GENEVA — Israel’s international minister mentioned on Tuesday that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was not match to go the worldwide physique, saying he had not performed sufficient to sentence militant group Hamas and was too near Iran.
His feedback, made at a press convention contained in the UN constructing in Geneva, signify an intensification of Israel’s criticism of the worldwide physique in the identical week that the latter mourned the killing of greater than 100 of its workers in Gaza.
“Guterres does not deserve to be the head of the United Nations,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen mentioned at a press convention in Geneva the place he’s assembly with the World Health Organization and International Red Cross leaders alongside the kinfolk of Israeli hostages.
“I think that Guterres like all the free nations should say clearly and loudly: free Gaza from Hamas. Everyone said Hamas is worst than ISIS. Why can he not say it?” he mentioned.
Guterres has criticized Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, saying that Hamas’ assaults on Israel don’t justify the collective punishment of Palestinians.
“[T]he grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he mentioned.
Guterres additionally famous that the Hamas assault “did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” — Reuters
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