My decision to ban UN Chief from entering Israel won’t change – Minister

The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz has said the decision to declare United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres as persona non grata and barring him from entering the country will not change.

Israeli Minister who made his stand known on X revealed that a poll found that 87 percent of the Israeli public supports this decision, saying if Guterres continue seeking support from UN member states, his decision will not change.
The Minister declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as persona non grata and barred him from entering Israel due to his failure to condemn Iran’s missile attack on Israel, as well as his antisemitic and anti-Israel conduct.

According to him, “I’ve declared UN Secretary -General @antonioguterres as persona non grata and barred him from entering Israel due to his failure to condemn Iran’s missile attack on Israel, as well as his antisemitic and anti-Israel conduct.

Katz said, “A poll found that 87% of the Israeli public supports this decision. Guterres can continue seeking support from UN member states, but the decision will not change”.
Media Bypass News reports that the Minister had claimed the UN Chief is yet to denounce massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7, nor has he led any efforts to declare them a terrorist organization.

Katz accused Guterres for backing terrorists, rapists, murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, adding that the UN Chief also now backing Iran, the mothership of global terror which he said it will be remembered as a stain on the history of the United Nations.

The Iranian missile launches came after Israeli ground troops launched raids into Lebanon and its warplanes bombed from the skies, put Israeli soldiers against Hezbollah, Iran’s best-armed proxy force in the Middle East.
It marks the biggest escalation of regional warfare since fighting erupted in Gaza a year ago, and follows weeks of intense airstrikes that have decapitated Hezbollah by killing most of its top leaders. More than thousand Lebanese have been killed and a million have fled their homes.

Iran, which sponsors Hizbollah, has vowed to retaliate against Israel, raising fears that war could spill across borders throughout the region, despite efforts by the United States, Israel’s closest and most powerful ally, to contain it.

Iran first launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, 2024 but few of its projectiles reached their targets but many were shot down by United State-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.