Attendees at a UN human rights meeting turned their backs to US Ambassador Michelle Taylor during her speech. This was reported by Reuters.
It was noted that Taylor had to speak while looking at the backs of the meeting participants. Thus, diplomats protested to the United States against Israel’s ongoing bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Before this, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, at the Security Council meeting statedIt was stated that the Jewish state demanded an apology from the UN for allegedly allowing the Palestinian Hamas movement to create a “war machine” in the Gaza Strip for years.
According to him, “some” in the United Nations and the UN Security Council “were quick to recognize the lies of terrorists like ISIS and refused to recognize concrete evidence of a law-abiding democracy.” Erdan added that the UN never met with the Security Council when Hamas rockets were fired at Israeli hospitals.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flared up.