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Sunday, April 27, 2025
Meeting UN envoys from around the world, PM urges support for Israel’s ‘just struggle’
Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with a delegation of dozens of United Nations ambassadors led by Israel’s envoy to the UN Danny Danon.
“I thank the countries that support us in our just struggle,” the premier tells the delegation, who arrived at the meeting after visiting several locations in southern Israel where the Hamas terror group attacked on October 7, 2023, including Kibbutz Kfar Aza, the Nova music festival site, and the city of Sderot, according to Danon’s office.
The ambassadors “heard an extensive briefing from the prime minister about Israel’s just struggle in the international arena, the conduct of the war in Gaza, and the efforts to secure the hostages’ release, and the fight against antisemitism,” says a readout from the the Prime Minister’s Office.
Netanyahu “answered the ambassadors’ questions, welcomed the members of the delegation to Israel, and called on them to convey to their governments and to the public in their countries the truth and justice about Israel,” according to the PMO.
Danon calls the visit of the envoys “another stage in the battle for global consciousness. We will continue to expose Hamas’s crimes on every platform and will not rest until all the hostages are brought home.”
Czech Ambassador to the UN Jakub Kulhanek writes on X that it was “heart-wrenching to revisit the sites of Hamas’s 7 October terror rampage.” He adds that there is “no justification for such heinous atrocities. I reiterate [the Czech Republic’s] call for the immediate release of all hostages.”
Before arriving in Israel, the group of more than 30 UN ambassadors flew to Poland last week to take part in Thursday’s annual March of the Living ceremony, commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The delegation includes ambassadors from European Union member states, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and sub-Saharan Africa — including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Argentina, Panama, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
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