NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage on Friday at the United Nations for a mass raising of delegations as well as cheers of supporters invited to the public.
Delegates were called to order while Netanyahu began his speech, the first of the day in the annual general meeting.
Netanyahu said that his country had “crushed most” of the armed Palestinian group “Terror Machine” and sought to complete the work “as quickly as possible”.
A sign left by the Iranian delegation with images of children who, according to them, were killed by Israel.Photo: Reuters
Netanyahu celebrated what he said was a series of Israeli strategic victories in the past year which also included targeting the Iranian nuclear program and the assassination of the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.
More deaths in Gaza
In Gaza, the Civil Defense Agency said the Israeli forces had killed more than 20 people through Palestinian territory on Friday, before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the United Nations in New York.
It comes then that the Israeli soldiers press its offensive against Hamas in the city of Gaza, of which hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee.
The Civil Defense Agency – A rescue force operating under the authority of Hamas – reported at least 22 people killed since dawn across the territory, including 11 in Gaza City.
The Israeli army said in a statement on Friday that the Air Force had had during the last day “reached more than 140 targets in the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, Tunnel trees (and) military infrastructure”.
AFP images of the Al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City showed heavy damage to buildings after an air strike.
The buildings stood with facades exploded by explosions, while people, including a young girl with bare feet, sought through rubble for personal effects. The overturned posts have created a network of powerless electrical wires on the ground.
On Friday, the United Nations published a long -awaited update of its business database with activities in Israeli colonies in the Palestinian territories, listing 158 companies in 11 countries.
The head of the Rights of the United Nations, Volker Turk, condemned as war crime to the policy of Israel of the colonies on the Palestinian territory in occupied West Bank.
Large companies such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and Trip Advisor remained on the list, while several companies, including Alstom and Opodo, have been deleted, showed the non -exhaustive database.
Most companies were based in Israel, while others were based in Canada, China, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain and the United States.
The report of the United Nations Rights Office has called on companies to “take appropriate measures to deal with the unfavorable effects of human rights” of their activities.
The United Nations has published a long -awaited update of its business database with activities in Israeli colonies in the Palestinian territories, listing 158 companies in 11 countries.
The head of the Rights of the United Nations, Volker Turk, condemned as war crime to the policy of Israel of the colonies on the Palestinian territory in occupied West Bank.
Large companies such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and Trip Advisor remained on the list, while several companies, including Alstom and Opodo, have been deleted, showed the non -exhaustive database.
Most companies were based in Israel, while others were based in Canada, China, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain and the United States.
The report of the United Nations Rights Office has called on companies to “take appropriate measures to deal with the unfavorable effects of human rights” of their activities.
“When commercial companies identify that they have caused or contributed to unfavorable impacts on human rights, they should foresee or cooperate in sanitation through appropriate processes,” he said.
Turk said in a press release: “This report underlines the responsibility for the reasonable diligence of companies working in conflict contexts to ensure that their activities do not contribute to human rights violations.”
Mainly Israeli companies
The list was produced for the first time by the United Nations Human Rights Office in 2020 in the midst of severe Israeli critics.
He came in response to a resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council four years ago to demand a business database that took advantage of affairs in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.
The United Nations Rights Office has been invited to include companies that participate in one of the 10 specific activities, including construction, monitoring, demolitions and destruction of agricultural land in Israeli establishments in the West Bank, including Jerusalem-Est.
He stressed that the registration companies in the database was “not and does not claim to be a legal or almost judicial process”.
Despite a requirement for updating the annual database, it was revised only once before.
It was in 2023, when only the 112 companies which had appeared on the original list were examined.
Fifteen of them were removed for various reasons, leaving 97.
