The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterreshas confessed “shocked” by the “misrepresentation” from the speech delivered on Tuesday before the Security Council and, after the wave of criticism by Israeli authorities, which has included a resignation requesthas stressed that at no time did he “justify” the “acts of terrorism” carried out by Hamas on October 7.

“It’s false. I did the opposite“, he said this Wednesday during a brief statement without questions before the media, in which he cited some excerpts from his speech to remember that he condemned the actions of Hamas without palliatives, even emphasizing that no historical “grievance” could serve as an excuse. for the massacres committed.

“I think that it is necessary to make things clearespecially out of respect for the victims and their families,” Guterres emphasized, without ever alluding to Israel or the measures it has adopted in retaliation for his words, which include a refusal to grant visas to the international organization’s envoys. .

On Tuesday, Guterres opened the Security Council session dedicated to escalating tensions in the Middle East with a speech in which denounced the “clear” violations of International Law and distributed criticism between both parties. The head of the UN directly condemned the Hamas attacks, but also recalled the historical roots of the conflict.

Thus, he noted, for example, that the “horrible” attacks that began more than two weeks ago “They didn’t come out of nowhere“, given that “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation“, in a context in which “their hopes of achieving a political solution are fading.”