Israel's UN ambassador pins yellow star to chest

Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has vowed to wear a yellow star until the UN Security Council condemns "the atrocities of Hamas" and demands the "immediate release" of hostages.

The UN Security Council has failed to pass a series of resolutions addressing the situation in Israel and Gaza because of a lack of consensus.

The Nazis forced Jews to wear the yellow Star of David badge in territories they occupied, as part of a system of persecution.

Today, pinning on the star is seen as a way of evoking the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany and its allies murdered approximately six million Jewish men, women and children.