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An Israeli official appears to have gotten a little ahead of himself with an unprecedented sideswipe at a longstanding critic of the Middle Eastern country’s conduct amid the ongoing conflict.
“Today, I have declared UN Secretary-General [António Guterres] persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced in a statement posted to X on Wednesday.
He added that the decision had been made for Guterres’ failure to “unequivocally condemn” Iran’s recent aerial bombardment of Israel, as well as the senior UN official being “yet to denounce the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7.”
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