BREAKING: Ilana Gritzewsky, who was held hostage by Hamas, just took the floor at the United Nations to confront Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women. Her dramatic testimony:
Special Rapporteur, your report speaks about violence against women. Why is there no mention of Hamas?
On October 7, terrorists stormed our Kibbutz — murdering, kidnapping, and burning.
I was beaten and mutilated before blacking out.
I woke up half naked with seven terrorists standing over me, not knowing what happened to me in those lost moments.
I went through days of pain and horror in captivity, and even now the feeling of being powerless and violated still lingers.
I came back with a broken hip, a broken jaw and a shattered soul.
People see my face and think I’m free. But freedom is not a switch. Trauma doesn’t vanish once you are released.
Now, every air-raid siren, and every rocket from Iran, throws me back into that hell.
On October 7, and in captivity, Jewish women were raped, abused, and humiliated.
And you, Special Rapporteur, you chose silence and denial.
Ms. Alsalem, you said there was no evidence of sexual violence on October 7.
I am standing here today — not as a report, not as a statistic.
I am a woman who survived. I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas.
When I and other Israeli women begged not to be raped, why were you silent?
Please look at me. Do you believe us now?
Will you apologize?
NYC Mayor Mamdani lashed out at Israel yesterday for eliminating Ahmed Wishah, an Al Jazeera “journalist”
Palestinians posted an obituary of Wishah, the journalist 👇🏻
Ein Reporter von @welt war in den Terrortunneln der #Hisbollah im #Südlibanon. Er sah Tunnel unter Dörfern, Schulen und Moscheen. Dort versteckt waren Waffen, Raketen, Drohnen, Sprengstoffe - alles vom #Iran finanziert und geliefert.
Das ist keine Verteidigung. Das ist Terror!
Ms. @kajakallas, the EU High Rep. for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has for some time now been acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the State of Israel.
Recently, it was published that during her visit to Mexico, she compared Israel to the racist apartheid regime that existed in South Africa.
I am grateful to the many European elected representatives who condemned this grave statement.
However, to date, no denial, clarification or response has been issued by her regarding this severe statement.
Therefore, as the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel, I have no choice but to sever all contact with Ms. Kallas until she retracts the blood libel she directed at the world’s only Jewish state, which is also the only democracy in the Middle East.
And this is what I am doing.
Calling documented reports of October 7 sexual violence a "lie" doesn't erase the victims.
With your definition of a "bad person" is someone who believes Jews have the same right to self-determination as every other people, you didn't make Zionism look shameful.
You made it look foolish not to be one.
For years, Israel has been vilified for “targeting journalists” in Gaza.
Now @pressfreedom has removed more names from its list after admitting said "journalist" participated in combat.
That should be a major media scandal.
Instead, the same outlets that helped spread the accusation against Israel will quietly move on to the next libel.
The "only credible path forward"?
Then start by demanding that Hamas disarm, release every hostage, stop firing rockets, and stop teaching generations that murdering Jews is resistance.
Peace is not created by rewarding terrorism with political victories.
You don't build two democratic states when one side still celebrates massacres and refuses to recognize the other's right to exist.
The world keeps demanding that Israel take risks for peace.
It rarely demands that its enemies make peace worth risking.
**Until the international community holds terrorism to the same standard it holds Israel, calls for peace will sound less like principles and more like permission for the next massacre.**
Dear @Keir_Starmer@EmmanuelMacron@MarkJCarney:
In recent weeks you have repeatedly condemned Israel.
Iran just broke the ceasefire by firing ballistic missiles at Israel.
Will you now condemn Iran's aggression as a violation of international law? History is watching.
Slowly but surely, every IDF attack that was reported by Gazan "journalists" to have "targeted civilians" will be proven to have killed combatants. The "genocide" narrative is falling apart, which is why South Africa asked for a 3 year delay. And Hamas is providing the evidence.
UNIFIL's job was to monitor Hezbollah.
Not #Israel.
For years, Israeli officials have accused #UNIFIL of documenting #IDF movements while failing to prevent Hezbollah's military buildup south of the #Litani River.
A senior UNIFIL officer has acknowledged that information on IDF forces and movements was collected for years.
UNIFILs task was preventing #Hezbollah's military buildup instead they're collecting information on Hezbollah's primary target.
Hezbollah's tunnels weren't a secret.
Its rockets weren't a secret.
Its military infrastructure wasn't a secret.
Its violations of #Resolution1701 weren't a secret.
How did all that happened under the watch of a force whose mandate was supposed to prevent it.
And people still wonder why Israelis have lost confidence in UNIFIL.
@trtworld That's why #Israel is in #Lebanon. You wanna tell me that's normal? That Israel shouldn't react to that? Hezbollah refuses to disarm. Not even #Beirut want Hezbollah. But the Lebanese army hasn't the manpower not equipment to stop #Hezbollah
Interesting, the same side that spent years telling the #ICJ there was an "extraordinary urgency," an "imminent risk of irreparable harm," and demanding emergency intervention is now saying another 18 months is perfectly reasonable.
For a #genocide that was supposedly so urgent that the world had to act immediately, there suddenly seems to be an awful lot of time available.
Es ist interessant, dass dieselbe Seite, die den #IGH jahrelang mit Eilanträgen, Notfällen und angeblich unmittelbar bevorstehendem #Völkermord beschäftigt hat, jetzt erklärt, dass weitere 18 Monate völlig angemessen seien.
Für einen „#Genozid mit außergewöhnlicher Dringlichkeit“ scheint plötzlich erstaunlich viel Zeit vorhanden zu sein.