On October 31, 2016, the chair of a UN committee, created in 1968 specifically for the purpose of condemning Israel on a year-round basis, deplored Israel's self-defense from Palestinian terror attacks as "violence confronting" Palestinians. Committee Chair Amrith Rohan Perera of Sri Lanka made his comment while presenting a report of the so-called "Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories" to the General Assembly's Fourth Committee (a committee of the whole comprised of all 193 UN member states).
In his words:
"[A]s of mid-October, 83 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank... Many of these incidents involved attacks reported to have been perpetrated by young Palestinians... These numbers speak for themselves and illustrate the scale of the violence confronted on a daily basis by Palestinian men, women, and children."
The scale of violence confronted by Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks went unmentioned.