Israel’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said his country was not waging a war “with Palestinians” but with Hamas, adding that the terrorist organisation does not care about Palestinian people, peace or dialogue.

Invoking the deadly coordinated attacks by Hamas terrorists on unarmed civilians in southern Israel on October 7, Erdan, during his address at the special session of the UN General Assembly, said the ‘massacre’ had nothing to do with the Palestinians.

“Every member State here today who is convinced that we are above to discuss yet another round of conflict in the Middle East another dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is wrong,” he said.

“The October 7th Massacre and what ensued has nothing to do with the Palestinians, nothing. It has nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Palestinian question. This is not a war with the Palestinians. Israel is at war with the genocidal jihadist Hamas terror organization only. It is the law-abiding democracy of Israel against modern-day Nazis,” he added.

The envoy noted further that Hamas has only one goal, which is to murder every single Jew.

“Hamas do not care about the Palestinian people. They do not care about peace or dialogue. Hamas has only one goal to annihilate Israel and murder every single Jew on the face of the Earth,” Erdan said.

Raising the “brutal killings” of Israeli civilians by Hamas and the “intentional targeting” of Israeli medical teams that were trying to help the injured during the terror attack, Erdan said his country will continue combating the “genocidal terrorists committed to Israel’s destruction”.

“We will not rest until Hamas is obliterated and our hostages are returned home and we will bring them home,” he added.

“Israel’s mission is to eradicate this evil from the earth eradicate. ISIS was the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Hamas is the Islamic State of Gaza. So, just as was done with ISIS, Hamas must be no more,” Israel’s permanent envoy to the UN stated further.

“Our goal is to completely eradicate Hamas’s capabilities and we will use every means at our disposal to accomplish this. Not for Revenge, no not for retaliation no but to ensure that such depravity such atrocities never occur again. Israel is at the forefront of the war on radical jihadist terror and if Israel doesn’t succeed in obliterating Hamas’s Terror capabilities. The whole world will pay the price,” he added.

Erdan also showed a video clip that he claimed showed the brutal decapitation with a garden tool of a helpless agricultural worker from Thailand.

He turned the screen of the tablet towards the delegates for them to see the purported beheading of a foreign national by Hamas terrorists.

“On October 7, it became clear to the entire world that Hamas’s Charter was not a compilation of empty words it was an action plan. Imagine, a bright sunny day clear skies, music in the air, young people are dancing ….a concert for Peace, yes for peace It is really it is early morning on the holy Shabbat, the sun is just risen to mark a new day it is also a festive Jewish High holiday Simchat Torah means the joy of the Torah where we celebrate the book of of books our Holy Bible and then in one split second this Idyllic Eden became hell on Earth,” the Israeli envoy to the UN said.

“The peaceful morning air was pierced with the whale of rocket sirens. I’m telling you thousands of Hamas mortars and rockets rain down indiscriminately on many Israeli cities and villages but the buckets were only covered for the …, the …that followed barbarian Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from the sea the land and the air they came with one purpose only to savagely murder every living thing they encountered,” he added.

Meanwhile, weighing in on the ongoing war on Hamas, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi said “there is no room for grey areas”, adding that the Israeli government have cabinet members who call for “wiping out Palestinians from the face of this Earth.”

He said Israel was making Gaza “hell on earth”, adding, “We must stand for peace, our human values and the UN Charter.”

“History will judge us. Say no to war. Say no to the killing. Call out war crimes,” Safadi stated.

Calling on Israel to uphold values, he said, “The right to self-defence is not a right to impunity; Israel cannot remain above the land”, adding, “Let the guns go silent and let the will to live and let live prevail. Let’s restore faith in the peace process as the only path to ending this conflict once and for all.”

“Let’s make a collective cry, a cry out against more bloodletting. Let’s unite for peace. Make a stand for peace, make a stand for life, make it clear, make it firm,” the Jordanian deputy PM added.

He also called for a moment of silence for all the civilians who have lost their lives during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Britain will set up the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) safety institute, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday before he hosts a gathering next week of representatives of AI companies, political leaders and experts.

The institute “will advance the world’s knowledge of AI safety and it will carefully examine, evaluate and test new types of AI so that we understand what each new model is capable of, exploring all the risks from social harms like bias and misinformation through to the most extreme risks of all,” Rishi Sunak said in a speech in London.

Israel’s United Nations envoy showed the 193-member General Assembly a brief video on Thursday that he said showed a Hamas fighter trying to decapitate a man with a garden tool during the Palestinian militants’ October 7 attack on Israel.

Ambassador Gilad Erdan told diplomats the victim seen in the few seconds of footage he played for them on a tablet was not Israeli or Jewish, but an agricultural worker from Thailand.

“One can see a terribly injured civilian – bloodied, yet alive – laying on the ground as a Hamas savage screaming Allahu Akbar repeatedly pummels the man’s neck with a garden hoe in order to decapitate him,” Erdan told the assembly.

Erdan’s comments were delivered as the assembly began a two-day meeting on the Middle East on Thursday.

It is due to vote on Friday on a resolution drafted by Arab states that calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

At each seat in the hall at United Nations headquarters, Israeli diplomats placed a print out of a QR code with the title “Free Gaza from Hamas, scan to see Hamas’ atrocities”. It linked to photos and videos from the October 7 attack.

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for the attack that killed 1,400 people. Israel has struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege on the enclave of 2.3 million people and is preparing a ground invasion. Palestinian authorities say more than 7,000 have been killed.

Speaking on behalf of Arab states, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused Israel of “making Gaza a perpetual hell on earth – the trauma will haunt generations to come.” He said the impact on Palestinian civilians was immense.

“I don’t have videos to show you, we respect the dead too much,” Safadi said.

Arguing for a ceasefire, Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said certain nations, which he did not name, were applying a clear double standard.

“How can representatives of states explain how horrible it is that 1,000 Israelis were killed, and not feel the same outrage when 1,000 Palestinians are now killed every single day?” Mansour asked the assembly. “Why not feel a sense of urgency to end their killing?”