Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday that he had announced the secretary-general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres “persona non grata” in Israel, criticizing him for not condemning Iran’s massive attack on Israel.
“Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil. We are dealing with an anti-Israel secretary general who supports terrorists, rapists and murderers”, said the Israeli Foreign Minister, in yet another move in the deterioration of the Guterres-Israel relationship.
The UN opposes any land invasion by Israeli forces in Lebanon, stressed yesterday tuesday in the evening the representative of Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “We do not want to see any type of ground invasion,” said Stephane Dujarric, repeating the call for “de-escalation”, a ceasefire and expressing concern about the “humanitarian consequences” of the damage in Lebanon.
The more than 10,000 soldiers of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL/Finul) can no longer patrol due to the intensity of the fighting, the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson announced.
