Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has reacted to the “horrible views” that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres expressed at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, and called for his resignation.
Amb. Erdan described Guterres’ remarks as “shocking” for stating that the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum”.
And that the “Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
“The shocking speech by @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region.
“And that he views the massacre committed by Hamas in a distorted and immoral manner,” Erdan posted on X (formerly Twitter).
“His statement that, ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ expressed an understanding of terrorism and murder.
“It’s really unfathomabale [sic]. It’s sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!”
Erdan then demanded that Guterres resign, the first time an Israeli ambassador has called for a sitting UN secretary-general to step down, an Israeli official confirmed to Fox News Digital.
“The @UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN,” he wrote in a follow-up post.
“I call on him to resign immediately. There is no justification for talking to those who show compassion for most terrible atrocities committed against citizens of Israel. There are simply no words.”
During his speech, Guterres said the “situation in the Middle East is growing direr by the hour” and that the “war in Gaza is raging and risks spiralling throughout the region,” according to a transcript. (New York Times Post)
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