JERUSALEM – The Secretary Normal of the United Nations, António Guterres, is going through a barrage of criticism for failing to explicitly condemn the Hamas terrorist motion for its murders of 1 American and 5 Israeli residents on Saturday.
Israel Protection Forces have been trying to rescue the six hostages held by Hamas, together with Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, within the tunnel system beneath Gaza’s Rafah metropolis, however as an alternative discovered all six murdered by the hands of the phobia group. The Times of Israel, quoting Israel’s ministry of well being, reported that the hostages had been murdered between Thursday and Friday morning.
Guterres wrote on X, “I’ll always remember my assembly final October with the mother and father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and different hostage households. At the moment’s tragic information is a devastating reminder of the necessity for the unconditional launch of all hostages and an finish to the nightmare of conflict in Gaza.”
Guterres’ put up on X sparked criticism from Israel’s former U.N. ambassador Gilad Erdan for taking part in down the severity of the murders by labeling the information as merely “tragic” and never condemning Hamas outright.
Guterres’ spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital press question.
“You’re shredding the UN constitution” says Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan whereas talking throughout a particular session of the UN Normal Meeting concerning the Palestinian bid for full membership to the UN, at UN headquarters in New York Metropolis on Could 10, 2024. A veto from the US throughout an April 18, 2024 UN Safety Council assembly beforehand foiled the Palestinians’ drive for full UN membership. (Photograph by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photograph by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Erdan, who solely left his position as ambassador final month, informed Fox Information Digital , “The Secretary Normal not solely has Israeli blood on his fingers, however he has American blood on his fingers too. Since his “fig leaf” assembly with the hostage households, he has carried out ZERO to assist them. He might have demanded visits from the Purple Cross, he might have condemned Hamas and held them to account, however as an alternative he spent his time criticizing the law-abiding democracy of Israel as an alternative of the ISIS-like terrorists.”
Erdan continued “It is a new low, even for the Secretary Normal. Even as we speak, he wouldn’t condemn the evil Hamas terrorists, however after all, you’ll be able to’t condemn what you assist. Hamas terrorists can depend on a morally bankrupt Secretary Normal for his or her survival whose solely actions are meaningless photo-ops with hostage households, and criticism of Israel, whereas harmless hostages are being executed in chilly blood.”
Hundreds of Israelis gathered in Ra’anana to pay their closing respects to Almog Sarusi. Hamas kidnapped the 26-year-old sound and lightweight technician from the Nova Music Competition and killed him in captivity. Israeli troopers recovered his physique together with 5 others on Saturday. (Yossi Zeliger/TPS-IL)
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the president of Human Rights Voices, informed Fox Information Digital that “U.N. Secretary-Normal Guterres despicably now turns the cold-blooded homicide of Israeli hostages by Palestinian terrorists right into a win for the terrorists. He refuses to call the perpetrators. And equates their horrible deliberate execution with Israel’s effort to launch them.”
A terrorist from Hamas takes half in a army parade. Three Palestinian migrants caught on the southern border have been detained after they have been allegedly discovered to have terrorist ties. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photograph)
She added “The United Nations high equipment – its Safety Council, Normal Meeting, and Human Rights Council – has by no means particularly condemned Hamas. U.N. denial of the proper of Israeli self-defense and its promotion of violence in opposition to the individuals of Israel has by no means been extra clear. No quantity of U.N. photo-ops with hostages or their households will erase the fact of the U.N.’s insidious position within the nightmare of conflict in Israel for seven a long time.”
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TOPSHOT – U.N. Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres speaks throughout a United Nations Safety Council assembly on Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York Metropolis on December 8, 2023. Guterres stated on December 8, 2023, that Hamas’ brutality might by no means justify “collective punishment” of Palestinians as Israel presses its marketing campaign in opposition to Hamas within the Gaza Strip. (Photograph by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
In October, Erdan urged Guterres to resign after he claimed that the top of the world physique had urged that Israel was guilty for Hamas’ October 7 bloodbath that resulted within the murders of almost 1,200 individuals, together with greater than 30 Americans, and the kidnapping of over 250 individuals. Guterres got here out to refute Erdan’s fees, however the United Nations has lengthy been seen by critics as a bastion of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
A bloodied handprint stains a wall in a Nir Oz home after Hamas terrorists attacked this kibbutz days earlier close to the border of Gaza. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Photographs)
On Guterres’ watch, a lot of U.N. businesses have been embroiled in scandals the place they confirmed sympathy for Hamas. The scandal-plagued United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA) is facing a lawsuit in Manhattan for its alleged position in aiding the terrorist motion Hamas’ slaughter on October 7.
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Hillel Neuer, the manager director of UN Watch, lambasted Guterres’ choice to not title the perpetrators of the mass homicide of the six individuals. “Hamas simply murdered six Israeli and American hostages by taking pictures them within the head. Why can’t you say so? Why can’t you condemn them?,” wrote Neuer in a put up on X.
Hamas is just not on the United Nations’ record of terrorist organizations. Fox Information Digital despatched press queries to Israel’s present U.N. ambassador and the nation’s overseas ministry.
