25/10/2023–|Last updated: 10/25/202312:51 AM (Mecca time)
It was sparked by the statements of the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres In the Security Council, yesterday, Tuesday, Israel was angry, describing him as unqualified to lead the international organization and calling on him to submit his resignation.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that he decided to cancel a meeting with Guterres that was scheduled to be held on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Security Council meeting.
Cohen accused the Secretary-General of the United Nations of being “not qualified” to lead the international organization, calling on him to resign immediately.
The Israeli minister added that Guterres “shows understanding for the mass killing of children, women and the elderly.”
The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, also called on the Secretary-General to resign, and said – in a post on the X platform – that Guterres “showed an understanding of terrorism and murder.”
Guterres had begun the Security Council session – which was held on Tuesday to discuss developments in the Middle East – by denouncing “clear” violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations said that the attacks launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) on the seventh of October this year, “it did not come out of nowhere,” noting that the Palestinian people “have been subjected to stifling occupation for 56 years.”
These statements aroused the ire of the Israeli Foreign Minister, who addressed the Secretary-General sharply in his speech during the same session, saying, “Mr. Secretary-General, what world do you live in?”
The war on the Gaza Strip continues for the 18th day after the Palestinian resistance launched an operation Al-Aqsa flood On the seventh of October this year. The unprecedented Israeli bombing left about 5,800 martyrs, nearly half of whom were children, thousands of wounded, and displaced nearly 1.4 million of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million residents.
More than 1,400 Israelis were killed as a result of resistance attacks, including 308 soldiers and officers, according to what was announced by the occupation army, which also acknowledged the presence of 222 prisoners held by Palestinian factions.