NEW YORK (Dispatches) – Leaders addressing the General Debate of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday called for cessation of the Zionist regime’s brutal onslaught that has ravaged Palestine and West Asia for months.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the international community to intervene and stop Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, drawing a comparison to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a speech at the United Nations. 
“Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance of humanity 70 years ago, Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by the alliance of humanity,” Erdogan stated.
Before his address, he welcomed Palestine’s representative at the UN, describing it as a long-overdue achievement. He expressed hope that this step would lead to full UN membership for Palestine, urging other states to recognize Palestine and join “the right side of history.”
Erdogan also criticized the UN, stating that the organization is becoming increasingly ineffective, and said, “International peace and security are too important to be left to the arbitrariness of the privileged five.” 
Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for an end to the ongoing Israeli genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, labeling the regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war criminal.”
 “It is in this inequality […] that we find the logic of the mass destruction unleashed by the climate crisis and the logic of the bombs dropped by a criminal like Netanyahu on Gaza,” Petro said.
“When Gaza dies, all of humanity will die. Today we have 20,000 dead children,” he added.
Petro hit out at the current world order which allows Israel to bomb Gaza and Lebanon and imposes unilateral sanctions on others.
“The powerful global oligarchy allows bombs to be dropped on Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan, or allows the economic blockade of rebellious countries that do not fit into its domain, such as Cuba and Venezuela,” he said.
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, also condemned Israeli ‘acts of terrorism’ and attacks on journalists, asking, ‘How can we interpret this as anything other than brutal attempts to prevent the world from knowing about the crimes taking place?’ 
UNGA President Philemon Yang noted the various conflicts raging from West Asia to Ukraine, and from Haiti to South Sudan. 
“I call for an immediate ceasefire in all these conflict settings,” he said, adding that the people of Gaza “have been caught in a spiraling cycle of conflict and retribution” for nearly a year.
Delivering his 2024 report on the UN’s work ahead of the General Debate, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that world leaders are gathering in the shadow of raging conflicts in Gaza.
King Abdullah II of Jordan told the General Debate that “now is the time to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people. It is the moral duty of the international community to establish a protection mechanism for them across the occupied territories.”
“Impunity gathers force. Left unchecked, it gains momentum,” he said, noting that the world is watching Gaza, “and history will watch us by the courage we show.”
In his first address to the General Assembly, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called the Zionist regime out on its genocidal campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon. “Israel’s state terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered,” he said. “Responsibility for all consequences will be borne by those governments who have thwarted all global efforts to end this horrific catastrophe.”
Qatar’s emir criticized the international community for failing Palestine and for being content with “illusions of making peace” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Every year I stand on this podium and I begin by talking about the Palestinian cause, the absence of justice, the perils of believing that it can be neglected, and the illusions of making peace without a just solution to the Palestinian cause,” Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad said.
“There are those who are tempted by the possibility of marginalizing this issue to get rid of its burden, but the Palestinian cause is resistant to marginalization because it’s an issue of indigenous people on their own land, a people who are subjected to a settler-colonial occupation,” he added.