REUTERS/Mike Segar Acquire Licensing RightsUNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Israel's United Nations envoy showed the 193-member General Assembly a brief video on Thursday that he said showed a Hamas fighter trying to decapitate a man with a garden tool during the Palestinian militants' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
At each seat in the hall at United Nations headquarters, Israeli diplomats placed a print out of a QR code with the title "Free Gaza from Hamas, scan to see Hamas' atrocities".
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for the attack that killed 1,400 people.
Israel has struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege on the enclave of 2.3 million people and is preparing a ground invasion.
Arguing for a ceasefire, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said certain nations, which he did not name, were applying a clear double standard.
Persons:
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