Israel continues to react angrily to the statements of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and says that the UN should learn a lesson from this.

The scandal erupted on Tuesday evening after Guterres said that “the attacks by Hamas did not happen out of the blue” and that he was deeply concerned about the “clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are seeing in Gaza”.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called Guterres’ speech “shocking.” “Mr. Secretary General, what world do you live in? Without a doubt, she is not ours,” he wrote on Twitter, calling for her to resign.

Erdan returned with new statements Wednesday morning on Israel’s army radio and said the country would deny visas to UN officials.

“It’s time to teach them a lesson”

“Because of his statements, we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives. We have already denied a visa to Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths,” Erdan told Radio Armata.

“It’s time to teach them a lesson,” he added.

Thus, Israel remains in open conflict with the UN, even though Guterres detailed his position overnight in a post on Platform X.

“The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the terrible attacks of Hamas,” he wrote on the social network, adding, however, that “these terrible attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

Since Tuesday, Israel has called for the immediate resignation of Guterres as UN secretary-general, and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen canceled a meeting he was scheduled to hold with Guterres on Tuesday night.

“I will not meet with the UN Secretary General. After October 7, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped off the face of the earth!” Cohen said.

Israel is also in conflict with UN agencies

Israel is in conflict not only with the UN leader, but also with UN institutions.

The UN agency that provides aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, UNRWA, warned Platform X that it would have to suspend operations on Wednesday night if it did not deliver fuel, and the Israeli military responded by reaching out to Hamas.

The Israeli army responded, also on Platform X, with an image showing fuel tanks in the Palestinian enclave

“They have more than 500,000 liters of fuel. Ask Hamas if you can have it too,” the post read.

The Security Council is debating a resolution on the cessation of hostilities

The United Nations Security Council will debate and vote on Wednesday on a resolution presented by Brazil calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas to allow aid to flow into the Gaza Strip.

The council is then expected to discuss – at the request of the United Arab Emirates and Russia – an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people, according to diplomats quoted by Reuters.

Palestine’s representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, accused Israeli forces of a “massacre” at the hospital and called for an immediate ceasefire. Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, issued a statement blaming the attack on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group.