Israel Blames Rising West Bank Casualties On Palestinian Terror During UN Security Council

Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, speaks at SC (Security Council) stakeout on January 19th, 2022 at the UN Headquarters. Ambassador Erdan also demonstrated a brick he said Palestinians used to throw onto Israelis. LEV RADIN/PACIFIC PRESS/LIGHT ROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES

While members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday expressed alarm over the rising number of Palestinian casualties, Israel’s ambassador urged them to take a look at the underlying reason: ongoing security operations meant to stop a brutal escalation in terrorism.

“Israel is in the midst of a terror wave,” said Israeli envoy, Gilad Erdan, to the council during Friday’s quarterly debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Since the start of this year alone, there have been over 4,000 Palestinian terror attacks perpetrated against Israelis. Car ramming, rock throwing, fire bombings, stabbing, shootings, rockets and many other acts of Palestinian violence have become a fact of life for millions of Israelis.” While “the Palestinian Authority may play victim here at the council,” he said further, in the jihadists hotbeds of Jenin and Nablus it “praise[s] terrorists.”