António Guterres
A spokesman for the secretary-general told JNS that António Guterres “has called for an end to the occupation, and he has called for the end of settlements.”
The secretary-general has taken a consistently anti-Israel approach since Oct. 7.
“Won’t even say ‘Hamas.’ Won’t condemn the terror group that took Hersh, held him hostage for 330 days and murdered him,” wrote AIPAC. “Says it all.”
Israel’s U.N. envoy was responding to the secretary-general’s call for a halt to IDF activity in Judea and Samaria.
“He has to say that the end of the war is the release of the hostages,” the grandson of a hostage still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip tells JNS.
“Disseminating misleading or false information … raises serious questions” about the world body’s neutrality, Israel Katz writes to António Guterres.
Guterres says he is “appalled by the dramatic increase and unprecedented scale and intensity” of attacks on children in the Israel-Hamas war.
António Guterres to put state on blacklist of parties committing major violations against children during war.
António Guterres neglected Israeli hostages at first. He then noted them and Hamas’s sexual crimes but followed up with twice as many posts criticizing the Jewish state.
“We are deeply concerned Israel has not done enough to protect humanitarian aid workers or civilians,” said John Kelley, U.S. political minister counselor in New York.
Asked if ISIS grievances equated to Russians in the way U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres talked about a Hamas rationale for killing Israelis, a spokesperson said that was “a bit of an oversimplification.”
“Fasting with you on Ramadan, I am deeply troubled to know so many people in Gaza will not be able to have a proper Iftar,” António Guterres said.
