Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon delivered a statement Wednesday afternoon ahead of the upcoming Security Council meeting later that day.
Danon began by recounting the terrorist attacks in which Israeli citizens were killed and injured on Wednesday. “Today, six innocent people were injured, two of them still in critical condition, in a brutal mass-stabbing attack in the city of Hadera, a little bit south of Haifa.”
“In Kiryat Shmona, Hezbollah’s rockets murdered a man and a woman who were simply walking their dog,” he noted. “And yet, even as Hezbollah continues their murderous campaign, senior Hezbollah officials have the audacity that Israel cease fire.”
“Let me be clear about that,” he said. “No one should mistake the arrogance of these terrorists for diplomacy. Hezbollah calls for a ceasefire whole simultaneously murdering Israeli civilians with their rockets.”