Kofi Annan noted Israeli suffering in a speech on the United Nations’ day of solidarity with the Palestinians. “In expressing solidarity with them, I do not ignore the suffering of the people of Israel. They remain insecure and terrorized,” the U.N. secretary-general told the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Monday.
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