People waving the Israeli flags as they protest against Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres outside the UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, October 25, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
GENEVA — Israeli officials are going back on their promised refusal to grant entry visas to U.N. officials.
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Martin Griffiths, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, tweeted Monday that he was in Israel — less than a week after Israel’s U.N. ambassador said it had “refused” to grant Griffiths a visa.
Israeli officials had expressed outrage over comments last Wednesday by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants “did not happen in a vacuum.”
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, accused Guterres on Israel’s
