You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 27th of October.

At a heated United Nations debate,

Israel's ambassador says the world must not ignore the atrocities carried out by Hamas.

Any call for a ceasefire is not an attempt at peace.

It is an attempt to tie Israel's hands, preventing us from eliminating a huge threat to our citizens.

The Palestinian ambassador calls for justice, not vengeance.

Nothing can justify war crimes, crime against humanity and genocide.

Nothing can justify the killing of a single Palestinian joy.

We'll hear from the UN and get the latest on the conflict.

Also in the podcast, a gunman who killed 18 people in the US state of Maine is still on the run.

And the Taliban in Afghanistan release a prominent advocate of girls education after months in jail.

For more than 75 years, disputes between Israelis and Palestinians

have proved impossible to reconcile with rival world powers taking opposing sides.

Global divisions have only intensified following the Hamas atrocity of the 7th of October,

and the devastating Israeli response.

And those disagreements have been on display at an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York,

which was debating whether to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

I corresponded at the UN Nettafik has this report.

As the session began, the president of the General Assembly urged members not to use it to fan the flames of division

and revenge, but to unify to save lives and end the violence.

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