Israel seeks resignation of UN Secretary General over remarks regarding Hamas
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UN chief Antonio Guterres told a Security Council meeting that Hamas did not attack Israel ‘unprovoked’. Israel was angered by his comment and has demanded resignation and apology from the UN chief.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attended the Security Council ministerial meeting. He was to meet Guterres at the UN headquarters on Tuesday afternoon. Cohen canceled his meeting with the UN Secretary General and accused him of tolerating and justifying terrorism.
The UN chief said it is also important to recognize that the attacks carried out by Hamas were not unprovoked. The people of Palestine have been facing suffocating occupation for 56 years.
“They have seen their land continually annexed by (Jewish) settlements and plagued by violence,” Guterres said. Their economy collapsed. Their people were displaced and their houses demolished. “Their hopes for a political solution to their plight are vanishing.”
“But the grievances of the Palestinians cannot be justified by Hamas’s horrific attacks,” he said. And those horrific attacks cannot justify collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
In a post on the social media platform ‘X’, Cohen said he “will not meet the UN Secretary General. After the “Massacre of October Seven”, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped off the face of the earth.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, later said, “Mr. Secretary-General, you have lost all morality and impartiality. When you say these terrible words that these heinous attacks are not unprovoked, you are tolerating terrorism and by tolerating terrorism you are justifying terrorism.” He said, “I think the general secretary should resign. We demand an apology from him.
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