UN High Commissioner Bachelet: "Appalling events in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory have once again called this Council into Special Session. Israeli attacks resulted in extensive civilian deaths and injuries, as well as large-scale destruction and damage to civilian objects. Such attacks may constitute war crimes."

PLO: "Perpetuating crimes, expanding its colonialism and establishing apartheid from the river to the sea... This Hell has a name: It is called the Israeli occupation and its crimes."

Pakistan: "The people of Palestine have once again faced relentless onslaught on their rights and dignity."

Iran: "The narrative that equalizes aggressors and victims is legally baseless and morally inhuman."

Venezuela: "We reject the colonial apartheid policy of Israel based on terror, harassment and discrimination."

Syria: "Hold Israel accountable for its gross and systematic violations of human rights. Its racist practices are based on forced displacement, demolition of homes, Judaization of Jerusalem and targeting of Islamic holy sites."

North Korea: "We are shocked and concerned by the mass human rights violations committed by Israel."

Human Rights Watch: "Call it what it is...unrelenting land grabs, home demolitions, unchecked settlement expansion—all as part of a policy to maintain the dominance of one racial group over another. That's apartheid, persecution and crimes against humanity."

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer:

"Madam President:  The United Nations was founded to prevent war. Yet today’s one-sided session, and the pre-determined investigation it proposes, will achieve the opposite — because they were the very purpose of this war.

The purpose of Hamas, backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, was to attack Israeli cities from within populated areas in Gaza, to incur civilian casualties, and exploit the suffering of their own people -- in order to delegitimize Israel, here at the UN, in international courts, and in the media.

A council for human rights ought to condemn what Hamas is doing.

Why, then, does today’s resolution fail to mention that Hamas started this war, firing over 4,000 rockets that deliberately targeted civilians across Israel? And that the rockets were launched from civilian areas, such that each attack constitutes a double war crime?

Why is there no mention that hundreds of millions of dollars of international aid money, donated to help Gaza’s poor population, were diverted by Hamas to build 250 miles of terror tunnels?

Why is there no mention that Hamas is recognized worldwide as a terrorist organization, and that its founding charter openly calls for the genocide of Jews?

Why is there no mention that on May 7th, at a rally in Gaza, a Hamas leader told Palestinians, quote, “We want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives”?

Why is there no mention that in the past two weeks, Jewish people worldwide, from London to LA, were threatened, chased and violently assaulted, by pro-Palestinian protesters?

Madam President, isn’t the UN supposed to defend victims of terrorism and racism?"