cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7945843

Israel has said the “time has come to teach the United Nations a lesson” by banning UN officials from visiting the country – in a row over remarks from secretary-general Antonio Guterres that the deadly 7 October attack by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of the Palestinians.

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    1 year ago

    “What occupation?”

    • Israel

    “Please help us, we’re literally dying, we are losing everything we have and we have nowhere to turn, please we’re begging you…”

    • Palestinians

    “IsRaEl HaS tHe RiGhT tO dEfEnD iTsElF”

    • Israel apologists

    “Israel did what? We didn’t see anything.”

    • the UN