JERUSALEM — Israel announced this Tuesday that it will stop automatically granting visas to United Nations employees, considering that the organization is being a “complicit partner” of Hamas by not condemning the tactics that the terrorist group is allegedly using during the conflict.
Spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Eylon Levy, accused the HIM of covering up Hamas’ tactics by not condemning the attacks it is directing from hospitals, or the theft of humanitarian aid.
“By not condemning Hamas for hijacking aid, by not condemning it for waging war from hospitals, they have been complicit partners in Hamas’ human shield strategy,” Levy said in a video posted on his X account.
Therefore, Levy announced that Israel will analyze each of the visa applications that arrive from the United Nations on a case-by-case basisa decision that further erodes a relationship, which began to become cloudy when Secretary General António Guterres toughened his message in the face of the increase in deaths in Gaza.
“Israel will stop working with those who cooperate with the Hamas terror regime’s propaganda machine and urges its partners to act in the same way,” the Israeli spokesman concluded.
This month, Israel canceled the visa of the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings, arguing that she had not sufficiently condemned Hamas.
Source: With information from Europa Press
