Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Following the Terror Attack
in Toulouse, France Today (Monday), 19.3.12

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

“Today we had a savage crime in France that gunned down French Jews, among
them children. It’s too early to say what the precise background for this
act of murder is, but I think that we can’t rule out that there was a strong
murderous anti-Semitic motive here. I’m sure that Nicolas Sarkozy, the
President of France, and his government will do their utmost to find the
killer and we, in Israel will do everything to help them in this task.

I haven’t heard yet a condemnation from any of the UN bodies but I have
heard that one such body, the UN Human Rights Council, invited on this very
day a senior representative of Hamas – on this day, when we had the savage
murder, they chose to invite a member of Hamas. This particular individual
condemned the United States for disposing of the arch-murderer Bin Laden,
and he represents an organization that indiscriminately targets children and
grown-ups, and women and men. Innocents - is their special favorite target.
They kill Jews anywhere – that’s their constitution – kill Jews wherever you
find them – that’s what they do. And this is what the Human Rights Council
decided to do today – to bring in to its quarters a member of Hamas. So I
have one thing to say to the UN Human Rights Council: What do you have to do
with human rights? You should be ashamed of yourselves.”