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Friday, September 12, 2025
Knocking UN resolution urging Hamas’s ouster, Israel notes it doesn’t even call Hamas a terror group
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael rejects the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voting to endorse a declaration outlining steps towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians without Hamas.
“Once again, it has been proven how much the General Assembly is a political circus detached from reality: in the dozens of clauses of the declaration endorsed by this resolution, there is not a single mention that Hamas is a terrorist organization,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein says in a post on X.
The resolution does, however, condemn Hamas’s October 7 attack, call on the group to release the hostages and outline steps for its removal from power in Gaza.
Israel utterly rejects the decision of the UN General Assembly this evening.
Once again, it has been proven how much the General Assembly is a political circus detached from reality: in the dozens of clauses of the declaration endorsed by this resolution, there is not a single… pic.twitter.com/UAT2VaAysi
— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) September 12, 2025
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