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.

  • @[email protected]English
    80•1 year ago

    If you don’t let international observers into the country, or the war zone, there’s nothing to observe, therefore anybody who says a war crime happens is obviously lying. Because they couldn’t have possibly observed it

    It’s the perfect political strategy.

    It worked so well before…

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-nations-and-apartheid-timeline-1946-1994

    1955 The South African Government withdrew from membership in the UNESCO in protest against UNESCO’s activities against racial discrimination.