By Rachel Hamdoun

No, not from his hotel room in Manhattan. No, not from the UN headquarters office in New York.

From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday morning, Israeli ‘Crime Minister’ Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the assassination of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement in Lebanon.

Shortly after leaving the podium after his Churchill-like speech, the prime minister of the Tel Aviv government ordered a carpet bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Duhih.

Residential buildings and urban infrastructure in the neighborhood collapsed seconds after Netanyahu walked away from the UN podium.

He addressed a group of UN delegates who have been celebrating a year of Israeli genocide in Gaza, while others walked out of the hall holding a war criminal with a conscience.

Hours after the deadliest attacks on Beirut since 2006, a photo emerged of Netanyahu talking on the phone with two military personnel standing behind him in what appeared to be New York, but it is not known whether. It was taken in his hotel room or at the UN headquarters.

Knowing where the photo was taken is irrelevant. Most importantly, the platform was given and so was the green light for his forces to carry out the order to assassinate the leader of the Lebanese resistance, which was a cover for Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals. It had become a nightmare.

Where is the United Nations, you ask? Where is the International Criminal Court? Where is the International Court of Justice? Look at Palestine for the last 76 years: if you can explain the occupation, you can explain the existence of international law – and how it has repeatedly failed, and paid top dollar for it. .

Over the past week, since the opening of the UNGA’s 79th session on September 24, we have heard calls from world leaders to end the suffering in Gaza and the aggression against Lebanon.

Their cries seem to be unheeded by the cries of children burned, torn to shreds and buried by their grieving parents in Gaza, and the wails of women in Lebanon with their husbands, sons and brothers wrapped in white shrouds of martyrdom. are oblivious to

Briefly, let’s examine just some of the violations that the Israeli government has committed with respect to international humanitarian law and customary international law.

Violating the Geneva Conventions of International Law, and including all of the following:

Rule 2: Instilling terror among civilians

Principle 7: Principle of Discrimination

Rule 11: Indiscriminate attacks

Rule 14: Ratio

Rule 17: Unlawful means and methods of warfare

Rules 25 to 30: Targeting medical units and personnel

Rule 31: Targeting humanitarian aid personnel

Rule 34: Targeting journalists

Rule 35: Targeting hospitals and protected areas

Rule 45: Destruction of the natural environment

Rule 51: Destruction and confiscation of property in occupied territory

Rule 53: Starvation as a method of warfare

Rule 65: Insolence.

Rule 71: Weapons that are inherently indiscriminate.

Rule 84: Incendiary weapons

Rule 90: Inhumane Treatment and Torture

Rule 93: Rape and sexual violence

Rule 97: Use of human shields

Rule 106: Inhuman conditions of prisoners of war

Rule 112 to 117: Ill-treatment of dead and missing persons

Rule 129: Forced displacement

Rule 133: Destruction of property of displaced persons

Rule 134: Endangerment of women

Rule 135: Child endangerment

More than 30 violations of international law and not a single prosecutor can issue an arrest warrant against Netanyahu or Yoo Gallant or Benny Gantz, or even prevent Netanyahu from speaking at the United Nations.

Why was the United Nations founded? Wasn’t the purpose of this organization to maintain and enforce peace and security? International Criminal Court was established for what purpose? Is there no legal action against the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes?

It is ridiculous to ask these questions in a world where human rights have been co-opted and international law has come to serve its violators.

When the United States threatens a fundamental principle of the international order if those in command dare to arrest or prosecute Netanyahu, it is fair to say that justice is blind.

The United States is the largest funder of the United Nations and many of its agencies, so it’s safe to say money talks (or, for that matter, silence). The United Nations was born out of the League of Nations, which was established in 1920 by US President Woodrow Wilson for world peace, which itself endorsed and approved the Balfour Declaration for the occupation of Palestine.

Having failed after the outbreak of World War II, the United Nations was founded by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and none other than British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

The UN, ICC and ICJ, through their silence and inaction, have been complicit and have given Netanyahu and the US administration a ‘license to kill’.

It goes without saying that these large-scale atrocities and horrors would not have been possible had it not been for the US-supplied F-35, bombs, drones and bunker-buster bombs used to kill Nasrallah and Iranian military adviser Brigadier General Abbas. nail polish

Yet, the UN rolls out the red carpet and gives time and space to assassins like Netanyahu, Biden, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield, to investigate violations of international law. An attempt can be made to justify it. Continued attacks against civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

This is the narrative that has been used by the US administration since its genocide against Native Americans, its wars and invasions against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and the list goes on. America’s corrupt and illegitimate children are only trying to perpetuate this ideology and the international ‘disorder’ is paving the way for it.

During his speech at the UNGA, just hours before ordering the carpet bombing of Beirut, Netanyahu used the rhetoric that Israel has always resorted to, claiming that every civilian home in Lebanon was destroyed. There are missiles in the kitchen and rockets in each garage. He claimed that Israel is a peaceful country that is being falsely accused of genocide.

They claimed that Israel helped deliver 700,000 tons of food to Gaza, but targeting aid trucks this year, such as the Kuwait Roundabout incident known as the Flour Massacre, and the deliberate World Central Kitchen strike that 7 of its humanitarian workers were killed in Gaza as a result. , will prove otherwise.

Netanyahu, as expected, went so far as to attack the organization, calling it a joke, and actually counting how many times the UN has condemned Israel and how many times it has condemned others.

Finally, he called it antisemitism. Ah yes, the anti-Semitic card that Israel and the US play every time they commit a crime and want to play the victim.

What Netanyahu said, whether at the United Nations or during a speech to the US Congress in July 2024 that drew 58 standing ovations, was nothing new and never has been — with the same words. But every time there is a different parrot.

America and Israel do not know what they have just done.

Nasrallah’s name will never appear in the sentence as ‘was’. He is more than a leader. He is an idea, he is a school, and ideas and schools never die, and resistance never ends.

Generations were born, generations were born. I am grateful and blessed to have been born and raised in his life leading the fight against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000 until its liberation, and the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, and Now witnessing his path to freedom. Captured Al-Quds, stopped the genocide in Gaza and massacres in South Lebanon and Dahiya.

Israel thinks it buried the Lebanese resistance, but it doesn’t know it buried the seeds.

He is the father of a free man, the great man who gave hope to the hopeless and the voice of the helpless, the man who children like me grew up hoping to meet one day, the legendary leader who believed in himself. created Talked to our hearts and the meaning of love, the man who protected Lebanon and Al-Quds with everything he had.

The martyrdom of a hero who intimidated the Israeli occupation by lifting a finger has made our resistance against the occupation stronger and prouder.

Syed Nasrullah promised us that we will liberate Palestine together and soon we will pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is not just a promise – it is the truth of the horizon that we already see closely.

Raheel Hamdoun He is a reporter for Press TV in America.

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