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.

  • @dasgoatEnglish
    1•8 months ago

    Not without consent of the body with, undoubtedly, vetos for the US. Which the US will then use to shield Israel from anything and everything as it has many, many times before.