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Pakistan called an urgent debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council over Israel’s strike on Hamas terror chiefs in Qatar. On cue, brutal regimes such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China lined up to bash the Jewish state. Then UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer took the floor to tell the truth about Qatar.
Highlights from the U.N. Human Rights Council debate:
Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights: “The Secretary-General has pointed out that Israel’s action was a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.”
Qatar: “This attack represents a violent, flagrant violation of international humanitarian law by targeting a purely civilian area, amounting to state terrorism.”
Islamic Republic of Iran: “An evil entity has been allowed to destroy global security and order.”
Venezuela: “This aggression is an act of state terrorism.”
Russia: “The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on a residential district. The grave violation of the sovereignty of state and the serious threat to innocent citizens can have no justification.”
China: “China strongly calls upon Israel to earnestly observe the international human rights law.”
UNHRC Chair: “Thank you. I call upon United Nations Watch.”
Hillel Neuer, UN Watch: “The High Commissioner quoted the Secretary-General. But what changed since 2011?
When the U.S. killed Bin Laden, who was living in a million-dollar compound close to Pakistan’s top military academy, the UN chief at the time celebrated that, quote: ‘Justice has been done to such a mastermind of international terrorism.’
Why has the UN now changed its position?
To understand this double standard we need only recall what Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir said long before today’s debate, in 2018. Quote: ‘The Qataris since the mid-1990s have been sponsoring radicals. They’ve been inciting people. They’ve become a base for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood which begot us Tafkir wal-Hijra, which begot al-Qaeda.’
‘The Qataris allow their senior religious clerics to go on TV and justify suicide bombings. The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists. The head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula entered Saudi Arabia on a Qatari passport. We captured al-Qaeda types coming with Qatari passports. The Qataris know this. The Americans know this. The world knows this.’
Quote: ‘The Qataris pay ransom to terrorist groups including $500 million to Hezbollah in Iraq, $50 million to Qassem Soleimani.’
‘The Qataris use their media platforms to spread hate. The Qataris send weapons to al-Qaeda militias in Libya. There’s a list of terror financiers that the UN puts out and a number of them are living openly in Qatar raising money and giving it to bad people. Why do the Qataris get away with it?’
All of this from the Saudi Foreign Minister.
Mr. President, is not the accuser here the true enabler of terrorism?”
Pakistan called an urgent U.N. debate over Israel’s strike on Hamas terror chiefs in Qatar.
On cue, brutal regimes such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela, Russia & China lined up to bash the Jewish state.
Then Hillel Neuer took the floor to tell the truth about Qatar: pic.twitter.com/925mxEeGOK
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) September 22, 2025
