Israel declared UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres “persona non grata” on Wednesday, banning him from getting into the nation for his failure to “unequivocally condemn” Iran‘s large missile assault on Israel.
“Anybody who can’t unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous assault on Israel doesn’t should step foot on Israeli soil,” Israel’s overseas minister Israel Katz mentioned in an announcement.
“It is a secretary-general who has but to denounce the bloodbath and sexual atrocities dedicated by Hamas murderers on October 7, nor has he led any efforts to declare them a terrorist group,” the overseas minister added.
Katz additional accused Guterres of being an “anti-Israel secretary-general who lends help to terrorists, rapists, and murderers.” Katz added that Guterres, who he claimed supported “the murderers of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and now Iran, the mothership of worldwide terror, can be remembered as a stain on the historical past of the UN for generations to come back”.
In response to Iran’s missile assault on Israel late Tuesday, Guterres denounced the “broadening battle within the Middle East” and criticized the “escalation after escalation” within the area. He pressed on the pressing want for a ceasefire, saying, “This should cease. We completely want a ceasefire.”
Israel has been a vocal critic of the UN, with relations between the state and the worldwide group deteriorating additional following the Hamas assaults on October 7.
Guterres has persistently known as for a ceasefire to finish the violence in each Gaza and Lebanon.
