Israel’s ambassador to the UN said his country had been added to a UN blacklist of sexual violence in conflict zones, alongside Hamas.
“This is a political decision! Disconnected from the facts and reality!” Danny Danon said in a post on X, referring to a report due to be published soon. Danon was informed about it during a phone call with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a post on X by the Israeli mission to the UN said.
In Guterres’ annual report to the Security Council on conflict-related sexual violence, published in August last year, he put Israel and Russia “on notice” that they could this year be added to the list of parties “credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence.”
