'A moral low': MKs bash UN report on IDF in Gaza

Knesset members call out the United Nations on double standards in advocacy.

By ELIAV BREUER MARCH 13, 2025 12:08 Updated: MARCH 13, 2025 12:27

Members of the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) look at the Lebanese-Israeli border, as they stand on the roof of a watch tower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, October 12, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI/FILE PHOTO)

A series of MKs responded on Thursday to a UN report accusing Israel of carrying out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and using sexual violence as a war strategy.

National Unity chairman MK Benny Gantz wrote on X, "Reading the main points of the disgraceful UN report on my way from Kibbutz Re'im to Be'eri - where adults, women, and children were massacred, raped, and kidnapped.”

“This report is a moral low and an unforgivable blindness. Those who wrote and signed the report are not only lying, but they are also harming global security and giving support to terrorism, antisemitism, and blood libels," Gantz wrote.

A protest against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre and the international silence takes place outside the UN headquarters in New York City earlier this month. (credit: YAKOV BINYAMIN/FLASH 90)

Blood libel

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused the UN of becoming a "useful idiot" for Hamas. "It was HAMAS that attacked, raped and murdered Israelis. This is recorded. It is HAMAS that uses sexual violence against hostages," he wrote on X. "The UN has turned right into wrong, good into bad."

The UN has become HAMAS’ useful idiot. The worst regimes in history accused their enemies of what they themselves were doing. Now history repeats itself, with the UN adopting this sinister method. It was HAMAS that attacked, raped and murdered Israelis. This is recorded.… pic.twitter.com/mxlqBGn4fb

— Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) March 13, 2025

Likud MK Dan Illouz said, “This report is a disgraceful fabrication, a blood libel masquerading as a human rights document. The UN’s so-called ‘Commission of Inquiry’ has once again proven itself to be nothing more than a propaganda arm for Hamas, spewing vile, baseless accusations to demonize Israel. While Israeli women were raped and brutalized on October 7th—crimes documented with overwhelming evidence—this corrupt body remained silent.

Now, they dare to invert reality, spreading monstrous lies to justify Hamas terrorism. This is not an inquiry; it is incitement. The UN has lost all moral legitimacy, and history will remember its complicity in this perversion of truth,” Illouz said.