The United Nations's response to the war between Israel and Hamas, which was ignited by the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, has been a “betrayal of its own mandate,” according to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.
“The United Nations is suffering from acute moral failure and can’t fulfill its core mission,” he wrote in a commentary piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
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Cohen argues that the U.N.’s response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel that killed roughly 1,200 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians, should have been “the strongest of condemnations,” but in actuality, the international body failed “even to address the crimes of Hamas and other Iranian terror proxies.”
"Israel’s enemies are deliberately violating all principles of the U.N. Charter, international humanitarian law, and basic human decency," he added. "They are committing a double war crime by hiding among — and firing from within — their own civilian population, while also targeting civilians in Israel."
Israeli and U.S. officials have said Hamas operates out of protected areas like hospitals. In particular, the Israelis raided the Shifa Hospital and found a tunnel underneath it. Israeli officials said it was a Hamas command post before Israeli forces overran it prior to the current cessation of hostilities.
He referenced the U.N. resolution passed earlier this month that failed to condemn Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, in addition to comments made by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israeli leaders previously rebuked in which he suggested during a U.N. Security Council meeting that “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”
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“The SG is blaming the victim. You are blaming Israel,” Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the United Nations at the time. “This is a pure blood libel. And I think that the secretary-general must resign ... unless he apologizes immediately today.”