Somalia GRILLS Israel at UN: Somalia Calls Israel’s Somaliland Move a 'Threat to Global Security’

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Tensions are escalating at the United Nations as Somalia denounces Israel’s decision to recognise Somaliland as an independent state. In a strongly worded letter to the UN Security Council, Somalia called the move a “direct and grave threat to international peace and security” and a violation of its sovereignty. Somali officials warn the recognition could destabilise the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region, while also expressing alarm over reports suggesting the decision could be used as a pretext for the forced relocation of Palestinians to Northwestern Somalia. With diplomatic pressure mounting, the dispute is rapidly becoming a major flashpoint in regional and international politics.#SomaliaVsIsrael #SomalilandRecognition #UNSecurityCouncil #HornOfAfricaTensions #IsraelSomaliland #SomaliaSovereignty #InternationalSecurity #BreakingNews #SomaliaNews #MiddleEastAfrica #RegionalStability #GlobalDiplomacy #SomaliaUN #IsraelForeignPolicy #SomalilandCrisis #PeaceAndSecurity #UNNews #DiplomaticCrisis

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00:00to directly address the claims made by the representative of Israel.

00:04Actions of occupying power in Palestine and indeed in the broader region are well documented.

00:11I'm shocked to listen to the outrageous comments from the Israeli representative.

00:16Talk about genocide, it's Israel that's committed on our own eyes every day.

00:23It killed more than 70,000 people, civilians, including children, women, elderly, doctors, and other health workers, and patients in hospitals.

00:34The accused Somalia of committing genocide is just ridiculous and it's unbelievable.

00:40Somalia is one country, one people, one religion.

00:44Somalia had a civil war, and the civil war has its own effects.

00:48Mr. President, forgive me again the floor.

00:52Before proceeding further, I want to make additional remarks in my capacity as a Somali representative of Somalia

01:01to directly address the claims made by the representative of Israel who spoke before me.

01:08I will make three points, Excellency.

01:10First, actions of occupying power in Palestine and indeed in the broader region are well documented.

01:20These actions constitute clear violations of international law.

01:24What we see today, and time and time again, are actors to terrorize civilian populations and crimes against humanity

01:33and force displacement of a whole community, starvation of innocent people, and killing and maiming hundreds of thousands.

01:44And someone doing all these things are lecturing us today what they call genocide and things like that.

01:52I'm shocked to listen to the outrageous comments from the Israeli representative.

01:57If we want to talk about genocide, it's Israel that's committing on our own eyes every day.

02:07He represents a government that killed more than 70,000 people, civilians, including children, women, elderly, doctors,

02:15and other health workers, and patients in hospitals, destroying infrastructures, deliberately starving people of Gaza.

02:27To come before us, esteemed counsel, and accuse Somali of committing genocide is just ridiculous and unbelievable.

02:37The other thing that I want to add is he has no idea what Somali is and where Somalis are and what Somali stands for.

02:46I think the history is a selective history that he has just generated on his own mind.

02:53Let me give you some lessons on this.

02:55There is a systematic, it's a troubling, Somalia is one country, one people, one religion,

03:04that fought together for independence from the colonial.

03:11And Somalia is again one that's fighting terrorist organizations in the Horn of Africa as one group, one religion, one ethnic group.

03:22And then when you say the Somaliland, the Somaliland that was a British Somaliland,

03:28it was two regions, the northeast region and northwest region.

03:32And now northeast region is part of which is 45% of the land and the population are part of the federal government of Somalia.

03:41What we're talking about is northwest, which is also having a problem.

03:46Half of northwest is now all the region which is close to the Djibouti border.

03:51And they are totally against what the Issaac people, that you say, Issaac genocide.

03:56And there was no such genocide in Somalia that took place.

04:01Somalia had a civil war and the civil war has its own effects.

04:05And we believe the civil war was also financed from outside.

04:09So to come to this place and lecture us humanity and genocide and human rights.

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