Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Gilad Erdan, asked Secretary General António Guterres on Tuesday to resign “immediately” after stating that the Hamas attacks “did not come out of nowhere.”
“The Secretary General of the UN, who is sympathetic to the campaign of mass murder of children, women and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I ask him to resign immediately,” the diplomat wrote on platform Twitter).
He @UNITED NATIONS The Secretary-General, who shows sympathy for the campaign of mass murder of children, women and the elderly, is unfit to lead the UN.
I ask you to resign immediately.
There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the majority…
– Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 24, 2023
“There is no justification or point in speaking 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,” he added.
Moments earlier, at the opening of the Security Council meeting, Guterres unequivocally condemned the “unprecedented” “acts of terror” on October 7 perpetrated by the Islamist group Hamas in Israel, stressing that “nothing can justify the murder , the attack and the deliberate kidnapping of civilians”.
However, the UN Secretary General admitted that it is “important to recognize” that the attacks by the Islamist group Hamas “did not come out of nowhere,” stressing that the Palestinian people “were subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
“They have seen their land continually devoured by settlements and devastated by violence; their economy has been suffocated; their people have been displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their situation have been fading,” Guterres continued.
The UN leader stressed, however, that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the terrible attacks by Hamas,” further stressing that “these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Source: TSF
