{"id":517422,"date":"2026-06-30T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:52:10","slug":"israeli-lawyer-denounces-israel-at-un-envoy-fires-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517422\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli lawyer denounces Israel at UN, envoy fires back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli attorney Itay Epstein sharply criticized Israel at the UN Security Council on Monday, urging international action against the country during a periodic debate on Resolution 2334, which says Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.<\/p>\n

Epstein adopted the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, saying \u201cIsrael\u2019s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is itself unlawful.\u201d <\/p>\n

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon remarks against attorney Itay Epstein at the UN Security Council<\/p>\n

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He called on the Security Council to act to end Israel\u2019s presence, dismantle settlements and avoid cooperation with what he described as an \u201cunlawful situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon denounced Epstein\u2019s appearance and noted that Epstein had previously compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe UN is no longer satisfied with Hamas propaganda,\u201d Danon said. \u201cThis time the presidency made an extra effort. It found some of the most radical anti-Israel voices it could find. These are not. Neutral experts. Definitely not. Mr. Itai Epstein, if you look at the social media, even compared President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to Hitler a few months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danon said anyone who uses the Security Council platform to \u201cdefame IDF soldiers\u201d and call for action against Israel is \u201cnot a human rights activist, but a partner in the international campaign seeking to harm the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly ten years after @UN<\/a> Security Council Resolution 2334 was adopted, the question is no longer whether settlements violate international law, but whether States are prepared to give legal consequence to that conclusion. <\/p>\n

The International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ<\/a> has now\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Itay Epshtain (@EpshtainItay) June 29, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n

Epstein also accused Israel of obstructing humanitarian work. In a post on X, he said states must move beyond \u201cstatements of concern\u201d and pursue nonrecognition, nonassistance and cooperation to end Israel\u2019s presence in territories captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. He also called for remedies for Palestinians, including restitution where possible and compensation through an expanded UN damage registry.<\/p>\n

Danon said the episode showed how the UN gives a platform to figures promoting legal and diplomatic campaigns against Israel while presenting them as \u201cIsraeli voices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli attorney Itay Epstein sharply criticized Israel at the UN Security Council on Monday, urging international action against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-517422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}