Israel to stop issuing automatic visas to United Nations staff A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told EFE that he made this move in retaliation for the reaction of secretary-general António Guterres and some institutions of the organization to the Hamas attack on Israeli territory on October 7.
“We will not automatically grant visas due to the reaction of the UN, the Secretary-General and some organizations to the October 7 massacre, their legitimization of terrorism and their silence on the suffering of Israeli citizens,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said. The official stated that visas would be issued after a “case-by-case” study.
The Islamist group Hamas carried out a major attack against Israel on October 7 that ignited the war, involving launching rockets and infiltrating nearly 3,000 militiamen who simultaneously attacked Israel. They murdered approximately 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 in towns near Gaza.
On 24 October, Guterres told the UN Security Council that “Hamas attacks do not occur in a vacuum.” “The Palestinian people have been subjected to a suffocating occupation for 56 years,” he said, referring to Israel’s occupation and colonization of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967; This is against international law and, according to human rights groups, a reality of apartheid.
Palestinians “have seen their land continually destroyed by settlements and subjected to violence, their economy strangled, their people displaced and their homes destroyed. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight are fading,” he added.
However, Guterres said, “The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the heinous attacks of Hamas. And these heinous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” Israel’s relentless air, land and sea attacks against Israel Gaza Strip It caused almost 21,000 deaths, 55,000 injuries and 1.9 million displacement.
On December 2, Israel demanded the resignation of UN Women Director Sami Bahous of Jordan, believing that he took a “shameful” stance on the Hamas attack by failing to properly condemn gender crimes committed by the militants.
This came a day after the agency “unequivocally rejected Hamas’ brutal attacks on Israel” and stated that “numerous accounts of gender-based brutality and sexual violence during these attacks” should be investigated.
on November 22 Israel blames the UN Security Council UNICEF and UN Women will systematically side with Hamas and ignoring the suffering or data on victims provided to them by the Israeli Government.