UN secretary general António Guterres said he was shocked by ‘misrepresentations’ of a speech he made on Tuesday at the UN security council in which he said Hamas’s attack on Israel ‘did not happen in a vacuum’. Israel called for his resignation after he made the speech and its ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, accused him of ‘justifying terrorism’.
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Defending his remarks in the security council in a statement on Wednesday Guterres said: ‘Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians or the launching of rockets on civilian targets.’ He added: ‘I believe it was necessary to set the record straight.’
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