“We will certainly have to evaluate our relations with the UN. We have been complaining for a long time,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan told Lusa in New York when asked about the future of relations between Israel and the United Nations after they asked Guterres to resign.
“After what the leader of this organization (Guterres) just said this morning, in support of terrorism, there is no other way to explain this. It is clear that our government will need to reevaluate relations with the UN and its employees stationed in our region.”the diplomatic representative added.
Shortly before, Erdan had asked Guterres to resign “immediately,” accusing the UN leader of being “partisan” regarding the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, hostilities that are deeply destabilizing the Middle East region.
Guterres’ resignation was later supported by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who canceled a planned meeting with the UN Secretary General for today.
The Israeli government’s outrage was expressed at the opening of a UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, when Guterres unequivocally condemned the October 7 “unprecedented” and “acts of terror” committed by Hamas in Israel committed, but admitted that it was “important to recognize” that the Islamist group’s attacks “did not come out of nowhere”, stressing that the Palestinian people “were subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation”.
“They have seen their lands continually devoured by settlements and ravaged by violence; their economy has been suppressed; their people displaced and their homes destroyed. Their hope for a political solution to their situation has faded,” he continued Guterres. the same intervention.
However, the UN leader stressed that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify Hamas’ terrible attacks,” further emphasizing that “these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Source: DN
