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Jerusalem Post/ World News'Israel is trying to blow up the Middle East,' Russian FM Lavrov alleges at UNGA
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also accused Israel of attempting to bury “UN decisions on the creation of a Palestinian state.” Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference after addressing the 80th United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/EDUARDO MUNOZ)By JERUSALEM POST STAFFSEPTEMBER 28, 2025 01:56Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Israel of “trying to blow up the Middle East” during his speech on Saturday at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Israel's illegal use of force against the Palestinians and aggressive actions against Iran, Qatar, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq threatened to blow up the entire Middle East,” he alleged.
He also proceeded to condemn Hamas terror attacks on October 7, 2023, but stated that it didn’t provide “justification for the collective punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children are dying from bombing and starvation. Hospitals and schools are being destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are being left without shelter.”
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Russia also condemned both strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and on Qatar “at a time when negotiations with Hamas were being held there with the participation of American mediators.”
 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference after his talks with representatives of Arab League nations, in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2022. (credit: ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL VIA REUTERS)Russia thinks Israel wants to bury creation of a Palestinian stateLavrov explained how all this seems to be an Israeli attempt at “burying UN decisions on the creation of a Palestinian state.”According to Lavrov, the fact that Western countries recognized Palestine several months after they announced their intentions to do so shows that “they had hoped that by the time the general assembly session was convened, there would be nothing and no one left to recognize.”
“The situation requires urgent action to prevent such a scenario, which was strongly advocated by the participants at the high-level international conference on Palestine,” Lavrov warned. |
