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(July 30, 2025 / JNS)
Some two months before the second anniversary of the Hamas-led terrorist invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, 17 countries and entities signed onto the “New York Declaration,” marking “a first condemnation by Arab nations of Hamas, whose attacks killed about 1,200, mainly Israeli civilians, and whose militants took about 250 people hostage,” the Associated Press reported.
The declaration received somewhat muted coverage hours after the United Kingdom made international headlines when it said it would recognize a Palestinian state in September if Israel didn’t take certain steps.
On the second day of a U.N. conference in New York about a two-state solution, the 17 denounced the Oct. 7 massacre and said that Hamas’s rule must come to an end in Gaza. They did so in the same paragraph that they denounced Israel.
“We condemn the attacks committed by Hamas against civilians on Oct. 7. We also condemn the attacks by Israel against civilians in Gaza and civilian infrastructure, siege and starvation, which have resulted in a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis,” the 17 said in the declaration. “There is no justification for breaches in grave violation of international law, including international humanitarian law, and we stressed the need for accountability.”
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Some two months before the second anniversary of the Hamas-led terrorist invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, 17 countries and entities signed onto the “New York Declaration,” marking “a first condemnation by Arab nations of Hamas, whose attacks killed about 1,200, mainly Israeli civilians, and whose militants took about 250 people hostage,” the Associated Press reported.
The declaration received somewhat muted coverage hours after the United Kingdom made international headlines when it said it would recognize a Palestinian state in September if Israel didn’t take certain steps.
On the second day of a U.N. conference in New York about a two-state solution, the 17 denounced the Oct. 7 massacre and said that Hamas’s rule must come to an end in Gaza. They did so in the same paragraph that they denounced Israel.
“We condemn the attacks committed by Hamas against civilians on Oct. 7. We also condemn the attacks by Israel against civilians in Gaza and civilian infrastructure, siege and starvation, which have resulted in a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis,” the 17 said in the declaration. “There is no justification for breaches in grave violation of international law, including international humanitarian law, and we stressed the need for accountability.”
For first time, Arab countries decry Hamas attack on Oct. 7 in ‘New York Declaration’
“While our hostages are languishing in Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza, these countries choose to engage in hollow statements,” stated the Israeli envoy to the United Nations.
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