

In sharp contrast to the statement of UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the world body’s high commissioner for rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, noticeably refused to call Wednesday’s Palestinian shooting of Israelis in Tel Aviv a terrorist attack, which killed 4 and injured 16, and he refused to mention that the attackers were Palestininan. Moreover, unlike Ban Ki-moon, Zeid’s statement declined to call out Hamas leaders for celebrating the murder.

Instead, Al-Hussein devoted the bulk of his statement to condemning Israel’s response to the murders, and he effectively justified the attackers by emphasizing the alleged “sense of injustice and frustration felt by Palestinians in this very tense time.” His statement his below.

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Press briefing note on Israel / occupied Palestinian territory