The Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, criticized the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, this Wednesday for stating that the Attacks by the Islamist group Hamas. in Israel they were awfulbut It didn’t happen out of nowhere..
Salvini considered Guterres’ comments “serious and unacceptable,” according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure also said that “There can be no justification for terrorism”.
Salvini, one of the two deputy prime ministers of the ultra-conservative government, met on Tuesday with a group of Israeli survivors and relatives of hostages detained by Hamas.
Guterres on Tuesday condemned the “acts of terror” from Hamas on October 7, but said that “It didn’t happen out of nowhere.”noting that the Palestinians were subdued”56 years of suffocating occupation”.
“They saw their land continually devoured by settlements and devastated by violence, their economy suffocated, their people displaced and their homes demolished,” he said.
“Yours hopes for a political solution for your situation they have been disappearing”added the former Portuguese prime minister at the opening of a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Israel called for Guterres to resign because it considered he justified terrorism and admitted that it will review relations with the United Nations.
Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack in Israel on October 7, which Israeli authorities say caused more than 1,400 dead.
The Palestinian group also kidnapped two hundred Israelis and foreigners and held them hostage in Gaza.
In retaliation, Israel declared war on Hamas and surrounded the Gaza Strip, a small territory with 2.3 million inhabitants controlled by the Islamist group since 2007.
The Israeli army has been bombing Gaza ever since, leaving more than 5,800 dead, according to Hamas.
Israel, the United States and the European Union describe Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Source: TSF
