant it immunity under any excuse."