By David Gritten BBC News
Israel has demanded that the UN’s secretary general retract comments he made about the Gaza war and apologise.
António Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council on Tuesday that he condemned unequivocally Hamas’s deadly attacks in Israel two weeks ago but that they “did not happen in a vacuum”.
Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan accused him of “justifying terrorism” and called for his immediate resignation.
Indeed that hasn’t been effective for us. But we’re going to try again by funding Al-Qaeda in Syria. Maybe it will work differently this time.