Israel says it has started to refuse visas for UN officials to enter the country as row escalates

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7945843

Israel has said the “time has come to teach the United Nations a lesson” by banning UN officials from visiting the country – in a row over remarks from secretary-general Antonio Guterres that the deadly 7 October attack by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of the Palestinians.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1062·
    1 year ago

    Banning UN officials from visiting the country? Isn’t that usually the first thing the so called villains do in times of war?