“Hamas attacks do not take place in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” the UN Secretary-General said yesterday.
The Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdandeclared today that Israel will deny visas to United Nations representatives, following statements by its Secretary General, Antonio Guterreswho assured that the Hamas attack on October 7 “does not come from nowhere, but from 56 years of occupation.”
Erdán has emphasized that Israel has already begun to adopt this policy and has denied a visa to the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths. “It’s time to teach a lesson” to senior UN officials, Erdán said in an interview with Israeli army radio.
Guterres’ comments yesterday before the UN Security Council also drew condemnation from Dani Dayan, president of the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, who argued that “the October 7 mass murder of Jews by Hamas” was genocidal in its intentions and immensely cruel in his intention”. form.”
“Part of the reason it’s different from the Holocaust is that Jews today have a state and an army. We are not defenseless or at the mercy of others,” the top Yad Vashem official added.
According to him, after the attack on Israel by the Hamas group, “the sincerity of world leaders, intellectuals and influential people” at the international level like Guterres is now being tested. Given all this, the UN Secretary General “failed the test,” Dayan said.
Israeli bombings continue despite UN calls for a ceasefire or at least a ‘humanitarian pause’ to allow aid to flow in. At least 80 people were killed in the early morning hours.
A total of 5,791 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardments in Gaza since the war broke out. The Hamas attack in southern Israel left 1,400 dead.
Source: EITB
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