The News Freedom
Chandigarh, October 25
Israel agreed to a US request to get its air defenses in place to protect US troops in the region ahead of an expected ground invasion into Gaza, U.S. and former Israeli officials said, reported The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
In another significant development, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations is ripping the “horrible views” that UN Secretary General António Guterres expressed at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and is calling for his resignation, as per the Fox News report. Ambassador Gilad Erdan described Guterres’ remarks as “shocking” for stating that the October 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and that the “Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” a report said.
Erdan demanded that Guterres resign, the first time an Israeli ambassador has called for a sitting U.N. secretary-general to step down, an Israeli official confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The Fox News reported that “the shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner,” Erdan posted on social media platform X.
“His statement that, ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomabale (sic). It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!” Erdan said as per a report.
Meanwhile according to media reports, India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, on Tuesday at the Security Council meeting said that “India is deeply concerned at the deteriorating security situation and large-scale loss of civilian lives in the ongoing conflict. The mounting humanitarian crisis is equally alarming,” Ravindra said.
He said the escalation of hostilities in the region has only exacerbated the dire humanitarian situation and has once again underscored the fragile nature of the ceasefire.