Tag: Israel Katz

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 12:49 UTC

  Guterres becomes persona non grata in Israel

  

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was declared persona non grata Wednesday by Israel after failing to condemn Tuesday's rocket attack by Iran, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on X. The former Portuguese Prime Minister has thus been banned “from entering the country,” Katz explained.

• Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:56 UTC

  Iran's Foreign Ministry says BA Court ruling against Tehran was politically motivated

  

  Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Naser Kanani said Thursday that a ruling by a Buenos Aires court that found his country to be behind terrorist attacks against a building of the Jewish community in the Argentine capital in 1994 was “politically motivated.” He also said the decision lacked any legal basis and merely followed the “new political project” undertaken by the “enemies of Iran.”

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 15:18 UTC

  Lula, “persona non grata” in Israel

  

  The government of Israel has declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva “persona non grata” for likening the ongoing military deployment in the Gaza Strip to the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced Monday. The South American leader “will not be welcome in Israel until he recants.”