Tracking State Reactions to Israel's May 26 attack on Rafah 🧵
Ireland 🇮🇪
Belgium 🇧🇪
Ireland 🇮🇪
Germany 🇩🇪
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Spain 🇪🇸
Palestine 🇵🇸
Qatar 🇶🇦
Japan 🇯🇵
Oman 🇴🇲
Jordan 🇯🇴
Yemen 🇾🇪
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
France 🇫🇷
Jordan 🇯🇴
Malaysia 🇲🇾
Palestine 🇵🇸
UAE 🇦🇪
Kuwait 🇰🇼
Slovenia 🇸🇮
Jordan 🇯🇴
Egypt 🇪🇬
Palestine 🇵🇸
Germany 🇩🇪
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Maldives 🇲🇻
Palestine 🇵🇸
Bahrain 🇧🇭
Colombia 🇨🇴
Afghanistan 🇦🇫
USA 🇺🇸
Chile 🇨🇱
Portugal 🇵🇹
Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Montenegro 🇲🇪
Pakistan 🇵🇰
Mexico 🇲🇽
Jordan 🇯🇴
Canada 🇨🇦
Canada 🇨🇦
Bolivia 🇧🇴
Iraq 🇮🇶
Israel 🇮🇱
Israel 🇮🇱
New Zealand 🇳🇿
Indonesia 🇮🇩
Brazil 🇧🇷
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Indonesia 🇮🇩
Peru 🇵🇪
UK 🇬🇧
Estonia 🇪🇪
Finland 🇫🇮
(via RT)
Finland 🇫🇮
Denmark 🇩🇰
South Africa 🇿🇦
France 🇫🇷
Israel 🇮🇱
France 🇫🇷
Iceland 🇮🇸
USA 🇺🇸
(As of min 44:07)
USA 🇺🇸
Israel 🇮🇱
Israel 🇮🇱
Israel 🇮🇱
Israel 🇮🇱
Israel 🇮🇱
Morocco 🇲🇦
France 🇫🇷
Algeria 🇩🇿
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
USA 🇺🇸
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Oman 🇴🇲
Qatar 🇶🇦
Lithuania 🇱🇹
(Through RT)
Jordan 🇯🇴
China 🇨🇳
Jordan 🇯🇴
Kuwait 🇰🇼
Qatar 🇶🇦
(Translation)
USA 🇺🇸
(at 1:36:00)
"heartbroken and horrified" by Rafah attack
"do more to protect innocent Palestinian lives" and conduct an investigation
"Israel has a right to defend itself" but has "obligations to protect civilians"
"Israel must do more"
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Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
must "secure a ceasefire"
Rafah operation "exacerbated situation"
There are "breaches of IL" in Rafah
"condemns" Rafah attack. IHL must be complied. "Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects"
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Switzerland 🇨🇭
"outraged" by the events. "condemn" Hamas' indiscriminate attacks. "strongly condemns" the Israeli strike in Rafah.
IHL requires parties to distinguish civilian/military objects; take precautions in attack
"opposition" to Rafah operation
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France 🇫🇷
"calls for a ceasefire" and expresses "opposition to Israeli operation in Rafah" - operation must end "without delay". Expresses "indignation" with Rafah attack. Israel must "immediately halt its military offensive". Condemns Oct 7 and rockets
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Russia 🇷🇺
"Bloody military operation of 7 months"
"Israel continues to indiscriminately bomb" Rafah despite the ICJ/UNSC
Rafah "condemned by absolute majority of intl community"
"we condemn" Rafah "war crimes". Israel must comply with IHL
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Bolivia 🇧🇴
Japan 🇯🇵
"unimaginable suffering", "starvation and disease on the rise", "no safe space in Gaza".
"Opposes full scale military operation in Gaza"
Calls for ceasefire
(does not specifically refer to the May 26 attack)
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Slovenia 🇸🇮
rejects military operations in Gaza
"our worst fears [re Rafah] have come true" due to the attack.
"Firmly condemns the strike on displaced persons in Rafah"
Rafah strike not an isolated event. Violations not being investigated
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Ecuador 🇪🇨
"Images [from Rafah attack] are difficult to forget", "time to put an end to the cycle of violence"
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Guyana 🇬🇾
"Displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents were set on fire after Israeli airstrikes"
"there is no safe place in Gaza". Calls for swift independent int'l investigation.
"no justification for killing of innocent civilians"
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China 🇨🇳
"condemns bombing of IDP in Gaza"
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South Korea 🇰🇷
"Israel claims that the killing of dozens of civilians in tents ... was a tragic mistake, but when such instances are repeated again and again... it would be difficult to regard them as just mistakes"
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UK 🇬🇧
"appalled by the deeply distressing scenes emerging from Rafah following Israeli airstrikes"
"call on Israel to launch swift comprehensive and transparent investigation"
"do not support" military operation in Rafah without a humanitarian plan
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Algeria 🇩🇿
"Haunting images from Gaza flood our screens"
"If they don't steer the spirit of humanity in all of us then words will be useless"
Israel "continues to cover up murders and commit what they say are tragic mistakes"
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Mozambique 🇲🇿
Resulting global outrage and condemnation [of Rafah attack] further enhances Israel's int'l isolation.
"condemn Rafah operation"
Israeli offensive "blatant violation of all laws of war"
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Palestine 🇵🇸
instead of halting its offensive Israel "has bombed people it has displaced". It is unbearable "to hold a beheaded child in your arms". "Unbearable human suffering". "There is no red line imposed by legality that Israel has not crossed"
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Israel 🇮🇱
Rafah attack was a "precise strike", done with "extensive verification to avoid civilian casualties". "Fire broke out due to secondary explosions from terror munitions". "It is Hamas who must be held accountable".
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UAE 🇦🇪
(on behalf of Arab Group)
The Rafah attacks are "unspeakable" and require "special condemnation". "The heinous massacre ... is merely the latest episode in this series of systematic war crimes against Palestinian people". Israel has defied IL
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Greece 🇬🇷
France 🇫🇷
(Already summarised this one above, but putting it here since it is easier to access than finding it in a 2 hour long live feed of the UNSC meeting)
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