By Deutsche Welle
02 Oct 2024, 10:45 AM EDT
Israel declared UN Secretary General António Guterres “persona non grata” on Wednesday (10/2/2024)for not “unequivocally” condemning Iran’s ballistic attack on Israeli territory.
“Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s atrocious attack on Israel does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil.. “This is an anti-Israel secretary general, who supports terrorists, rapists and murderers,” Katz warned in the statement in which he made the announcement.
Last night, minutes after the end of Iran’s attack on Israel, Guterres condemned “the growth of the conflict in the Middle East with one escalation after another” and reiterated the need for a ceasefire. “This has to stop. “We absolutely need a ceasefire,” he wrote without directly mentioning Iran.
Condemnation of the October 7 attack
Minister Katz also accused the UN leader of not having denounced the atrocities of Hamas during the multiple attack on October 7 and “the sexual atrocities committed” by its militiamen.
In addition, On October 24, 2023, Gutereres in a session of the UN Security Council condemned the attack by the Palestinian group which left 1,200 dead and 251 kidnapped, but clarified that these actions did not come from nowhere but after decades of occupation. Those statements, at the time, also caused outrage in Israel.
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