Despite a serious report that included testimony and evidence from the representative of the UN Secretary General on the issue of sexual violence during the conflict regarding Hamas crimes, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, decided not to include Hamas in the black list of entities suspected by the UN of committing Acts of sexual violence during conflict.
In the report he authored, the UN Secretary-General refrained from attributing responsibility to Hamas, even though the report by representative Premila Patten explicitly acknowledged the connection between the terrorist organization’s attack on October 7 and the acts of sexual violence that were carried out in a systematic and deliberate manner. In addition to that, unlike the Patten report, which stated that there is a real and substantial fear of continued sexual abuse of the Israeli abductees and abductees and demanded their immediate release, UN Secretary-General Guterres refrained from making an explicit call in this spirit.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem said in response that Israel expresses deep disgust at the publication of UN Secretary-General Gutierrez’s report on sexual violence during conflict. The ministry also said that “the Secretary-General’s report is another failure in the series of failures of the various UN institutions which have so far failed to condemn Hamas even once and add sin to crime, refusing to publicly declare that Hamas slaughtered, raped, sexually assaulted and kidnapped Women, old men and children on October 7th and after, is indeed a terrorist organization. This report is a sad and tragic proof of the functioning of the UN and its leader since October 7th, and it is an impetus for terrorism and violence.”
Foreign Minister Israel Katz reacted strongly to the words: “UN Secretary General Guterres today officially sided with Ansi and the Hamas murderers, when he refused to assign responsibility for the serious sexual crimes that appear in the Patten report. The Secretary General of the United Nations behaves like the collaborators with the most murderous regimes in human history, and I am convinced that if the crimes of the Nazi regime had come up for discussion during his tenure, he would have refused to denounce them as well if his political interest required it.
Guterres turned the UN into an extreme anti-Semitic and anti-Israel institution and his tenure will be remembered as the darkest in the organization’s history.”
Before the publication of the report, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, sent a letter to Secretary-General Guterres in which he reacted angrily to his decision not to include Hamas in the blacklist. “I would like to bring to your attention Israel’s disappointment and shock regarding the fact that Hamas, the instigator and perpetrator of the massacre on October 7, including multiple acts of extreme sexual violence, will not be mentioned in the list of suspected perpetrators of or responsibility for patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict situations Armed on the agenda of the Security Council,'” Erdan wrote.
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