UN chief slams social media comparison of Gaza deaths: ‘lost all moral standing’

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The post received a community rating, which allows users to provide additional context for “posts that may be misleading”, pointing to at least two conflicts with a significant death toll equal to or greater than the death toll in the Gaza Strip – Syrian Civil War. and the war in Yemen, which has left hundreds of thousands dead.

An Israeli official told Fox News Digital: “The Secretary General has lost all moral standing. He deliberately ignores the thousands of civilians killed in conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, while he continues to defame Israel. Shame on him. “

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A spokesperson for the secretary-general told Fox News Digital that Guterres stood by his comments, initially noting that Guterres was responding to the “large number of civilian casualties reported so far in Gaza” and argued that the figures cited in the community memo “are still below the more than 11,000 deaths recorded so far in Gaza” and the Yemeni casualties “predated the Secretary General’s term in office.”

The spokesperson then asserted that Guterres “was clearly talk about victims among children“, noting the comment which followed a list of the number of child victims in various conflicts in recent years.

“Although he used the word civilians in the last sentence, what he was saying and the statistics he provided were about child deaths,” the spokesperson said.

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Guterres also stressed in his comments that he would not “discuss the accuracy of the figures published by the de facto authorities in Gaza.”

Guterres took office in 2017 and that year the Syrian civil war left more than 10,000 civilians dead. The war in Yemen, which began before Guterres came to power, has claimed more than 377,000 lives, with the UN reporting that one child died every seven minutes in the Yemen conflict in 2022 alone – although this includes deaths from starvation or disease.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry reported that more than 11,000 people have died in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its bombing campaign in response to the October 7 terrorist attack that killed 1,200 people.

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The ministry’s figure does not distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths, nor does it specify how they die – much like the UN figures for Yemen. The U.N. maintains that the ministry’s figures have withstood scrutiny in past conflicts and have been largely proven accurate.

Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, blasted Guterres for his comment, writing on -Israeli Secretary General.”

Erdan called for Guterres to resign after losing “all morality and impartiality”, saying Guterres “distorts and distorts reality”. Guterres rejected the claim, insisting he “unequivocally condemned” the October 7 attack and did not in any way condone terrorist acts.

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“I clearly state, and I quote, that the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify Hamas’s attacks,” he said in his defense.

The secretary-general’s spokesperson did not respond to questions about allegations of anti-Israel bias at the UN.