On Tuesday, before the UN Security Council, Tom Fletcher said Israel was “deliberately and unashamedly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
“Will you act -- decisively -- to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?”
“You had the audacity, in your capacity as a senior UN official, to stand before the Security Council and invoke the charge of genocide without evidence, mandate, or restraint,“ Danon wrote.
He accused Fletcher of offering the Council a “political sermon,“ not a briefing.
Israel's already difficult relations with the United Nations have deteriorated since the unprecedented Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel's subsequent military offensive against the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli authorities have cut ties with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which they accuse of being infiltrated by Hamas. And last October, UN Secretary Antonio Guterres was declared persona non grata in Israel.
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