In his remarks on the Security Council ministerial assembly on the scenario within the Middle East, Blinken drew a parallel between the terrorist assaults by Hamas towards Israel and the Pakistan-based terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai.
Drawing a parallel between terrorist assaults by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai and by Hamas in Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday stated that every one acts of terrorism are “unlawful and unjustifiable” and the Security Council should denounce member states that arm, fund and prepare terrorist teams. Blinken made the remarks whereas addressing the Security Council ministerial assembly on the scenario within the Middle East following the October 7 assault on Israel by Gaza-based Hamas militants.
“We must affirm the right of any nation to defend itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself. No member of this Council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people,” Blinken instructed the UN Security Council right here.
In his remarks, Blinken drew a parallel between the terrorist assaults by Hamas towards Israel and the Pakistan-based terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai.
“As this Council and the UN General Assembly have repeatedly affirmed, all acts of terrorism are unlawful and unjustifiable. They’re unlawful and unjustifiable, whether they target people in Nairobi or Bali… Istanbul or Mumbai, in New York or Kibbutz Be’eri,” he stated.
“They are unlawful and unjustifiable whether they’re carried out by ISIS, by Boko Haram, by Al Shabaab, by Lashkar-e-Taiba or by Hamas. They are unlawful and unjustifiable whether victims are targeted for their faith, their ethnicity, their nationality or any other reason,” Blinken stated.
He confused that the Security Council has a accountability to denounce member states that arm, fund and prepare Hamas or “any other terrorist group that carries out such horrific acts.” Blinken’s remarks appeared to consult with the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults carried out by Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. A complete of 166 individuals, together with six Americans, had been killed within the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults during which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid a greater than 60-hour siege, attacking and killing individuals in India’s monetary hub.
Blinken added that the worldwide group should not overlook that among the many greater than 1400 those that Hamas killed on October 7 when it attacked Israel, had been residents from greater than 30 UN member states, together with many of the members across the horseshoe UNSC desk. The victims included at the very least 33 American residents. “Every one of us has a stake, every one of us has a responsibility in defeating terrorism,” Blinken stated.
Addressing the Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated the scenario within the Middle East is rising extra dire by the hour. “The war in Gaza is raging and risks spiralling throughout the region. Divisions are splintering societies. Tensions threaten to boil over,” he stated.
The UN chief, nonetheless, added that it’s “important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.
“They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing,” he stated.
“But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” Guterres stated.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported over 5,000 Palestinians have been killed to date, together with over 2,000 youngsters and 1,100 ladies in addition to journalists, medical employees and first responders, with greater than 15,000 injured.
