Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reacted to a UN report that accused Israel of violating international law, calling the UN report “anti-Semitic.”
He said: “While I was not Prime Minister during Operation Wall Guardians, I feel obliged to emphasize that the United Nations report on the operation is biased, false, inflammatory and blatantly unbalanced”, noting that “not all criticism Israel is anti-Semitic, but this report was written by anti-Semites, as Israel has already shown, and it is clearly seen that it is anti-Semitic.”
This comes after a commission of inquiry set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council following the events of “Guardian of the Wall” indicated that “Israel’s expansion into the Palestinian territories under international law is absolutely illegitimate, and the report criticized the de facto annexation policy.” Israeli government.”
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price did not comment on the report’s findings, but reaffirmed Washington’s position on US concerns about the Commission of Inquiry and the UN Human Rights Council, saying “Israel is not being treated fairly within the UN system. including the Commission of Inquiry. “This is an investigation. No country should be immune from scrutiny, but no country should be treated unfairly.”
Source: i24news