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Israel has said it will start denying UN officials Visas sighting an unfair treatment by the international body. In a recent meeting, a row broke out in New York on Tuesday night, as the UN Security Council met to discuss the Israel-Gaza war.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the Hamas attacks on 7 October – in which more than 1,400 people were killed – did not occur “in a vacuum”. He pointed to “56 years of occupation” by Israel of the Palestinians.
The comments drew an angry response from Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen. He said there can be “no cause for such a massacre”. “In what world do you live?” he asked Guterres -later saying he would cancel his meeting with the UN chief.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, called on Guterres to resign, saying he “is not fit to lead the UN”
Guterres later highlighted other parts of his speech via a writing on X. He said that the “grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas”. And that “horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”
Israel now says it will deny visas to UN officials. Erdan also told Israeli radio that Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, had already been denied a visa. “The time has come to teach them a lesson,” Erdan reportedly said.
“The UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I call on him to resign immediately,” Erdan posted on X. “There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words.”
Erdan also said the remarks were “horrible,” and “completely disconnected from the reality in our region.”
“It’s sad that a person with such views is the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust,” he said. “It’s really unfathomable.”
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