UN chief targets Israel while ignoring Hamas atrocities, UNRWA scandals, and months of Palestinian terror.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reignited fury in Jerusalem after launching another harsh broadside against Israel’s counterterrorism operations in Gaza, claiming the IDF acted with “fundamental wrongness” and “total neglect” for civilian life—comments that Israeli officials blasted as morally bankrupt and detached from reality.
Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference, Guterres asserted that Israel destroyed Gaza while failing to fully eliminate Hamas, declaring that the campaign itself must therefore be flawed. He went further, suggesting there were “strong reasons to believe” war crimes may have been committed.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, responded with searing condemnation:
“The only crime is that more than two years after the October 7 massacre, the Secretary-General has not visited Israel even once—choosing instead to insult Israelis at every opportunity.”
Guterres has become one of the international body’s most persistent critics of Israel’s war against Iran-backed terror groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, often issuing statements that appear to equate defensive Israeli actions with deliberate terrorist aggression.
His record has long drawn outrage.
Weeks after Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered, he claimed the massacre “did not happen in a vacuum”—a phrase widely interpreted as blaming Israel for its own victims. Global condemnation was swift, and Guterres backpedaled, claiming he had been misunderstood.
In October 2023, then-Foreign Minister (now Defense Minister) Israel Katz barred Guterres from entering Israel, citing the Secretary-General’s pattern of excusing Hamas while demonizing Israel.
The trend escalated this year. When Israel resumed targeted strikes in Gaza after Hamas rejected multiple American-backed ceasefire and hostage-release proposals, Guterres said he was “outraged”—yet made no mention of Hamas’s obstruction or its continued rocket fire.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein responded with cutting clarity:
“We are outraged that YOU, Antonio Guterres, are the Secretary-General of the UN.”
Marmorstein noted the Secretary-General conveniently failed to condemn:
- Hamas rejecting two US ceasefire and hostage-release deals accepted by Israel
- Hamas exploiting humanitarian aid to rebuild its terror infrastructure
- UNRWA’s deep entanglement with Hamas, employing terrorists and housing hostages inside its facilities under Guterres’s watch
“Indeed, we are outraged by your moral bankruptcy,” he concluded.
As Israel continues dismantling Iran-backed terror groups, Guterres’s pattern of selective outrage has fueled global frustration with the UN’s credibility—raising the question of whether the organization still stands for justice, or for political appeasement of extremist actors.
