Israeli Arab Ali Ziadna, who has family members held hostage in Gaza, confronted Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Monday after the UNSC debate on sexual violence committed by Hamas, and criticized him for allowing his family members and other fellow Muslims to wallow in Hamas captivity, according to a video posted on X.
עימות יוצא דופן אחרי הדיון במועצת הביטחון בין עלי א-זיאדנה, ששניים מבני משפחתו חטופים בעזה והתלווה לשר החוץ כ”ץ לבין שגריר הרשות הפלסטינית באו”ם, ריאד מנסור. א-זיאדנה הטיח בדיפלומט הפלסטיני אחרי נאומו: “…למה חטפו את אחיי? במה הם חטאו שחטפו אותם? הם מזה 5 חודשים במנהרות על מה?… pic.twitter.com/K3oORXdaxC
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Ziadna was part of a delegation of family members of hostages in Gaza, that accompanied Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan to a UNSC debate over the recently submitted UN report on sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7.
The debate was held in the UN building in Manhattan, which can be seen in the background of the video.
The dialogue between the two is in Arabic, however, multiple accounts on X have posted the video with roughly similar translations of what was being said.
Ziadna told Mansour, “Why did they kidnap my family? What crime did they commit that Hamas kidnapped them? They have been in the tunnels for 5 months, and for what? On what basis? They returned the Thai workers without a deal and the Muslims who are like me and you are left in the tunnels hungry, in pain, and naked…”.
The Palestinian ambassador replied to him: “Remember your Muslim brothers and sisters who died in Gaza, 30 thousand… and 75 thousand (wounded) and the destruction in Gaza. We are against harming any citizen, think of the civilians who have been harmed, and show solidarity with them. Don’t let [Israel] take advantage of you, those who kill the Palestinians will take advantage of you.”
Foreign Minister Katz tells UN to do more about Hamas
At the debate itself, Katz slammed the organization for not doing enough against Hamas and demanded that they Designate Hamas as a terror organization and do more to pressure it to release the remaining 134 hostages.
“For too long the UN has been silent on Hamas actions,” Katz said. “UN never condemned nor disapproved these Hamas brutal crimes.”
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