Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister has blasted developed countries’ “double standards and continued resourcing” of Israel’s “violations of international law” in a speech to the UN General Assembly, Al Jazeera reports.

“Only someone absolutely bereft of humanity would think that it is lawful and just, and even godly, to respond to atrocities committed on one awful day of terror by, in turn, committing atrocities after atrocities,” Amery Browne told the annual meeting of world leaders in New York.

Browne also questioned how some countries appeared to be glossing over the killing of innocent civilians including women, children and UN staff in Gaza and Lebanon, stating: “International law is not a tool of mere convenience to be muted for friends and trumpeted against enemies.”

“This is not being done in secret. The entire world is watching and the Global South in, particular, is appalled,” he said.