The important things that have happened here in the last few days are not Ben Gvir's attack against the US President, nor the repeated cantor of cabinet ministers against the Chief of Staff.
The most important event is the visit of the UN Under-Secretary-General and the Special Envoy for Sexual Abuse in International Conflicts, Permila Patten, who was invited to Israel by the Division for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was accompanied by Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan.
For months the acts were denied, and in such and other statements it was claimed against Israel that the things were made up.
After a wide publicity campaign, Israel managed to crack the veil of world indifference, and the person responsible at the UN for preventing sexual assaults in the world came to Israel to see with her own eyes and talk to the victims.
The shock was evident on her face after she toured the surrounding settlements, met with ZAKA members and survivors, and was exposed to the crimes committed on the bodies of young women and men, who were sexually assaulted, raped, sodomized, and some of whom were shot and beheaded after the criminal acts by Hamas members. Before she left the Israel told Patten that nowhere in the world has it encountered such shocking acts as those it was exposed to in Israel.
Condemnation is not heard, only criticism of Israel that harms the population in Gaza.
The absurd cried out to the sky - we were attacked and now we are defending ourselves, and in the world we are seen as aggressors
Her words are important but also outrageous, in view of the endless references to the UN and other international bodies that will flood the issue and condemn it. No condemnation is heard, only criticism of Israel that harms the population in Gaza. The absurdity screamed to the sky - we were attacked and now we are defending ourselves, and in the world we are seen as aggressors. Good Fael Patten said that she now understands "the magnitude of Israel's pain, insult and anger regarding the fact that the world did not sufficiently understand and address the horrors that happened to you." At the end of the month, she is to publish data on sexual assaults in 25 countries, and Israel will receive an entire chapter there. Better late than never.
But the time has come for this organization to move its bulging butt and work for the abductees, including young women who were sexually assaulted by Hamas.
Every day that the abductees are there their lives and bodies are in immediate and clear danger.
It is time for the UN to demand the release not only with empty statements like that of the UN Secretary General, who responded on October 7 with an outrageous statement supporting terrorism: "It is human nature to respond to the occupation", and after Israel protested he met with the families of the abductees and pledged that he would wear the The disc calling for their release.
After 123 days, words are not enough.
The UN has the capabilities and possibilities to put pressure on Hamas, including declaring it a terrorist organization, something it has so far avoided doing, as well as publishing the list of their names and their health status. After all, France and Qatar led the delivery of the drugs at Israel's request, and not the UN or the World Health Organization. Shrek said he would provide aid - along with expressing concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
It's a shame that Ben-Gurion's statement in 1955, "The United Nations is desolate", which expressed a lack of appreciation for the organization - will become relevant again.
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