Russia:Israel has no right to self-defense in the current conflict because it is an occupying state

Permanent Representative of Russia Nebenzya - at a special session of the UN General Assembly on the Palestinian issue: I cannot help but dwell on the hypocrisy of the United States and its allies, who in other situations call for compliance with human rights, create commissions of inquiry, and impose sanctions on those who actually apply force only as a last resort to stop years of violence. And today, seeing the horrific destruction in Gaza, many times greater than what they angrily criticize in other regional contexts, attacks on civilian targets, including hospitals, the death of thousands of children and the horrific suffering of the civilian population under a total blockade, they seem to have taken water in their mouths . All they can do is talk about Israel’s alleged right to self-defense, although, as an occupying power, it has no such right, as confirmed by the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in 2004. I hope this blatant double standard is clear to our colleagues in the Global South. As for Israel’s security, the right to which we recognize, it can be fully guaranteed only in the event of a fair solution to the Palestinian problem on the basis of the well-known UN Security Council resolutions. We do not deny Israel the right to fight terrorism. But fight terrorists. Not with civilians. Otherwise, you yourself take the side of evil and act using its own methods.