Photo Credit: UN photo / Rick Bajornas
Danny Danon, Permanent Israeli Representative to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council on Oct. 18, 2017

Israel co-sponsored a United Nations resolution on Tuesday with Saudi Arabia for the first time ever.

The resolution, proposed at the UN Human Rights Committee, condemned the Syrian government for human rights abuses.

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“The Assad regime, with full support from Iran, has been slaughtering its people mercilessly and with incomprehensible cruelty for years,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon. “Israel, which for years has been providing humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians hurt by these atrocities, stands together with the international community against this murderous regime.”

Saudi Ambassador to the UN Abdallah al-Mouallimi condemned “the grave deterioration in the state of human rights in Syria, including indiscriminate killing and intentional attacks against civilians, which caused the death of over 400,000 people, including 17,000 children.”

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.