Israel’s overseas minister stated Saturday the United Nations had turn out to be an “anti-Israeli body” underneath Antonio Guterres, after the UN chief known as for a ceasefire on a go to to Gaza’s border.
International outrage over the heavy civilian toll and humanitarian disaster in Gaza, the place Israel battles Hamas fighters, has additional worsened the lengthy strained ties between Israel and the world physique.
“Under his (Guterres’s) leadership, the UN has become an anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli body that shelters and emboldens terror,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz stated on social media platform X.
The high Israeli diplomat criticised Guterres, who Katz stated “stood today on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing and blamed Israel for the humanitarian situation in Gaza”, claiming as an alternative that Hamas fighters “plunder” support.
Katz, whose authorities has accused workers on the UN company for Palestinian refugees of involvement in Hamas’s October 7 assault that triggered the battle, additionally stated Guterres spoke “without calling for the immediate, unconditional release of all Israeli hostages”.
But in Rafah, the UN chief stated: “In the Ramadan spirit of compassion, it is also time for the immediate release of all hostages” nonetheless held by militants in Gaza.
Source: www.anews.com.tr