Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Calls for Guterres to Resign
The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has called on the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to resign after he attempted to explain the reasons behind the Hamas attack on Israel.
"The Secretary-General, who sympathizes with a campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is unfit to lead the UN. I urge him to resign immediately. There is no justification or sense in speaking with those who show empathy for the most heinous atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words," wrote the Israeli Ambassador to the UN.
Following UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' attempts to elucidate the motives behind the Hamas attacks on Israel during a UN Security Council meeting on Israel and Hamas, Israel's representative at the UN, Gilad Erdan, described Guterres' words as "shocking," "horrifying," and "completely detached from the reality of our region."
Specifically, Guterres stated that "the Hamas attacks did not happen in a vacuum," and that "the Palestinian people have endured 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land constantly devoured by settlements and have suffered from violence; their economy is stifled, their people displaced, and their homes destroyed. Their hopes for a political resolution to their situation are fading."
Guterres added that "the dissatisfaction of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific Hamas attacks." Furthermore, these horrifying attacks cannot justify the "collective punishment of the Palestinian people."
After these controversial statements by the UN Secretary-General, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, stated that "his comments... serve as a justification for terrorism and murder."
"It is sad that a person with such views leads an organization that emerged after the Holocaust," Erdan added.
Recall that dozens of armed Palestinian terrorists from Gaza infiltrated Israel on the morning of Saturday, October 7, after a two-hour mass rocket attack. They took hostages and opened fire on civilian residents from vehicles, prompting the Israel Defence Forces to respond with an attack on the Gaza Strip and the mobilization of reserve battalions.
The Prime Minister of Israel declared a "state of war," which continues in the country to this day.