Palestine’s UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that the memory of the Holocaust has become “instrumentalised” in Israel to justify crimes against humanity, Al Jazeera reports.

Instead of the memory of the Nazi persecution of Jews “serving as an un-breachable barrier against the commission of such atrocities”, it is used as their justification, Mansour said.

“Something terrible is happening in Israel, something that has made justifying genocide, famine and gang rape mainstream ideology,” he told the UNSC meeting, which was called by Algeria over Israel’s August 10 attack on the al-Tabin School in Gaza City, which killed at least 100 people.

Mansour also told the UNSC that “Israel does not care about your condemnations. It dismisses your resolutions. It does not even listen to your debates […] Israel is a rogue state, with a rotten government due to the unbridled impunity it has enjoyed so far”.