Israel calls UN officials “accomplices” of Hamas’ strategies and announces it will no longer issue automatic visas
An Israeli government spokesman said visas would no longer be automatically granted to UN staff. Eylon Levy explained that they will consider visa applications on a casebycase basis.
“For a long time, international officials have shifted blame to Israel to hide the fact that they are covering up Hamas’ actions,” he said during a press conference this Wednesday.
Levy also criticized the United Nations for failing to condemn the operations of the Palestinian group, which Israel accuses of operating near hospitals in the Gaza Strip and diverting humanitarian supplies to support civilians in the area. Hamas has so far rejected both allegations.
The spokesman called the move “an update on the United Nations’ deeply problematic involvement in this conflict.” “They were complicit in Hamas’s strategy of using human shields,” he stressed.
As CNN reminds, it is worth noting that Israel had already revoked the visa of Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator. “Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and the horrific abuse and rape, for using Gaza citizens as human shields, but instead condemned Israel, a democratic country “The country that protects its citizens cannot serve in the United Nations and cannot enter Israel,” the Israeli foreign minister wrote at the time in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Several UN officials have condemned the October 7 Hamas attacks while calling for a ceasefire agreement.
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