NEW YORK: The United Nations headquarters in New York should ‘wiped off the face of the earth,’ Israeli Ambassador to UN Gilad Erdan said Tuesday.
‘The UN building should be closed and wiped off from the face of the earth,” Erdan told Israeli daily Maariv in an interview.
“This building, which may look nice from the outside, is actually twisted and distorted,” he said.
The Israeli daily pointed out that this was not the first time for Erdan to attack the United Nations.
Last month, Erdan was quoted saying: “We must take unprecedented steps against the UN, such as closing the UN compound in Jerusalem and expelling the heads of the agencies stationed in Israel, to send a clear and unequivocal message that the continued bias and exploitation of the UN against Israel will come at a price.”
Seeing himself leading the Likud Party after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Erdan has previously criticized UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Erdan’s remarks came
as Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 40,173 Palestinians and injuring over 92,857 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Source: Palestine
News and Information Agency – WAFA
