‘Growing Isolation’ as 77 Delegations Walk Out of Netanyahu’s UN Speech. Barbaric Terrorist said, "Israel Didn't Commit Genocide. Israel Prevented Genocide!"

From [HERE] Dozens of delegations have left the UN General Assembly hall shortly before Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, amid growing international isolation of the occupying regime.

Footage which went viral on social media showed most delegations leaving the UN hall as Netanyahu took the podium on Thursday, while the premier appeared visibly uncomfortable, amid protesters’ slogans.

Israeli media reports said representatives of 77 countries were absent during Netanyahu’s address to the UNGA, with several delegations leaving shortly before it began, while others had not been seated from the beginning.

The mass walkout drew significant attention in the Israeli media, with Channel 14 describing it as “a spit in Israel’s face”, while Yedioth Ahronoth called it “the dramatic protest”.

Haaretz, meanwhile, slammed Netanyahu’s speech as repetitive and dull, saying it was mainly aimed at his right-wing base and US President Donald Trump, amid what it described as growing international isolation for the Israeli premier.

Meanwhile, the American daily newspaper The Washington Post described the departure as part of a “fierce global backlash” against Israeli crimes, while Britain’s Independent noted that Netanyahu was speaking to a single audience anyway.

The Guardian noted that Netanyahu vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza while delegations left the hall in protest.

Netanyahu’s speech took place as protesters were gathered outside the UN headquarters in New York, calling for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 74,000 Palestinians and injured more than 175,000.

‘Netanyahu’s speech repetition of lies’

During his speech, Netanyahu denied that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, taking aim at one of his most high-profile US critics, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has called for the execution of the arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over genocidal war crimes.

“To all those spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the antisemitic mayor of New York, I say this: Shame on you!” Netanyahu said.

“Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You try to silence me. Well, you can’t silence me,” Netanyahu added.

In response, Mamdani said Netanyahu’s “lies” in his speech cannot erase the ICC arrest warrant issued for him.

“As he has done time and again, prime minister Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitize his genocide of Palestinians," Mamdani said in a statement on Thursday.

"Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the mayor stressed.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant over war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in November 2024. [MORE]