Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, criticized the departure of some country representatives from a session of the UN General Assembly during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, the Israeli prime minister.

He wrote on the social media platform “X”: “It’s unfortunate to see all of them leaving the session in protest of Israel.”

The U.S. ambassador, referring to the presence of some of these same envoys at the General Assembly session during Massoud Pezeshkian’s speech, added: “Yesterday, the number of those who left the session in protest at Iran wasn’t even close to this number; that too after the Islamic Republic murdered about 40,000 of its own people with gunfire.”