While the United Nations was ready to hear the effects of the Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry, which many call the demonization of the Jewish state, the parents of a 5-year-old boy killed in a Hamas bombing told their story to the media. accumulated in the open air the construction of the UN in New York.
“Have you ever damaged a promise you made to your son?” asked Asaf Avigal. Have you ever had to bury your own child because you didn’t keep your promise?In my case, that’s precisely what happened. “
Avigal’s son, Ido, was hiding with his circle of relatives in a safe room when he was hit and killed by shrapnel from a Hamas rocket in May 2021.
A day before Ido “killed, murdered through Hamas,” Avigal said his young son was terrified by rockets and endless siren. “He asked me, ‘Dad, what if we couldn’t get to the shelter in time when the rockets came?’ I said, ‘As long as you’re with me, you’re safe. ‘ I did to my son. My greatest wish is that you can protect your children and your family.
The UN Human Rights Council established the “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Adding East Jerusalem and Israel” in the spring of 2021 after Hamas sent more than 4,000 rockets raining down on Israeli cities, leading to the Israel Defense Forces’ ‘Operation Guardian’. The IOC was led by 3 Americans: Navi Pillay, Miloon Kathari and Chris Sidoti, who in the past had demonstrated anti-Israel bias. The IOC has no end date for its research and its studies are regressing. decades until the founding of the State of Israel.
Noting that the final report on the IOC does not mention Hamas or terrorism, but vilifies Israel, Avigal said: “Apparently, the rights of all humans are not there.
Ido’s mother, Shani, recounted the moment the rocket crashed into the construction alongside them and shrapnel crashed into their safe.
“I tried to save my little one,” he said. I passed over glass shards and glass shards and ran to my neighbors, but they didn’t hear me because they were in their own bomb shelter. I called the police and they said my son and I were dying.
Although Shani Avigal recovered and has visible scars on his frame, he said the biggest scar was the memory of “holding the frame of my deceased son. “It makes me hear screaming in the middle of the day. . . . Ido was a bright and funny boy with a deep soul. I dreamed of being an astronaut and assembling aliens. . . He was not a shahid,” he said, the Arabic word for martyr. “He didn’t know what hate was. He wasn’t a soldier, just a 5-year-old boy who protected himself with his bare hands.
The Avigals spoke at a press conference organized through the Israeli organization StandWithUs, co-sponsored by dozens of Jewish, Israeli and pro-Israel organizations.
Other speakers included Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan; William Daroff, Executive Director, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations; Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America; Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg, Director of United Nations Relations and Strategic Partnerships and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Rev. Robert Stearns, founder of Eagles’ Wings Ministries and president of Israel Christian Nexus; Olga Meshe Washington, South African local and board member of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel; Colonel Richard Kemp, retired commander of the British Army; Professor Anne Bayefsky, who directs the Touro Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust and is president of Human Rights Voices; and Carly Gammill, founding director of the StandWithUs Center to Combat Anti-Semitism.
Sarri Singer, an American who was wounded and survived a Hamas bombing on bus No. 14 in June 2003 and discovered Force by Force, an organization that helps those suffering from terrorism, also spoke. He found that there were only two seats left. He picked up the one through the window. Everyone sitting and those around them was killed in the blast, which injured more than a hundred people and killed 17 Israelis.
“The Human Rights Council is an oxymoron, an abuse of its impressive name. It ignores the voices of those who suffer while obsessively and relentlessly attacking the world’s only Jewish state,” he said.
“Where is the commission of inquiry into why Israel has to protect its citizens from Hamas terror attacks?Where is the commission of inquiry into harmful Palestinian schooling and ongoing acts of terrorism?. . . Where is the UN when the families of terrorists get $25,000?or more in payment for fatal attacks committed by a member of the circle of relatives?”
“It’s unfortunate that I have to say it, but it’s time for the Human Rights Council to stand up for human rights instead of justifying murder and terrorism,” Singer continued. “Let’s send a transparent message today to the UN and all the other smart people who really care about human rights. Darkness will never extinguish light. Evil will never defeat the intelligent. And we will continue to fight and talk about our deed over and over again until someone listens to us.
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