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Nikki Haley warned she would "take names" when she arrived at the UN in January last year
(File)United Nations: A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday criticized US Ambassador to the United Nations
Nikki Haley and her pledge to "take names" of countries that do not back Washington, saying she had not been appointed "the schoolmarm of
the world.Haley first warned she would "take names" when she arrived at the United Nations in January last year
She reiterated it ahead of a U.N
General Assembly vote in December when more than 120 countries voted for a resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition
of Jerusalem as Israel's capital."She threatened and she pressured and she used coercion and so on at the U.N., particularly by taking down
I don't think people appointed her the schoolmarm of the world," Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official at the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), told reporters at the United Nations.The US mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
Ashrawi's remarks.As the United States opened its new embassy in contested Jerusalem on Monday, dozens of Palestinians were killed in
gunfire and tear gas from Israeli troops on the Gaza-Israel border, the Palestinian Health Ministry said
Security Council met on Tuesday over the violence."Those who suggest that the Gaza violence has anything to do with the location of the
American embassy are sorely mistaken
Rather, the violence comes from those who reject the existence of the state of Israel in any location," Haley told the council.Israel and
the United States said Hamas - which rules Gaza - instigated the violence, an allegation denied by the militant group, which opposes
Israel's existence.Ashrawi rejected Haley's assessment that the opening of the US embassy was not linked to the Gaza border demonstrations
Palestinian leaders have called Monday's events a massacre, and the Israeli tactic of using live fire against the protesters has drawn
worldwide concern and condemnation."It's extremely difficult to find any relationship between reality and the words we hear coming out from
the American representative here," Ashrawi said. © Thomson Reuters 2018(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
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