2023-12-07 07:01:41
The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, accused this Wednesday the secretary general of the organization, António Guterres, of having reached a “new level of moral turpitude” after the Portuguese activated article 99 of the founding Charter to request a stop the fire in the Gaza Strip to the Security Council.
“The secretary general’s ceasefire call is actually a call to maintain Hamas’ reign of terror in Gaza,” Erdan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The Israeli added that Guterres’ words “only prolong the fighting in Gaza, because they give hope to the Hamas terrorists that the war will end and that they will be able to survive.”
The Israeli Foreign Minister also spoke out against the UN Secretary General, who in a message on X He assured that “his request to activate Article 99 and the call for a ceasefire in Gaza constitute support for the terrorist organization Hamas”.
It is the first time since his mandate began in 2017 that Guterres has invoked Article 99, which states that the Secretary-General “may draw the attention of the Council to any matter that in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of peace and security in the world.” “.
The Portuguese politician made his decision “given the magnitude of the loss of human life in Israel in such a short period of time,” referring to the two months of war that today they have been fulfilled since Hamas launched several attacks on October 7 By surprise to Israel, he killed 1,200 people and took 200 hostages.
Since then, more than 16,200 people have died and some 7,000 are under rubble in the Gaza Strip, completely besieged by Israeli forces and subjected to constant bombing, according to figures from the Ministry of Health in the Strip.
Erdan has been one of the most critical Israeli officials of the role the United Nations has taken since the conflict began, calling for Guterres to resign and announcing that Israel would begin denying visas to United Nations representatives.
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