One of the freed Israeli hostages has stood before the UN’s General Assembly this week to deliver a rebuke to the organization, and to demand that the remaining hostages, estimated at 101, be freed.

In videos posted to X by Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mia Schem criticized what Danon referred to as “the moral failure of the UN … since that Black Sabbath on October 7th.”

“It has been over a year and the UN has not lifted a finger to free the hostages,” Schem said. “You sit here in your comfortable chairs debating the lives of my friends as if they are a political issue and not innocent people being tortured by terrorists. I ask you, why do we (even have) a United Nations if it won’t stand for us in the darkest of moments?”