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Israel defends decision to ban UN chief

Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz defends his decision to ban United Nations Secretary General António Guterres from the country.

Katz, was responding to a joint letter from 100 UN member nations protesting the move. They expressed their “full support and confidence in the Secretary General and his work”.

Katz Guterres was banned from Israel because he refused to condemn Iran’s recent missile attack against Israel along with “his antisemitic and anti-Israeli behaviour".