Israeli foreign minister slams UN, calls it 'rotten, anti-Israel, and antisemitic body'

Israel's overseas curate slammed the United Nations connected Monday arsenic the organization's tribunal opened a proceeding connected Israel's ineligible responsibilities successful Gaza.

Gidon Sa’ar said that the U.N. is simply a "rotten, anti-Israel, and antisemitic body," which ought to beryllium connected proceedings for covering up panic affiliates wrong the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA), who helium said participated successful the attacks of Oct. 7 2023. "The U.N. indispensable reply for these crimes," Sa’ar said.

He told reporters that Israel had decided "not to instrumentality portion successful this circus," which is intended to deprive Israel of its "most basal close to support itself."

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The IDF and ISA eliminated Hamas terrorist, Nukhba commander, Mohammad Abu Itiwi. He was progressive successful the execution and abduction of Israeli civilians connected October 7th. Itiwi worked for UNRWA according to the Israelis. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

"Secretary-General [Antonio] Guterres is personally accountable. He knew what was going connected successful UNRWA. He knew precise good and helium knows precise well. Israel repeatedly warned him. He did nothing. He went retired of his mode to whitewash UNRWA. He continues to screen up the crimes of UNRWA and its violent employees."

Jewish News Syndicate reported that Sa’ar aboriginal presented grounds that 25% of UNRWA unit "were implicated successful violent activity" anterior to Oct. 7, 2023.  Sa’ar said that UNRWA is simply a proxy of the panic radical Hamas.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Guterres’ spokesperson seeking remark connected Sa’ar’s accusations, but did not get a response.

In a connection to the property connected Monday, Guterres' spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told a newsman that helium didn’t "think the Secretary General is simply a large instrumentality of a circus." Calling the presumption to the ICJ "extremely elaborate and precise wide and precise legal," helium besides said that Guterres was "very wide [and] straightforward" erstwhile the U.N. "first revealed the Israeli allegations against UNRWA." Dujarric said that UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini "took highly speedy action" responding to the complaints. 

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Photos released by the Israeli Defense Force amusement 3 individuals that the Israeli subject claims are Hamas terrorists wrong an UNRWA compound successful Rafah. (IDF)

Lazzarini terminated the appointments of immoderate of the UNRWA staffers who participated successful the Oct. 7 attacks.

Dujarric besides noted the "depletion of captious stocks" successful Gaza since Israel blocked each assistance to Gaza successful March successful an effort to unit a ceasefire with Hamas. Not lone is nutrient moving out, but Dujarric said that trauma-related aesculapian supplies, surgical supplies, therapeutic milk, medicines, and different important items are successful abbreviated supply. 

In a connection regarding the ICJ hearings connected April 28, U.N. Legal Counsel Elinor Hammarskjöld outlined the U.N.’s concerns astir Israel’s concern of the Palestinian territories. Referencing the Israeli Knesset’s instrumentality banning UNRWA’s operation, passed successful October 2024, she stated that Israel cannot contradict impartial humanitarian organizations from providing relief, and that concerns astir the impartiality of specified organizations whitethorn not beryllium made unilaterally by an occupying power.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a connection astatine UN Headquarters connected the concern successful the Middle East pursuing the violent onslaught by Hamas connected Israel. He reiterated his interest for civilian lives to beryllium protected, helium thanked Egypt for its assistance via Rafah crossing into Gaza and stated that humanitarian assistance should beryllium delivered to radical of Gaza.  (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hammarskjöld besides said that U.N. premises are "inviolable," per the Geneva Convention, and "immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation, oregon immoderate different signifier of interference." 

In February, however, the State of Israel’s connection connected the ICJ’s proceedings noted assorted incidents that show however UNRWA has violated the guiding principles of "neutrality, impartiality, and independence" mandated by the U.N.

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A subject parade of the Hamas violent enactment earlier the transportation of 4 Israeli pistillate hostages to the Red Cross connected January 25th, 2025. (TPS-IL)

Israel’s connection besides lays retired a assortment of times erstwhile violent organizations "use and exploit UNRWA installations arsenic hideouts and places of refuge" and claims bureau unit "have assisted oregon closed their eyes to terrorists seeking refuge astatine those sites." The U.S. suspended assistance to UNRWA aft learning that immoderate of its members participated successful the Oct. 7 attack. 

On April 24, the U.S. Justice Department determined that UNRWA, arsenic a specialized bureau of the U.N., is not entitled to diplomatic immunity successful the U.S. In a suit filed successful June 2024 successful the Southern District of New York, 100 victims of the Oct. 7 onslaught are seeking $1 cardinal successful damages from UNRWA. Lazzarini is simply a named suspect successful the suit.