Israel condemned the “dangerous duplicity” of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, who addressed the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, in which he accused Israel of a litany of crimes, including occupation, using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war and aggression against holy sites in the Middle East.

“In his speech addressing the U.N. General Assembly, he wore a ‘key’ pin—an unmistakable symbol of his goal of erasing Israel,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted on X, which Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, then reposted.

The key is a prominent symbol for Palestinians, representing the so-called “right of return” to homes and lands they abandoned during the War of Independence that began in May 1948, after the modern-day State of Israel was established,

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