Criticism Of Secretary General Guterres, Ambassador Danon: Unreasonable UN Continues To Condemn Israel

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon. (Twitter/@dannydanon)

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations criticized Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' criticism of the Israeli attack targeting Hamas operators in a school transformed into a shelter in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, which Guterres said killed six UN aid agency staff for Palestine.

"What is 'unacceptable', (Guterres), is the fact that you refuse to admit the reality and continue to distort it," Ambassador Danny Danon wrote on Twitter.

"It does not make sense that the United Nations continues to condemn Israel in a just war against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human shields," he continued.

"I suggest you thoroughly investigate who these terrorists are, what they have done in the past and what atrocities they did when they were removed before making a statement," added Danon, without directly discussing UNRWA staff issues.

As previously reported, UN Secretary-General Guterres said the lack of accountability for the killing of UN staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip was "completely unacceptable."

Nearly 300 humanitarian aid workers, more than two-thirds of whom were UN staff, were also killed during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, according to the United Nations. Secretary General Guterres said there must be effective investigations and accountability for their deaths.

"We have a court, but we see that court decisions are not respected, and this kind of uncertainty of accountability is completely unacceptable and also requires serious reflection," Secretary General Guterres told Reuters.

The war in Gaza dominated, which began just two weeks after leaders left New York, following last year's meeting when Palestinian Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and held about 250 people hostage in a cross-border attack on Israel, according to Israeli tallies.

Drawing Israel's retaliation against Hamas in Gaza, which has so far killed at least 41,118 Palestinians and injured 95,125 others, according to Gaza's health ministry, Secretary General Guterres said there had been "a very dramatic violation of international humanitarian law and absolutely no effective protection for civilians."

"What happened in Gaza is completely unacceptable," he said.