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Guterres rejects Israeli allegations and receives support from the federal government
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“I don’t feel like calls for resignation are appropriate.”
The federal government expresses its confidence in UN Secretary General Guterres in the dispute with the Israeli government. After Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan called for his resignation, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit emphasized that Guterres enjoyed trust.
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“The UN Secretary General naturally has the trust of the federal government,” says government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit about the dispute between Israel and Guterres. The latter now emphasized that he had not justified Hamas’s acts of terror.
In view of Israel’s harsh criticism of its Middle East statements, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “shocked” by their supposedly “distorted presentation”. This is “as if I were justifying Hamas’ terrorist attacks,” Guterres said on Wednesday in New York. “That is not true. The opposite is the case.”
It was “necessary to clarify the matter, especially out of respect for the victims and their families,” Guterres continued. Rather, he spoke of the “grievances of the Palestinian people”. He made it clear that these “abuses cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas.”
The federal government expressed its confidence in Guterres after his controversial statements on the Middle East conflict. “The UN Secretary General naturally has the trust of the federal government,” said government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit in Berlin on Wednesday. The situation is very charged at the moment, Hebestreit added, but calls for resignation are not appropriate at the moment.
The spokesman for Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said that he “basically does not evaluate” the statements made by a Secretary General of the United Nations. At the same time, he emphasized the federal government’s solidarity with Israel: “We stand closely and unwaveringly at Israel’s side.”
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At the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Guterres once again strongly condemned the Hamas attack on Israel. But he also said that the attacks by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization “did not occur in a vacuum.” The Palestinians have suffered from “suffocating occupation” for 56 years.
Israel’s government reacted angrily to the statement. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attacked Guterres and accused him of living in a different world. Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan later called on the Secretary General to resign. The German-Israeli Society (DIG) called on the federal government to take a clear stand for Israel in the dispute with Guterres.
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