UN Ignores October 7 Victims in Exhibit for Terror Victims Remembrance Day

August 22, 2024

by: Itamar Eichner ~ Ynetnews

Thursday, 22 August 2024 | To mark the seventh commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, a virtual high-level event titled “Voices for Peace: Victims of Terrorism as Peace Advocates and Educators” took place on August 21. The exhibition includes victims of the Twin Towers attack in 2001 and even terrorism in Indonesia, but not a single representation of the October 7 massacre terror victims or any other Israeli terror victim.

The exhibition presented various stories and memorials as part of the commemoration events taking place on Wednesday at the United Nations, including a statement by Secretary-General António Guterres and a panel of terror victims who are geographically and gender diverse.

However, the events do not include victims from the Hamas massacre in Gaza border communities, which is the largest terrorist attack of the year.

On his last day in office, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, recorded a video in which he strongly criticized the ignoring of the victims of the massacre.

The exhibition at the visitor’s entrance to the UN presents 15 posters of victims or survivors of terrorism next to an object that is unique to each of them along with a QR code that links to a video in which the victim shares his memory and what the object symbolizes for him. The exhibition features victims of the 9/11 terror attack, victims of terrorism from Indonesia and a Palestinian woman whose son was injured in a terrorist attack in New Zealand, though those looking at the poster would assume that she was the victim of an Israeli attack.

The exhibition seen by every visitor to the UN does not include a single representation of the victims of the October 7 massacre or of any other victim of terrorism from Israel.

Israel’s new ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said: “The UN’s ignoring of Israeli terror victims, and during the year of such a brutal and shocking massacre, is a disgrace and marks a new moral low for the UN. The October 7 massacre is the largest terrorist attack in the last year and the most brutal massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, in which 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 109 are still being held hostage in Gaza.”

“The UN was able to find the mother of a ‘Palestinian terror victim’ who was killed in New Zealand but was unable to find a single terror victim from the most brutal massacre that happened this year, or any Israeli terror victim from the thousands of terror incidents carried out against us. The Israeli delegation to the UN will make sure that no one in this building forgets October 7 and our hostages,” Danon added. “As long as the UN doesn’t declare Hamas a terrorist organization, this day remains utterly meaningless.”

Posted on August 22, 2024

Source: (This article was originally published by Ynetnews on August 21, 2024. Time-related language has been modified to reflect our republication today. See original article at this link.)

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