Foreign ambassadors teared up at the Nova site: "It is inconceivable"

"Now I truly understand what you went through on October 7. It is inconceivable," said the Gambian ambassador to the UN institutions in Geneva, Muhammadou Kah, after visiting the Nova site.

Kah is one of six ambassadors from countries at the UN institutions in Geneva who arrived this week for a visit to Israel, as part of the Foreign Ministry's effort to expose the world to what Israel has endured over the last three years. The delegation includes representatives from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, including Gambia, Zambia, Ethiopia, Panama, Fiji, and Mongolia.

Ambassador Kah, who chairs several UN committees in the field of technology, visited a technology hub in Sderot specializing in disaster response. "There are life-saving tools here, such as VR that simulates earthquakes. I want to bring this to the UN," he said. As a Muslim, Kah also used the visit to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The ambassador of Fiji to Geneva, Laishia Tawake, stated:

"I am calling the Prime Minister of Fiji now and asking him to bring engineers from Fiji to help the kibbutzim in the Gaza envelope after what you went through. You give us help, but I want my nation to give to you."

Israel's ambassador to the UN institutions in Geneva, veteran diplomat Daniel Meron, led the delegation, which visited the Gaza envelope, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the Nova memorial site, the memorial site in Sderot, the North, Tel Aviv, and the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

Ambassador Daniel Meron noted that the visit had two emotional highlights:

1. At the Nova memorial site, where a survivor named Mazal, a single mother of Ethiopian descent, recounted how she and others survived by pretending to be dead.

2. At a meeting with the 'Save a Child's Heart' organization, where they saw children from their own countries who underwent life-saving heart surgeries in Israel and met doctors from Ethiopia and Zambia training in Israel through MASHAV, Israel's national aid agency.

"The ambassadors said that now they understand what October 7 is, likening it to the 9/11 attack. They were amazed by the coexistence where Jews and Arabs sit together in cafes in Jaffa, and by the resilience of the young people," Meron added. "I felt their opinions about Israel changed drastically. While it is not certain that all their countries will vote with Israel at the UN, in discussions and in highlighting Israel's contribution, they are now fully with us."