As pressure builds on Secretary General Antonio Guterres over his comments at yesterday's security council, Israel's envoy to the UN said it was 'time to teach them a lesson'.
Israel is refusing to grant visas to United Nations representatives after the organisation’s chief claimed the Hamas attacks ‘didn’t happen in a vacuum’.
At a high-level meeting of the 15-member Security Council in New York, Mr Guterres claimed the 1,400 murders did not happen ‘in a vacuum’. But Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, said Mr Guterres’ council address meant he was ‘not fit’ to lead the body. Israeli airstrikes have destroyed large swathes of the Gaza Strip, leaving at least 6,500 Palestinians killed, including over 2,700 children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
‘We are clear that there is and can be no justification for Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack which was driven by hatred and ideology.’
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