United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s recent remarks about civilian deaths in Gaza have sparked a furious fact-checking response from social media users. During a press conference on Monday, Guterres stated, “We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been Secretary-General.”
The comment was posted on the official U.N. News account on the social media platform X, eliciting a “community note” on the platform, which allows users to provide context to potentially misleading posts. The community note highlighted conflicts with higher death tolls than Gaza, specifically referencing the Syrian civil war and the Yemen War. Both conflicts have seen civilian death tolls in the hundreds of thousands, far surpassing the figures in Gaza.
Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gilad Erdan ripped into Guterres, writing, “Short memory? I think not. More likely that it’s the regular bias and anti-Israel approach of the secretary-general.”
Guterres, in his comments, had avoided discussing the accuracy of numbers provided by Hamas in Gaza. Since he took over as UN secretary general, the Syrian civil war saw over 10,000 civilian deaths in 2017 alone. The Yemen War, predating his term, has resulted in over 377,000 deaths, with a U.N. report stating that one child died every seven minutes in Yemen in 2022, including non-combat-related deaths.
The Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, reported over 11,000 deaths in Gaza since Israel’s response to the October 7 terrorist attack that killed 1,200. However, these figures do not distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths – and they’re almost certainly inflated.
“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been Secretary General”- UN chief @antonioguterres pic.twitter.com/cj3EZgbSoE
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) November 20, 2023
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One replied:
“Syria – 500,000 dead, Yemen – 377,000 dead, Afghanistan – 176,000 dead, Darfur – 300,000 dead, Iraq – 400,000 dead, Ukraine – 500,000 dead, Congo – 860,000. These are data from the United Nations, for your information.”
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“omg, you really don’t know what’s going on in Sudan right now, do you?” With reference to non-stop reports and testimonies about a widespread massacre of the civilian population under the auspices of the civil war in the country. Another surfer wrote: “You are a shameless liar, here are the casualty figures in the war in Syria since 2017 when you became the UN Secretary General.”
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Let alone the UN parroting Hamas fascist ministry’s info or numbers.
The most UNtrustworthy organization UNder the sUN. They will do anything to UNdercut Israel. They should be called for what is is: UNtruthful.
Why is anyone surprised? UNRWA, a UN agency, helped Hamas site their military facilities and tunnels within their buildings. They also helped them create their hateful curriculum in the schools. The UN is Hamas and he is trying to defend them as much as possible.
Totally UNethical.
If United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would tell the truth about Muslims or Islam or Jihadist terrorists, then they would literally KILL HIM, and might kill his family also.
“While a handful of European UN employees act as the public face of UNRWA, the actual agency is run by Hamas operatives who control its schools, using them to recruit and to store weapons. The union representing UNRWA employees is controlled by Hamas and its employees implement Hamas policies.”
SOURCE: How Trump Started a Civil War between Hamas and a UN Agency
by Daniel Greenfield, 2019 August 16 JihadWatch dot org
In May 2018, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said:
“UNRWA has become part of the problem…
It provides the ammunition to continue the conflict.
For as long as Palestinians live in refugee camps,
they want to return to their homeland.”
SOURCE: Swiss Funding Freeze in Wake of UNRWA Corruption Allegations Piles on Palestinian Refugee Agency’s Woes by Ben Cohen, 2019/7/30 algemeiner dot com
“UNRWA employees have been caught praising anti-Jewish violence,
and, per a 2015 UN investigation, [that] the organization’s facilities
were used by terrorist groups to launch and store rockets
during the 2014 Israel-Hamas War.”
SOURCE: The Media’s Unredeemable ‘Reporting’ on UNRWA
by Sean Durns 2018/9/22 JNS dot org
Secretary General Guttermouth.