Pedro Neto, executive director of Amnesty International in Portugal, praises António Guterres, who suggested that Israel’s “suffocating occupation” 56 years ago led to the Hamas attack on October 7. These statements led Israel to call for Guterres’ resignation. In it TSF ForumPedro Neto highlights the bravery of the UN Secretary General.
“The attack on civilians, in any form or by whoever, is what should be at the center of the debate at this moment. António Guterres was brave and said that things are as they are,” he argues. Pedro Neto.
The executive director of Amnesty International in Portugal admits that he does not know António Guterres personally, but he has no doubts: “I do not believe that he does not vehemently condemn the attack and all the acts of terrorism that Hamas committed and has committed and, in the same way , condemns what have been human rights abuses and Israel’s Apartheid system.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Gilad Erdan, asked Secretary General António Guterres this Wednesday 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).
“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
