Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki speak at a high-level session of the UN Security Council in New York.
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00:00 It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.
00:06 The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.
00:13 They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence.
00:18 Their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished.
00:25 Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.
00:30 But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas
00:35 and those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian
00:40 people.
00:42 If you say you are for international law, international humanitarian law and for protection
00:48 of civilians, then nothing can justify what Israel is doing.
00:54 This is targeting of civilians or at best inhumane, unlawful, indiscriminate attacks.
01:01 This is collective punishment.
01:04 The proportional response to October 7 massacre is a total destruction, a total destruction
01:12 to the last one of the Hamas.
01:15 It is not only Israel's right to destroy Hamas, it's our duty.
01:19 Thank you.
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