Israel has declared UN Secretary António Guterres "persona non grata".He will not be able to enter the country

Israel's foreign minister said Guterres "supports terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran."

• Israel has accused UN Secretary General António Guterres of failing to condemn Iran's attack.
• Guterres was declared “persona non grata”, effectively treated as an enemy of Israel.
• In recent months, the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was also declared "persona non grata".

António Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, was declared "persona non grata" from Israel.The announcement came from the Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, who claimed that Guterres did not condemn the attackIran against Israel launched on October 1st.

That of the “persona non grata” is one diplomatic ploy which is usually used against ambassadors of enemy countries, or against dictators and involves, in fact, a ban on the "persona non grata" from traveling to the country in question.The use for a UN secretary general is actually new, but for months Israel seeks to discredit the organization and its secretary, who have repeatedly condemned the genocide underway in Gaza Strip.

Guterres banned from entering Israel

For the Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, “supports terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran.”And for this reason from now on will be considered  "persona non grata" into the country, with a de facto ban on entry.

He declared this in recent hours, maintaining that Guterres has not taken positions of condemnation towards the missile attack carried out byIran against Israel on October 1.The missiles, launched by Iran in retaliation against the Israeli military offensive in Lebanon and the killing of the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, had mostly been intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, causing little damage to some military infrastructure.

Israel's precedents, and beyond

Having heard the news, Guterres he underlined that he had already condemned the first Iranian missile attack against Israel last April and reiterated his condemnation of the attack on October 1st.

The definition of “persona non grata” is the last chapter of discredit campaign that Israel has been pursuing for months against the United Nations and its secretary general.Guterres has repeatedly condemned The Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, calling for a ceasefire, and for this reason he ended up on the list of people disliked by the Israeli government, which went so far as to define the UN as "an anti-Semitic organisation".

To understand the scope of the definition of "persona non grata" for Guterres, just think of those who are usually branded in this way.Ambassadors of enemy countries, dictators or politicians close to states with which one is in conflict.An example that's it Of Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator who died in 2019 after decades of rule, who had been declared “persona non grata” in the European Union and the United States.Or that of Silvio Berlusconi, declared persona non grata by Ukraine in 2015 after his visit to Crimea and for his closeness and friendship with the Russian president Vladimir Putin.As regards Israel, in recent months the president of Brazil had already been declared "persona non grata", Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, always close to the Palestinian people.